Posts tagged “*sexuality

RAPID FIRE A New York state of (dirty) mind

Posted on 10 March 2010

Rapid fire - taking to un/popular culture with point and shoot mentality Congratulations are in order for Luis Acosta, winner of the NYC Condom wrapper design competition run by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Decided by popular vote, Acosta’s design, featuring a yellow power symbol (IEC 5009 – line partially within a broken circle), drew my attention to the many puns that can now be made when you turn on your computer. ;) Here’s what New York City Health Commissioner, Dr Thomas Farley, had to say about the design (from NPR): “When I saw [the design], I said this is pure genius,” Farley told the crowd. “Everyone recognizes that symbol on their PC. People should use their own power to…

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the male(-on-male, masculine) gaze :: slava mogutin

Posted on 29 September 2007

red hat (xevi), 2003 i really like the art work of slava mougtin. self-proclaimed “exiled dissident, porno activist, homo terrorist, pinko commie fag,” his exploits saw him become the target of three high publicity criminal cases which ultimately resulted in his forced move to america. his highly sexualised installation and photographic works are a paradox. at once they are challenging to the feminised concept of the gay man present in the social psyche, yet subtle features, expressions, clothing and props continually reinvent and reinvigorate the fem nature of gay boys. his installation and photographic work effortlessly obliterates sex/gender stereotypes, to present new, masculinised and hyper-masculinised portrayals of mid-20s gay men. from pref no 9, 2006 he’s obsession with queer ‘straight guys’ as sex objects…

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Slava Mogutin’s gaze and gays

Posted on 28 September 2007

New York based, Russian-born photographer Slava Mougtin creates something between portraiture and pornography. Overtly sexualised, his work often depict buff boys engaged in acts of arousal and fetish. His installation and photographic work effortlessly obliterates sex/gender stereotypes, to present new, masculinised and hyper-masculinised portrayals of mid-20s gay men. But his boys are more than just a personification of homoerotic hetero male bicuriousness. They are paradoxically challenging the fag persona, the dominant homosexual identity, while subtly (re)presenting aspects of that identity. Mogutin’s obsession with queer ‘straight’ guys and turning them into sex objects is paramount to his masculine homosexual idea. His main objects of desire are jocks, skaters, thugs and wiggas, His boys are quintessential of this fashion and lifestyle, often skaters, always lean and regularly well built and muscular. And because they are presented as…

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