You Will Never Have the Comfort of Our Silence Again
Amy Cousins, Lesbian Feminist Witch Puppet: A Reimagining, 2016.Papier-mâché, textile, woods, and newsprint takeaway.
Amy Cousins: You Will Never Have the Comfort of Our Silence Once more
August 18 – October 8, 2017
Amy Cousins' large-scale sculptures and installations are based on her research into rare protest ephemera, out-of-print feminist newspapers, and first-person accounts of radical queer histories. From the Lesbian Feminist Annunciation of 1976 to the Gay Liberation Dances that emerged across the U.S. in the 1970s, Cousins reimagines these remarkable yet poorly documented events and reveals captivating examples of inventiveness in queer protest. Her sculptural reinterpretations are produced with a range of processes and materials: wall hung appliqué textile figures, text made from shag material, a x-foot-tall papier-mâché puppet, and an off-kilter tufted patent leather vinyl vitrine—consummate with kinky lavender fur—to name a few.
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Amy Cousins: Yous Will Never Have the Condolement of Our Silence Once more
Installation view
Amy Cousins: Yous Will Never Accept the Comfort of Our Silence Again
You lot volition never accept the comfort of our silence again Blimp shag fabric 2016
Amy Cousins: You Will Never Take the Comfort of Our Silence Over again
You will never take the comfort of our silence again Stuffed shag material 2016
Amy Cousins: Yous Volition Never Accept the Comfort of Our Silence Again
Lesbian Feminist Witch Puppet: A Reimagining Papier-mâché, wood, fabric, and digital prints 2016
Amy Cousins: You Will Never Take the Comfort of Our Silence Once more
Close upwardly view of Lesbian Feminist Witch Puppet: A Reimagining Papier-mâché, wood, fabric, and digital prints 2016
Amy Cousins: You Will Never Have the Condolement of Our Silence Once again
newsprint takeaway for Lesbian Feminist Witch Puppet: A Reimagining 2017
Y'all Will Never Have the Comfort of Our Silence Again
Installation view
You Will Never Have the Comfort of Our Silence Once again
Installation view
You Will Never Have the Comfort of Our Silence Again
1 Dark Only Cork, trim, and trip the light fantastic toe political party poster reproductions (screen and digital prints) on paper 2017
Amy Cousins: You Volition Never Have the Condolement of Our Silence Over again
1 Night Only Cork, trim, and dance party poster reproductions (screen and digital prints) on newspaper 2017
Amy Cousins: You Will Never Take the Comfort of Our Silence Again
Installation View
Amy Cousins: You Volition Never Have the Comfort of Our Silence Again
Lavender Shag Stanchions Papier-mâché , stuffed lavender shag, and metallic 2017
Amy Cousins: You Volition Never Accept the Comfort of Our Silence Again
Shag Disco Ball Stuffed shag and metal chain 2017
Amy Cousins: You Volition Never Have the Comfort of Our Silence Over again
Projection on wall: Clips from queer dance party protest at Philadelphia Loews Hotel, Mike Pence's business firm in Washington, DC Ivanka Trump'southward house in Washington, DC Mitch McConnell's firm in Washington, DC the Governor'southward Mansion in Austin. Footage taken past attendees and journalists including Suzy Subways, Reshma Kirpalani, Jack Smith, C on the Sene, and Mike Nik. 15:26
Amy Cousins: You Volition Never Take the Comfort of Our Silence Again
Project on wall: Clips from queer dance party protest at Philadelphia Loews Hotel, Mike Pence's house in Washington, DC Ivanka Trump'south business firm in Washington, DC Mitch McConnell'southward house in Washington, DC the Governor's Mansion in Austin. Footage taken by attendees and journalists including Suzy Subways, Reshma Kirpalani, Jack Smith, C on the Sene, and Mike Nik. fifteen:26
Amy Cousins: You Will Never Have the Comfort of Our Silence Again
Pre-Dance Rally Inkjet impress of a rally preceding the Gay Liberation Dance at the Chicago Coliseum in 1970 on taffeta with satin. Photo: Margaret Olin, 2017
Amy Cousins: You Will Never Have the Comfort of Our Silence Over again
Installation view
Amy Cousins: Yous Volition Never Have the Comfort of Our Silence Over again
Queer Rage(r) Outside Loews Hotel, Philadelphia, 2017 Applique and machine embroidery
Amy Cousins: You Will Never Have the Comfort of Our Silence Again
Queer Rage(r) Outside Loews Hotel, Philadelphia, 2017 Applique and machine embroidery
