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Sexual Advances book
This includes the complete performance text, my personal and scholarly commentary on that text, and a new series of self-portrait photos.
The Dark Lord and His Wily Mistress audio
This consists of my reading "The Dark Lord and His Wily Mistress." Original music by a contemporary composer, commissioned for the piece, will enhance the mood. "The Dark Lord and His Wily Mistress" is a pseudo vampire story. The two main characters are a husband and wife who exhibit some of the characteristics of the iconic vampire invented in the nineteenth century, especially Count Dracula, the lead in Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula, published in 1897. Extraordinary strength, intense presence, and seemingly magical powers lend Rosalba and Rosario a sexy glamour as they work out a problem he’s having: he wants to kill someone with a gun. The setting and dialogue convey a very contemporary flavor as love and mystical interventions create a redemption tale out of a horror story. The vampire as a cultural figure intrigues me and I perform as a vampire in “Vampiric Strategies,” which I presented in 1991 and which is published in Monster/Beauty.
The House of Love video
This is a video piece that focuses visually on parts of my body as I move through my home while speaking about my personal and professional history and their resonance in my current life. The title references Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s major poetic work, The House of Life, which is a sequence of 101 sonnets published in 1881. I identify with Rossetti’s paintings of women and flowers, especially roses, and his passionately romantic engagement with love.
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