A sex worker art collective exploring:
Intimacy through lies.
Authenticity through commodification.
The digital as the real.
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Money For Real
Location: Pfizer Gallery, Brooklyn, NYC
Dates: Upcoming in summer 2020
Curators: Thea Luce, Niko Flux, Empress Wu
Dates: Upcoming in summer 2020
Curators: Thea Luce, Niko Flux, Empress Wu
In Money for Real, sex work and art work will be utilized to undo the binaries of reality & fantasy, authentic & artificial.
Visual art will be concealed in booths of red velvet curtains, leaving the walls bare. To see the art, viewers must enter a booth and privately negotiate with a sex worker acting as gatekeeper. Money for Real resists the traditional narrative that sex work is alienation and that paid intimacy is artificial by shining light on mediums of negotiation and exchange. Cash, curtains, personas, and the digital are not barriers to connection, but our tools. Commodification produces the ‘authentic.’ ‘Intimacy’ is created through lies. The digital creates the ‘real.’The ‘authentic’ and the ‘real’ are impossibilities - a truth that we as sex workers and artists uniquely understand.
Visual and performance artists will include Aelita Parizek, Mistress Blunt, Chloe M, Elizabeta P. Buzytsky, Eva Tusquets, Heidi Darveaux, JEVX, Kat Savage, Kathryn Kane, Luna Luz, Messy Darla, Minxy Lopez, Monika Rostvold, and Red S.
Visual art will be concealed in booths of red velvet curtains, leaving the walls bare. To see the art, viewers must enter a booth and privately negotiate with a sex worker acting as gatekeeper. Money for Real resists the traditional narrative that sex work is alienation and that paid intimacy is artificial by shining light on mediums of negotiation and exchange. Cash, curtains, personas, and the digital are not barriers to connection, but our tools. Commodification produces the ‘authentic.’ ‘Intimacy’ is created through lies. The digital creates the ‘real.’The ‘authentic’ and the ‘real’ are impossibilities - a truth that we as sex workers and artists uniquely understand.
Visual and performance artists will include Aelita Parizek, Mistress Blunt, Chloe M, Elizabeta P. Buzytsky, Eva Tusquets, Heidi Darveaux, JEVX, Kat Savage, Kathryn Kane, Luna Luz, Messy Darla, Minxy Lopez, Monika Rostvold, and Red S.
The Money Series is an ongoing experiment that uses installation and performance art to bring the dynamics at play in sex work into art gallery spaces. By forcing viewers to engage with clients and workers in real, intersubjective exchanges as a prerequisite for viewing the art, the very experience of perception is accompanied by the experiences the pieces relay. The Money Series creates a vantage point — the audience sees art about sex work from within the position of a sex work dynamic. We believe this experience opens up the possibility for connection, empathy, and revelation amongst both the sex working and non-sex working communities alike.