Amy Cousins: You Will Never Take the Comfort of Our Silence Again
Queer Rage(r) Exterior Loews Hotel, Philadelphia, 2017 Applique and motorcar embroidery
Amy Cousins: Yous Will Never Have the Comfort of Our Silence Again
Queer Rage(r) Exterior Loews Hotel, Philadelphia, 2017 Applique and car embroidery
Amy Cousins: You Will Never Have the Comfort of Our Silence Once again
Queer Rage(r) Outside Loews Hotel, Philadelphia, 2017 Applique and machine embroidery
Amy Cousins: You Will Never Have the Comfort of Our Silence Again
Queer Rage(r) Outside Loews Hotel, Philadelphia, 2017 Applique and machine embroidery
Cousins' new artworks, such as the queer dance party she volition stage at University Galleries, are inspired by more recent activism, including the LGBTQIA+ activists' public trip the light fantastic party outside of Vice President Mike Pence'due south house, which inspired subsequent guerilla dance parties at the homes of Senator Mitch McConnell and Ivanka Trump, the Texas State Capitol in Austin, and the Loews Hotel in Philadelphia during the 2017 Republican Congressional Retreat. Cousins states that she is moved past the "decidedly queer ingenuity and playfulness in addressing such serious and heavy issues," believing that "resurfacing and celebrating this history seems paramount to how we shape our contemporary political queer landscape today."
Cousins' artwork harks back to arts and crafts'southward central office throughout the history of protestation, from the enormous papier-mâché puppets of the politically radical Bread & Puppet Theater founded in New York City in the early on 1960s to the multicolored and often political arpilleras created by groups of Chilean women in response to the 1973 armed forces dictatorship. The phrase You Will Never Accept the Condolement of Our Silence Again, spelled out in oversized orange-shag fabric, derives from a imprint that activist grouping DYKETACTICS! used to protest the death of an equal rights amendment at Philadelphia'southward City Hall in 1975. Accompanying the banner, activists too carried a behemothic witch puppet that cackled "I am the lesbian suppressed in every woman, I am the adult female in every male crucified on the cross of manhood" while they clashed with anarchism police force resulting in many of the women being badly beaten. This shameful incident is one instance of how Cousins' inquiry transforms sparsely recorded events into unconventional queer monuments.
In conjunction with her exhibition, Cousins will collaborate with Illinois State Academy's Normal Editions Workshop to produce a limited edition of prints, of which 2 impressions volition get part of Academy Galleries' permanent collection. In 2016, Cousins won the Curator'due south Pick Award for Beyond the Norm: An International Juried Print Exhibition, which was organized by Northward.E.W. to gloat their xlth ceremony and hosted past University Galleries.
Cousins' piece of work has been exhibited nationally at venues including Washington Printmaker'south Gallery, Argent Bound, Maryland; Vox Populi, Philadelphia; Moore College of Art, Philadelphia; Visual Arts Eye at Boise Land University, Idaho; Peephole Cinema, San Francisco; and IS Projects, Fort Lauderdale. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Maryland Establish Higher of Art, Baltimore, and a Master of Fine Arts in printmaking from the Tyler School of Art at Temple Academy, Philadelphia. Originally from Houston, Cousins currently lives and works in Philadelphia, where she is also an active member of the experimental animation commonage, OOF.
This upshot is sponsored by the Harold Thou. Sage Foundation and the Illinois State University Foundation Fund. Programs at University Galleries are sponsored in function by a grant from the Illinois Arts Quango Agency. The artist reception is co-sponsored by Hyatt Place, Bloomington-Normal. The dance party is co-sponsored by Women's and Gender Studies.
Exhibition Documentation
Exhibition Photos
Events & Programming
Reception
Friday, August 25
5:00 p.chiliad. to 7:00 p.one thousand.
Artist lecture
Th, October 5
Noon
Trip the light fantastic toe party
DJs: Hijo Pródigo & CQQCHIFRUIT
from Chances Dances
Saturday, October 7
9:00 a.grand. to xi:00 p.m.
Co-sponsored past Women'south and Gender Studies
Source: https://galleries.illinoisstate.edu/exhibitions/2017/cousins-amy/
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