I took several hundred self-portraits with the Polaroid One-Step SX-70 camera in 1978. The artists whose work at the time captivated me were Lucas Samaras, Egon Schiele, and Rudolf Schwarzkogler. To document my life as a 21-year-old queer art punk, I used the Polaroid, multiple journals and performance. I posed, like any good punk, to put you off and to attract you just the same; its all the same.
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Dec. 30 & 31, 1978
The Situations became my favorite band at the beginning of November 1978. I refer to them as the new suburban band.
Gigs with the Offs, the punk-reggae band lead by Don Vinil, had to be strange ones. "Die Babylon" preceded by "Mr. Toaster."
Now I wonder why I would post these, why I have so many posters of a band that doesn't have a MySpace page or an entry on wikipedia. Exclusionary, superior, or just pointless, wasted energy. Misspent youth. Or, just youth? It was the situation I was in.
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fucking hot
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