In the following interview, we have a long chat with Mel Shimkovitz about Trans vampires, her Zelig-like position in the music, art and Hollywood worlds, and the media’s sudden shift in focus toward the lives and rights of the LGBTQ community. Click here to read the full convo.
Cocorosie's Bianca Casady Presents Daisy Chain
Currently on view at Cheim & Read gallery New York, an exhibition of recent works by multi-media artist and one half of the band Cocorosie Bianca Casady. The show, entitled Daisy Chain, will present installation works, drawings, collages, photographs, audio and projected video works. Casady’s recent group of works address ideas of gender and race, especially as they are played out in prison. Themes of wounds/scars/reconstruction, monsters, power and subordination are explored. The feminization of the male as a means of domination is depicted in a Genet-like fantasy. Daisy Chain is the first major New York exhibition since her 2007 Lil Girl Slim “Cosmic Willingness” Pipe Dreamz A Revelation exhibition at Deitch Projects. Daisy Chain will be on view until September 8, 2012 at Cheim & Read, 547 West 25th Street New York, NY