2014 | United States | Experimental

Untitled (shaving performance 2010)

  • English 17 mins
  • Director | A.K. Burns, Katherine Hubbard
  • Writer | -
  • Producer | -

STATUS: Released

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Untitled (shaving performance 2010) is a document of a privately held performance, in which Hubbard used a straight razor to remove the hair from the lower half of Burns’ body. The work looks at how desire, intimacy and fetish operate for queer woman through a re-staging of images found at the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco of a shaving fetish shot in a dungeon in the 1970’s. Can a gesture historically reserved for men—since it’s (full body hair removal) socially normalized for woman—be reactivated as a query of beauty standards and their relationship to libidinal engagements?

Performance Intimacy Desire Fetish Queer
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