"Crazy, Sexy, Cool" exhibition curated by Jennifer Chan

Carrie Gates – New GIF in the “Crazy, Sexy, Cool” exhibition curated by Jennifer Chan

Check out this new web exhibition of .gif art put together by Jennifer Chan called “Crazy, Sexy, Cool”!

 

Here is Jennifer’s sweet headline .gif for the show:

 

And here’s my .gif below!

 

And here’s Jennifer’s artist statement and links to all of the participating artist’s websites, taken from the .dpi website!

Participating Artists

Anthony AntonellisKim AsendorfLaTurbo AvedonAndrew BensonJon Cates (with Ei Jane Janet Lin), Andrea CrespoKate DurbinEmilie GervaisGaby CepedaCarrie GatesShawne HollowayGeorges JacoteyMatthew HillockFaith HollandNick KegeyanRollin LeonardChiara PassaAbsis MinasRea McNamaraSara Ludyrosa menkman, Lorna MillsJaakko PallasvuoTristan StevensBen Valentine

Curator’s Statement

CrazySexyCool is the name of TLC’s second studio album. Selling over 23 million copies worldwide, it was the best-selling album by a girl group in the United States, and the second in the world by a girl group after Spice Girls’ Spice. My favorite TLC member was Lisa Lopes and my favorite Spice Girl was Sporty Spice. In my twelve year old mind, Sporty Spice was the whole package: crazy, sexy, and cool. I was obsessed with finding everything I could know about her.

In the same vein of passion and interest, sex and gender exist heterogeneously on the internet, from the carnal and kinky to the paraphilic and asexual. I invited artists to make gifs of what they thought would challenge or intensify existing ideas of gender on the internet. What I received: tits, yoga, rocking people, dogs, cybergirls, cocksucking, to name a few. It is entirely possible viewers don’t think anything on this reel is crazy, sexy or cool. My mental boner remains flaccid as I scour the web searching for erotic stimuli. Nothing ceases to amaze or titulate anymore; there is constantly too much sexy in the media, in my mind, and at the club. What becomes of interest to me now is less so the content, and more often the artist’s gesture of appropriation as a considered act of celebration or subversion of sexuality and sexiness.

“What are you into?”

-Jennifer Chan

 

– See more at: http://dpi.studioxx.org/en/no/28-gendered-cultures-internet/crazy-sexy-cool#sthash.lwfBe15p.dpuf

 

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