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Vaginal Davis: Come On Daughter Save Me
Invisible-Exports is proud to present Come On Daughter Save Me, an exhibition of new work by Vaginal Davis, running concurrently with her performance The Magic Flute at NYU鈥檚 80WSE Gallery.
The gender-queer art-music icon Vaginal Davis likes to say she was 鈥渉atched鈥� in Los Angeles, where she was also 鈥渂orn and braised,鈥� a 鈥渄oyenne of intersexed outsider art.鈥�
A performer, painter, curator, composer, writer, cultural antagonist, film scholar, and erotic provocateur, Davis first gained notoriety in the late 1970s, primarily as frontwoman for various art-punk bands, including the Afro Sisters, inspired by Angela Davis, and as the publisher of two zines: Fertile LaToyah Jackson and its supplement, Shrimp. At the time, Davis worked out of HAG gallery, a DIY exhibition space she founded in her apartment on the Sunset Strip and ran from 1982 to 1989鈥攁 鈥渂otoxed鈥� version of which was staged at Participant, Inc. in New York in 2012. Throughout the 1990s, she began a series of performances as art-historical critique, including 鈥淒ot,鈥� a sort of tribute to Dorothy Parker; 鈥淭he Dona of Dance,鈥� a twisted celebration of modern dance; and 鈥淒esigny Living,鈥� which pays homage to both Noel Coward鈥檚 Design for Living and Jean-Luc Godard鈥檚 Masculine et Feminine.
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Invisible-Exports is proud to present Come On Daughter Save Me, an exhibition of new work by Vaginal Davis, running concurrently with her performance The Magic Flute at NYU鈥檚 80WSE Gallery.
The gender-queer art-music icon Vaginal Davis likes to say she was 鈥渉atched鈥� in Los Angeles, where she was also 鈥渂orn and braised,鈥� a 鈥渄oyenne of intersexed outsider art.鈥�
A performer, painter, curator, composer, writer, cultural antagonist, film scholar, and erotic provocateur, Davis first gained notoriety in the late 1970s, primarily as frontwoman for various art-punk bands, including the Afro Sisters, inspired by Angela Davis, and as the publisher of two zines: Fertile LaToyah Jackson and its supplement, Shrimp. At the time, Davis worked out of HAG gallery, a DIY exhibition space she founded in her apartment on the Sunset Strip and ran from 1982 to 1989鈥攁 鈥渂otoxed鈥� version of which was staged at Participant, Inc. in New York in 2012. Throughout the 1990s, she began a series of performances as art-historical critique, including 鈥淒ot,鈥� a sort of tribute to Dorothy Parker; 鈥淭he Dona of Dance,鈥� a twisted celebration of modern dance; and 鈥淒esigny Living,鈥� which pays homage to both Noel Coward鈥檚 Design for Living and Jean-Luc Godard鈥檚 Masculine et Feminine.
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