"Originally published in 2018, this conversation between Vaginal Davis and Bjarne Melgaard returns on the occasion of Vaginal Davis: Magnificent Product at MoMA PS1-a major retrospective spanning five decades of Davis's boundary-breaking practice. Known as much for her multiple personas as for her category-defying artistic practice, Vaginal Davis has been disrupting ideas of cookie-cutter drag and queerness since her early days in the 80s LA club performance scene."
"Ms. Davis single-handedly created and assembled dozens of black-and-white Xerox zines like Shrimp and Fertile LaToya Jackson while working at UCLA in the 80s. She developed a number of on-stage acts such as ¡Cholita! and Afro Sisters. On top of that, she mounted a number of exhibitions and multi-media performances at HAG, the gallery she founded in LA in 1982. Three years ago, she had her first American solo exhibition at Participant Inc."
Vaginal Davis’s practice spans five decades through multiple personas, performances, visual work, and DIY publishing. A retrospective at MoMA PS1, Vaginal Davis: Magnificent Product, presents the breadth of a boundary-breaking career. Davis created dozens of black-and-white Xerox zines such as Shrimp and Fertile LaToya Jackson while working at UCLA in the 1980s. She developed on-stage acts including ¡Cholita! and Afro Sisters and founded HAG gallery in Los Angeles in 1982, where she mounted exhibitions and multi-media performances. Conversations with Bjarne Melgaard touch on influences like Berlin, David Bowie, sexual frustration, toe sucking, and Xerox parties.
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