SUMMER SERIES

TOXIC TITTIES doors open at 7:30pm This event is free

Toxic Titties is a collaborative of feminist artists working with performance, video, and film, bringing a subcultural phenomenon into the frame of conceptual art. Using pleasure and play, the group mutates with each performance to include a multiplicity of participants and embody queer perversions of cultural ideals. Through failure and excess, Toxic Titties simultaneously invokes and destabilizes collective identity formations. The TTs have appeared as camp counselors (Camp TT), police officers (LATT), a feminist militia (Toxic Troopers), blushing brides (Toxic Union), members of a lost art movement (The Mamaists), high society art patrons (Be My Patron), and B-Movie lesb-sploitation starlets hell bent on world domination (Invasion of the Toxic Titties).

In their latest guise, Toxic Titties reinterpret Yoko Ono's Cut Piece by putting their collective body in the place of the artist-performer. Toxic Tittties tests their collective bonds by surrendering to the will of the audience. The power of the multitudes is strong and unseverable.

Toxic Titties is a project of artists Heather Cassils, Clover Leary, and Julia Steinmetz, plus an ever evolving tribe of performers.

I am approaching Yoko Ono's Cut Piece from the opposite side. Instead of Ono's concept of having the audience cut off my clothes, I will have them dress me, one after another, while I perform Ono's song "Walking On Thin Ice" continuously. - Lun*na Menoh

This performance, Jean Paul Yamamoto, consists of Lun*na Menoh and Alan Mayer on drums.

Osuna's interpretation of the Cut Piece involves the construction of an instrument that plays the melody of an oppressed queer youth.

JACOB MELCHI and ETHAN AYER
"I See Fluxus Wherever I Go"
(Be careful with that darker stuff guys, folks might gather you've blown a fuse up there)

Melchi/Ayer's performance includes a social displacement, a party, music, and beer.