These eight images are stills from the video that Xero took of my performance. My character ‘femmedonna’ danced and played in an installation created by Xero in his studio….. it was a crazy twisting of ceiling to floor wires and speakers and light projections and green sheets… intense!
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I feel like a lucky-ducky to be a part of this show that opened today in Sweden. The Jordberga Konstexpo is curated by artist and performer Alexandra Kostrubala. The theme of the show is “light” …a highly general theme which allows for endless artistic interpretations.
Enjoy the images, my lovelies!
xoxo,
Frantic Femme <3
art porn ≠ porn
(art porn does not equal porn)
“art porn ≠ porn” is a series of 16 small intimate self-portraits. These were moments captured during Frantic’s performance dance, in which VHS 1980’s Pornography was light-projected onto a large area of a white wall and white mattress. Frantic Femme danced, stripped & played in the light projection, documenting & photographing herself and the experience with a small handheld digital camera. This work both pokes fun at and comments on the censorship issues that Frantic has been dealing with on her Facebook Profile(s). By having others recently suggest that her work is “pornographic,” Frantic decided to make a collection of work, meant to hang in the walls of a gallery space, that communicates just how non-pornographic “Art-Porn” can be when hung on a white wall to be viewed by the general public & collectors.
(Projection & Installation by John Xero)
JORDBERGA KONSTEXPO
Vernissage Skärtorsdagen 17-21
22/4-25/4 & 30/4-1/5 11-17
Dror och Gunilla Feiler
Morgan Schagerberg
Anders Kappel
AnnaStina Erlandsson
Trapets/Felicia Konrad och Mats Persson
Ida Adler
Jan Cardell
Michael Nilsson
Brian Hart, USA
Frantic Femme, USA
Merzedes Sturm-Li
Sylvette Wikström & Douglas Zetterman
Curator Alexandra Kostrubala speaking about the show:
“Nobody needs to be afraid of the Dark. Artist´s always show the way. Jordberga Trelleborg NOW!!!
“I am at “Jordberga Gods” where Ingmar Bergman played in Midsummersnights dream….beautiful spooky place. Here a group of local artists took over a stable to once a year make an exhibition. I was asked to curate this year so I know want to bring “Art to the people” and this Påsk Runda has a lot of people. ”So I invited the best most modern artists and all of them including Dror Feiler also burn for this non elite audience. I later heard that the Swedish Democrats tried to stop the Expo and felt even more compelled to get the exhibition out to the people. The exhibition is about “light” and people now are so afraid of the dark. I have seen that even the farmers come by and start to smile when they see Michael Nilssons human Canon or Jan Cardel moving electronic moving grass interactive sculptor. Ida Alders alchemist paintings which free-assoction made Sara the Gardner who never smiles or talks brighten up and she started to free associate to all things bones planets mold bacteria…and still not all the works are here. I hope this can open hearts and minds in this time when people are scared of the dark and that is why I would love to get the message out.”
p.s. Alexandra you totally rock my sox, babygirl! i love you so!
(and a note to my friends)
okay… so as many of you know… I have been dealing with major censorship shenanigans on my facebook page. Well the good news - now have a new facebook profile (click the pic if you want in). The bad news is that i am only currently accepting people that i actually “know” on my new profile. That said, I will try to blog more with recent work so you dont have to miss, um.. tooo many beats.
The image above is a screenshot of the photo that put-me-over-the-edge with the facebook “police” and caused them to ban my ability to post photos. Strange thing is that this photo was “sitting pretty” on my profile in an album that was three years old! hmmmmm…….. sooo……..
So I’d like to give a shout-out and a big F-YOU to the “bitch” who pretended to be a facebook “friend” only to turn around report my images… BRAVO!! But also, I wanted to tell them THANKS!!! mainly because they have inadvertently increased the public’s interest in my work! So take THAT you facebook “bitch” !!!! mmwwaahahahahaa! :)
Anyhoo… enjoy my newest posts friends (you can enjoy them too “bitch”)… as they will highlight both new and old(ish) work. I will try to give you some timelines as I go, but the majority of the posts are all within the past year or so.
xoxo,
frantic femme
Frantic Femme:
A Muse Inc.
Musing and A-Musing since 1980.
Photographer, Sculptress & Performance Artist
email: frantic@franticfemme.com
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Roy Lichtenstein: “Nude with Street Scene,” 1955
Blowing smoke - actress Janet Leigh (1927-2004), date unknown.
