fierce pussy, Transmission VI , 2022, Offset and Braille on paper, limited edition of 3000
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fierce pussy (Nancy Brooks Brody / Joy Episalla / Zoe Leonard / Carrie Yamaoka) is a collective of queer women artists. Formed in New York City in 1991 through their immersion in AIDS activism during a decade of increasing political mobilization around LGBTQ+ rights, fierce pussy brought lesbian identity and visibility directly into the streets. Low-tech and low budget, the collective responded to the urgency of those years by using readily available resources: old typewriters, found photographs, their own baby pictures, and the printing supplies and equipment accessible in their day jobs.
Transmission VI, commissioned for Indisposable, is on view in the gallery and available for guests to take with them. Transmission VI uses an open-letter format to relay communications from a future or distant utopia where the current horrors of oppression that continue on our dying planet are incomprehensible and worrisome. In each Transmission the beings ask more questions in their attempts to understand the violence, inequality, and cruelty in contemporary human society. Through their questions and offers of help, these beings sketch out alternate possibilities for social relationships and sustainable living.
fierce pussy engages written language as inherently visual, while freely combining references to past, present, and future. Transmission VI draws on various visual vernaculars: the expansive possibilities of punctuation, the retro styling of a telex machine typeface, the red framing lines of legal documents, and the tactile language of Braille.
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