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Decatur, 2016
| Download | Buy CD Comprised largely of sultry, torchy cover songs, Decatur hails directly from the melancholy streets of New Orleans. Less challenging in subject matter/language than CFR’s albums Cold Front or Keep Going, Decatur is a crowd pleasing, atmospheric marvel noted for a … ContinueDecatur, 2016
Keep Going, 2015
| Download | Buy CD CFR’s inarguable coming of age project, Keep Going is an aurally pleasing soft rock album about patriarchy, rape culture, and heartbreak. Solidly rooted and lyrical, these songs illustrate the direct acknowledgement and rejection of a previous life of amatonormative struggle … ContinueKeep Going, 2015
Road Life
THE BEGINNING As has happened to many before and since, I officially stopped being able to afford Seattle, my home of 17 years, as a small (massage) business owner around 2009. By 2014, remaining in or even near the emerald city long-term had become an … ContinueRoad Life
Zita The Aerialist
Courtnee Fallon Rex as Zita the Aerialist from Paul Hawxhurst on Vimeo. Performed June 9, 2010 for “There must be something in the Air”, a benefit for Versatile Arts. Music from the Batman Begins soundtrack by Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard. Video footage courtesy of Block My … ContinueZita The Aerialist
I don’t like being raped; Apparently, that makes me a weirdo
Iconic “romantic” image: of a WWII vet sexually assaulting a stranger by kissing them through observable physical resistance (check the hand) and atmosphere of non-consent. Note: this piece of writing has seen many iterations and formats. If parts of this work seem vaguely familiar it … ContinueI don’t like being raped; Apparently, that makes me a weirdo
Birthrights (18+ only)
Birthrights is a photography installation project by Courtnee Papastathis which explores erotic female transition, and the uncomfortable collision of multiple factors (physical, emotional, social) that contribute to the profoundly transformative experience of birth and motherhood, particularly in America.
Women from different backgrounds and timelines are interviewed about their first pregnancy. From that interview, a short phrase to embody their first thoughts when they awoke after giving birth is chosen.
As well, we choose a part of their body to focus on for the image, either because that part was the one which has most changed physically/visually since pregnancy, or is the part in which their relationship has changed the most since the experience of giving birth.
The images are an intentional objectification of the mother. They are abstract, dark, desaturated, and subtlety highlight the bodies ‘flaws’, speaking both to the often hidden trauma and horror many women face in motherhood (which is not represented in typical peachy/soft pregnancy photography), as well as their erasure from part of a both conscious and subconscious value system of a society infected with a superficial and unattainable beauty standard. … ContinueBirthrights (18+ only)
How Art Saved My Life (HASML), 2011
Vita Arts Presents: How Art Saved My Life (HASML) http://vitaarts.net “How Art Saved My Life” takes place in a collective mind space. The show is an amplified illustration of the moment in time where you stare into a black hole and choose life. The setting … ContinueHow Art Saved My Life (HASML), 2011