ART Habens Lisa Birke
, 2016, video performance
these as truths because these categorizations make it easier to define our own selves in relation to them. We know where we stand and where we belong, so to speak. This is both a relief and comforting... until one realizes that one is being suppressed or controlled.
In a number of the images from“ House Broken” I take advertisement-style domestic scenes and turn them into surreal tableaus through building on our lexicon of reference points and subtle meanings, manipulating these through our system of language and semiotics. In“ House Bunny” and“ Cougar” I am working with the‘ animalization’ of the female. In Canadian English, a male usually has other words that are associated with his
© Davide Di Saro penis used against him if the intension is
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