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Ryan Brewer (Boy Trouble), Photo by Brett Lindell 2012.
Bebe Daddy, 2013. Photo by Brett Lindell.
Bebe Daddy, 2013. Photo by Brett Lindell.
Bebe Daddy, 2013. Photo by Brett Lindell.
Bebe Daddy, 2013. Photo by Brett Lindell.
Bebe Daddy, 2013. Photo by Brett Lindell.
Ryan Brewer and AA Bronson
“White”, 2013
photographed by Matthias Herrmann in the Magic Forest between Fire island Pines and Cherry Grove.
themissive asked: "and of course the still popular, still offensive, queer 'court jester' caricature giving vapid face on most major networks" <3... love the new piece... too bad I missed the performance. Holy Other for life :)
<3 Thanks so much! and yes…Holy Other… ;)
blood-stories asked: Thanks so much for the follow back. You are amazing and its an honour you beautiful man.
Aww, thank you blood stories… <3
Post-Paradise (Black Lodge Sweat), Ryan Brewer 2013.
Post-Paradise (Black Lodge Sweat), ritual, 2013.
Created and performed by Ryan Brewer as part of Triskaidekaphobia, a group performance exhibition at Parade Ground (NYC), on January 12th, 2013. Curated by AA Bronson and Bradford Kessler. Documentation by Rafael Santiago.
Audio: “Yr Love” by Holy Other, from the album “With U,” Tri Angle Records, 2011.
Performance Duration: 3 hours
Installation Dimensions: 11 feet (diameter) x 10 feet (height) [Variable]
Ryan Brewer’s performance project Post-Paradise (Black Lodge Sweat) utilized pole dance and disparate occult practices within sculptural installation to assert a rhetoric that challenges notions of gender, identity, and expression, and complicates relationships between desire, shame, and power.
The project aimed to investigate notions of gender identity through the formation and performance of the artist’s sexual persona: a jockstrap-clad, bleach-blond playboy. Brewer’s body and physical ability were conditioned for skill, strength, flexibility, and endurance through a rigorous six-month period of professional pole dance training. He puts out. Or does he?
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Post-Paradise (Black Lodge Sweat), ritual, 2013
Created and performed by Ryan Brewer as part of Triskaidekaphobia, a group performance exhibition at Parade Ground (NYC), on January 12th, 2013. Curated by AA Bronson and Bradford Kessler. Documentation by Rafael Santiago.
Duration: 3 hours
Post-Paradise (Black Lodge Sweat), installation, Ryan Brewer 2013
Pre-ritual installation above; post-ritual installation & details below.
Steel pole, glass votive candle holders, candles, steel/leather flogger, sheep pelt, bottled water, bottled Pepsi-cola, bottled rubbing alcohol, towels, Ibuprofen, bandages, protein bar, pomelo fruits, Himalayan incense, cedar smudge stick, mugwort smudge stick, books (Sexual Personae, Camille Paglia; The Body in Pain, Elaine Scarry), artist’s notebook, computer, sound system, hardware.
Dimensions: 11 feet (diameter) x 10 feet (height) [Variable]
lostboy24683 asked: Your work is amazing!
Thank you lostboy!
Ryan, Brooklyn, NY
Photographed by Brett Lindell 2013
