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1 Vito Acconci//Malek Alloula//Lawrence Alloway// assume vivid astro focus//ron Athey//Louise Bourgeois//Stan Brakhage//Norman O. Brown// Judith Butler//George Chakravarthi//Judy Chicago// Tee Corinne//Cosey Fanni Tutti//Douglas Crimp// Wim Delvoye//Angela Dimitrakaki//Jennifer Doyle// Marcel Duchamp//VALIE EXPORT//Michel Foucault// Dan Fox//Masha Gessen//Guillermo Gómez-Peña// Felix Gonzalez-Torres//Daniel Guérin//Sunil Gupta// Harmony Hammond//Eleanor Heartney//Jesse Helms//Claudette Johnson//Jonathan D. Katz//Mary Kelly//Jennie Klein//Max Kozloff//Rosalind Krauss// Julia Kristeva//Jack Kroll//Yayoi Kusama//Del LaGrace Volcano//Robert Legorreta (Cyclona)//Pawel Leszkowicz//Paul McCarthy//Juanita McNeely//Sarah Maple//Herbert Marcuse//Joseph Masheck//Kobena Mercer//Jonas Mekas//Annette Michelson//Laura Mulvey//Shirin Neshat//Lorraine O Grady//Yoko Ono// Catherine Opie//ORLAN//Peter Plagens//William Pope.L//Lawrence Rinder//Jacqueline Rose//Miriam Schapiro//Carolee Schneemann//Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick//Joan Semmel//Martha Shelley//Jack Smith//Susan Sontag//Annie Sprinkle//Anita Steckel// Alina Szapocznikow//Trinh T. Minh-ha//Vaginal Davis//Olivier Vallerand//Stephen Whittle//Hannah Wilke//David Wojnarowicz Sexuality

2 Whitechapel Gallery London The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts Edited by Amelia Jones Documents of Contemporary Art

3 Co-published by Whitechapel Gallery and The MIT Press First published Whitechapel Gallery Ventures Limited All texts the authors or the estates of the authors, unless otherwise stated Whitechapel Gallery is the imprint of Whitechapel Gallery Ventures Limited All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without the written permission of the publisher ISBN (Whitechapel Gallery) ISBN (The MIT Press) A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sexuality (M.I.T. Press) Sexuality / edited by Amelia Jones. pages cm. (Whitechapel: documents of contemporary art) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Sex and art. 2. Art Psychology. 3. Art, Modern 20th century. 4. Art, Modern 21st century. I. Jones, Amelia, editor of compilation. II. Title. N72.S49S dc Series Editor: Iwona Blazwick Commissioning Editor: Ian Farr Project Editor: Sarah Auld Design by SMITH Justine Schuster Printed and bound in China Cover, Tee Corinne, Yantras of Womanlove (1982) [page 41], gelatin silver print. Tee Corinne Papers, Coll Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries. Whitechapel Gallery Ventures Limited Whitechapel High Street London E1 7QX whitechapelgallery.org To order (UK and Europe) call +44 (0) or MailOrder@whitechapelgallery.org Distributed to the book trade (UK and Europe only) by Central Books The MIT Press MIT Press books may be purchased at special quantity discounts for business or sales promotional use. For information, please special_sales@ mitpress.mit.edu Documents of Contemporary Art In recent decades artists have progressively expanded the boundaries of art as they have sought to engage with an increasingly pluralistic environment. Teaching, curating and understanding of art and visual culture are likewise no longer grounded in traditional aesthetics but centred on significant ideas, topics and themes ranging from the everyday to the uncanny, the psychoanalytical to the political. The Documents of Contemporary Art series emerges from this context. Each volume focuses on a specific subject or body of writing that has been of key influence in contemporary art internationally. Edited and introduced by a scholar, artist, critic or curator, each of these source books provides access to a plurality of voices and perspectives defining a significant theme or tendency. For over a century the Whitechapel Gallery has offered a public platform for art and ideas. In the same spirit, each guest editor represents a distinct yet diverse approach rather than one institutional position or school of thought and has conceived each volume to address not only a professional audience but all interested readers. Series Editor: Iwona Blazwick; Commissioning Editor: Ian Farr; Project Editor: Sarah Auld; Editorial Advisory Board: Roger Conover, Neil Cummings, Mark Francis, David Jenkins, Omar Kholeif, Magnus af Petersens, Gilane Tawadros

4 Our formidable challenge is to rehumanize, repoliticize and decolonize our own bodies Introduction//12 DESIRE, ART, EROTICISM//28 REPRESENTATION, SEXUALITY, VISUALITY//66 SEXUALITY, ART, POLITICS//96 PORN, S&M, THE LIMITS OF ART//134 QUEER, PERFORMANCE, EMBODIMENT//176 BiOGRAPHICAL NOTES//226 Bibliography/228 Index//233 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS//239 wounded by the media and intervened upon by the invisible surgery of pop culture; and to do it in such a way that our audiences are not even aware of it Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Culturas-in-extremis, 2005

