Pussy Palace is a multi-media collaborative work that began after DK and SS collected index cards that were used to catalogue the clients of a now-defunct erotic massage parlor. This index of descriptions voiced by women who sexually service men illuminates the performativity of gender, as well as the duplicitous sexual desires & behaviors of an economically and socially privileged class of men. The installation draws on humor and the grotesque, rendering gendered sexuality as spectacle, and heteronormativity as mere illusion, amasquerade of heterosocial conformity. CIRCUS ACT is the video portion of our installation, PUSSY PALACE.
