Projects
Damelo Todo (2009 - )
STILL (2009)
The Shape of a Right Statement (2008)
Hospitality (2005)
Performances
PIG (2009)
Lamento della drag (2009)
Someone Else's Song (2007)
Collaborations
IMPRENTA
Wildness
Marriage
Pilot TV
Roles
Criminal Case 40/61 (2009)
Salomania (2009)
contact: wu(at)imprentala.org
Tainted Love Exhbition for Visual AIDS, La Mama Gallery, 2009
"STILL" is a series of photographic lightboxes that depict the area (front and rear entryways) of IMPRENTA. These partly documented- partly staged momements represent a kind of quiet, insistent resistance engaged with the immediate location of MacArthur Park, Los Angeles. IMPRENTA is an artist-run space that organizes exhibitions, screenings, a free HIV clinic, and a legal clinic for low income trans people of color.
“The fist is still up” is a quotation from Jack Doroshow (aka “Flawless Sabrina”), who performed at The Silver Platter in December 2008. Sabrina describes her first encounter with the bar as a kind of flashback: “It was deja vu, it was also daytime, but this place was familiar to me out of another life, back when I was running the contests [in the early 60s]. We sold tickets out of this place... There was something about the nature, it can’t be just the bricks and mortar - but that fist was there! And these children weren’t putting up with any shit, that’s right! That was long before Stonewall...”
Color transparency and light-boxes, 36x48x5
"The fist is still up" (Still Series)
"Piss Alley" (Still Series)