5 DESIRE, ART, EROTICISM Marcel Duchamp The Bride Stripped Bare, 1934//30 Herbert Marcuse Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud (1955), 1961//31 Norman O. Brown Art and Eros, 1959//32 Daniel Guérin Wilhelm Reich Today, 1968//38 Carolee Schneemann On Fuses ( ): In Conversation with Kate Haug, 1998//43 Alina Szapocznikow The Human Body, That Complete Erogenous Zone, 1972//48 Joan Semmel, Louise Bourgeois, Anita Steckel, Juanita McNeely, Hannah Wilke Statements for The Female View of Erotica, 1974//49 Malek Alloula The Orient as Stereotype and Phantasm, 1981//51 Claudette Johnson Issues Surrounding the Representation of the Naked Body of a Woman, 1991//54 Lorraine O Grady Olympia s Maid: Reclaiming Black Subjectivity, 1992//56 ORLAN Carnal Art Manifesto, c. 2000//61 Jonathan D. Katz Art and the Sexual Revolution, 2010//62 REPRESENTATION, SEXUALITY, VISUALITY Yoko Ono Score for Film no. 6, 1968//68 Laura Mulvey Fears, Fantasies and the Male Unconscious, or You Don t Know What s Happening, Do You Mr Jones?, 1972//69 Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro Female Imagery, 1973//73 Mary Kelly No Essential Femininity: In Conversation with Paul Smith, 1982//76 Jacqueline Rose Sexuality in the Field of Vision, 1984//79 Trinh T. Minh-ha Difference: A Special Third World Women Issue, 1989//82 Kobena Mercer Skin Head Sex Thing: Racial Difference and the Homoerotic Imaginary, 1991//85 Jennie Klein Feeding the Body: The Work of Barbara Smith, 1999//89 Harmony Hammond Lesbian Art in America, 2000//92 Dan Fox On Gerard Byrne s New Sexual Lifestyles (2003), 2006//93 George Chakravarthi In Conversation with Tina Jackson, 2007//95 SEXUALITY, ART, POLITICS Jonas Mekas A Statement, 1964//98 Stan Brakhage Letter to Jonas Mekas, 1967//100 Yayoi Kusama Homosexual Wedding (Press Release), 1968//102 VALIE EXPORT On Work of the Late 1960s: In Conversation with Devin Fore, 2012//103 Tee Corinne and Martha Shelley Cunt Coloring Book (1975), 1981//106 Douglas Crimp AIDS: Cultural Analysis/Cultural Activism, 1987//107 David Wojnarowicz Idol Worship: In Conversation with Owen Keehnen, 1991//110 Felix Gonzalez-Torres In Conversation with Robert Storr, 1995//114 Lawrence Rinder In a Different Light: Visual Culture, Sexual Identity, Queer Practice, 1995//117 Shirin Neshat In Conversation with Arthur C. Danto, 2000//121 Sarah Maple Islam is the New Black: In Conversation with Anikka Maya Weerasinghe, 2008//125 Pawel Leszkowicz Ars Homo Erotica, 2010//127

6 Masha Gessen Pussy Riot: Modern Russian Women Trapped in Putin s Time Machine, 2012//129 Olivier Vallerand Endlessly Kissing in a Park, 2012//131 PORN, S&M, THE LIMITS OF ART Cosey Fanni Tutti On Works ( ), 1993//136 Peter Plagens On Lynda Benglis, Artforum Advertisement, 1974//138 Lawrence Alloway, Max Kozloff, Rosalind Krauss, Joseph Masheck and Annette Michelson On Lynda Benglis, Artforum Advertisement, 1974//139 Michel Foucault The Gay Science: In Conversation with Jean Le Bitoux, 1978//140 Julia Kristeva Approaching Abjection, 1980//144 Eleanor Heartney In Defence of Pornography: A Necessary Transgression, 1988//147 Jesse Helms Amendment no. 420, 1989//150 Annie Sprinkle Post Porn Modernist, 1991//151 Jennifer Doyle The Effect of Intimacy: Tracey Emin s Bad-Sex Aesthetics, 2002//152 Paul McCarthy In Conversation with Benjamin Weissman, 2003//157 Catherine Opie In Conversation with Amy Kellner, 2009//160 Ron Athey In Conversation with Martin O Brien, 2011//164 Angela Dimitrakaki Labour, Ethics, Sex and Capital: On Biopolitical Production in Contemporary Art, 2011//167 Vito Acconci In Conversation with Cindy Nemser, 1971//182 Judith Butler The Body You Want: In Conversation with Liz Kotz, 1992//185 Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Queer Performativity: Warhol s Shyness/Warhol s Whiteness, 1996//191 William Pope.L Hole Theory: Parts 4 & 5, 2002//195 Stephen Whittle Impossible People: Viewing the Self- Portraits of Transsexual Persons, 2004//200 Wim Delvoye Vim and Vigour: In Conversation with Robert Enright, 2005//202 Guillermo Gómez-Peña Culturas-in-extremis: Performing against the Cultural Backdrop of the Mainstream Bizarre (2001), 2005//205 Robert Legorreta (Cyclona) In Conversation with Jennifer Flores Sternad, 2006//208 Sunil Gupta In conversation with Radhika Singh, 2008//212 Del LaGrace Volcano Hermstory, 2010//218 assume vivid astro focus Cyclops Trannies, c. 2011//222 Vaginal Davis LA Riot: On Jabberjaw, 2012//223 QUEER, PERFORMANCE, EMBODIMENT Jack Kroll Robert Rauschenberg, 1961//178 Jack Smith God s Body, c. 1963//179 Susan Sontag Notes on Camp, 1964//180