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Sissies and Psychopaths runs till Sat, June 23 at the George Gilmour Members’ Gallery, 104 Richmond St W.
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Sissies and Psychopaths
Michael Lyons on a great big gay culture clash in our city
06.08.2012
“I bring up Hercules and He-Man because the makers of those shows didn’t think, ‘Oh, little boys will think these guys are really cute.’ But little boys thought they were cute!” says artist Peter Kingstone, one of the masterful minds behind Sissies and Psychopaths.
An artistic collaboration between Kingstone and fellow visual artist Daryl Vocat, the show consists of images from The Mighty Hercules, Silence of the Lambs (specifically, Buffalo Bill) and gay porn crashing together in a series of collages. Created for the Print Studio in Hamilton, Sissies and Psychopaths originated as an exploration of gay identity, though Vocat says, “We were also thinking about other possible commonalities. One idea we came up with was youth and media — how queer people are portrayed in the media and how it informs who we are and who we think we are.”
This idea evolved into an examination of gay sexuality and archetypes through the eyes of Kingstone and Vocat’s five-year-old selves. “The conversation breaks down how we were being portrayed, how the world was portraying being queer,” Kingstone says.
Sissies and Psychopaths runs till Sat, June 23 at the George Gilmour Members’ Gallery, 104 Richmond St W.
An artistic collaboration between Kingstone and fellow visual artist Daryl Vocat, the show consists of images from The Mighty Hercules, Silence of the Lambs (specifically, Buffalo Bill) and gay porn crashing together in a series of collages. Created for the Print Studio in Hamilton, Sissies and Psychopaths originated as an exploration of gay identity, though Vocat says, “We were also thinking about other possible commonalities. One idea we came up with was youth and media — how queer people are portrayed in the media and how it informs who we are and who we think we are.”
This idea evolved into an examination of gay sexuality and archetypes through the eyes of Kingstone and Vocat’s five-year-old selves. “The conversation breaks down how we were being portrayed, how the world was portraying being queer,” Kingstone says.
Sissies and Psychopaths runs till Sat, June 23 at the George Gilmour Members’ Gallery, 104 Richmond St W.
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Kaeli8/8/2012 7:15:32 PMChrisYou diienftely made your point and did a great job on it, too.I agree that there is a diienfte discrepancy between how people tend to judge public displays of affection when it comes to straight or gay people.I have to say though that there is a difference between kissing or sucking each others face.While I think that a kiss is quite OK wherever you are but in some situations I am not particularly interested in watching others engaging in vertical wrestling matches.I simply think that this sort of behavior is private and I feel as if I'm intruding on something very intimate and personal whenever I see others making out in public in a situation where I cannot give them more privacy. (On the train for example)It is OK to show love and affection to whoever you love but it is also respectful to not embarrass somebody else by putting them in the situation where they have to witness more action than they would have liked.So please show the world how much you love but show the world that you are well behaved as well.Flag | @Reply
