CHRISTEN CLIFFORD and DANIELLA LAGACCIA : INTERIORS
Fri, October 22, 2021
8:00 PM (please note earlier start time)
Donations welcome
PROOF OF VACCINATION AND MASKS REQUIRED FOR ENTRY
MASKS MUST BE WORN WHILE INDOORS
CHRISTEN CLIFFORD and DANIELLA LAGACCIA
On October 22nd in front of a live audience, Clifford will take an Interior Portrait of Daniella’s new vagina; and Daniella will see inside of herself for the first time.
LaGaccia has been performing and documenting her transition since coming out in “The Closet”, a performance at Grace Exhibition Space in 2017. She performed injections of estrogen in 2018 as part of Trans-Ville at Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, curated by Coco Dolle.
Clifford has been working on Interiors since 2015 during a residency at The ACE Hotel through AUNTSisdance, where she live-streamed from the inside of her vagina on the then experimental platform Periscope. In 2016, Clifford created PussyBow, a silk scarf printed with an image of her vaginal muscle. In 2019, at another residency at the ACE Hotel, Clifford took LaGaccia’s Interior Portrait.
CHRISTEN CLIFFORD [NYC, NY]
Christen Clifford is a multidisciplinary feminist artist, writer, curator, filmmaker, and mother. Her first risograph artbook, BabyLove, is a co-production with Project for Empty Space and was recently acquired by the library at The Met.
She continues INTERIORS: We Are All Pink Inside and created mushroom beds around NYC @myceliumhealing.
Her work has been seen at Project for Empty Space, The New Museum, LACE, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Harold J Miossi Gallery, ArtShareLA, Bolivar Art Gallery, Art In Odd Places, Panoply Performance Lab. She is working on her first film, Cancer: A Love Story .
She has also been a Mainstage storyteller for The Moth, a mentor at Girls Write Now, a salesperson at Victoria’s Secret, a cashier, a bartender and a waiter.
WRITER: The Guardian, Hyperallergic, Broadly, Filmmaker, also essays in the books Women In Clothes and The M Word: Real Mothers in Contemporary Art.
SELECTED PRESS: Interview with 3AM, Abortion Is Normal in Hyperallergic, Interiors in Hyperallergic and ARTFORUM, PussyBow in NYLON, Refinery29 and HuffPoUK. S
he teaches at The New School and curates at Dixon Place. Clifford is a studio member at Project For Empty Space, Newark and she lives in Jackson Heights, Queens and online:
@cd_clifford
DANIELLA LAGACCIA [NYC, NY]
Daniella LaGaccia is an artist and writer. She has written for Refinery29, PAPER, and Interview magazine.
She has performed at Grace Exhibition Space (Brooklyn/Manhattan), Defibrillator, (Chicago) and with the Estonian-based performance collective, Non Grata Group.
Ms. LaGaccia has also performed at Catinca Tabacaru (Manhattan) - Curated by Coco Dolle; Glasshouse Gallery (Brooklyn) and Panoply Performance Lab (Brooklyn).
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