"Gender", tiny SL-photography show @ Pride Festival 2009
Thanks to Eric Quimby, who donated the space, i’m running an small SL-photography show at Second Pride Festival 2009. Images by Silverdrake Sparrow, Lacie Babenco and myself about some visions about “Gender” as a human issue. I’d like to paste here part of the notacard for the show:
Gender is one of the most important human topics. It defines us, personally and socially, and sometimes it can be hard to combine this two sides of it. What happens when the social and personal sides are not fitting? What if you accept your gender but not the social stereotypes?
In this space three SL-photographers tried to show some visions about Gender. Silverdrake Sparrow with her images about the stereotypes, asking why the heroine can’t save the boy instead of the tradition in culture. Raul Crimson talks about the social limits of gender with characters using crossed attributes or attitudes. Lacie Babenco with the power of gender to define us deeply and simply, the naked truth.
Gender is still an issue in a virtual world, even we all have the freedom to choose here the issues remain or even get bigger. Be free to be yourself, choose who you want to be and ask respect for your election.
It was opened on May 23rd and will be there for one week, while Second Pride Festival is running. I’d love if you visit it and share your opinion here, here you are the SLurl.
This year Second Pride will support the work of Amnesty International and their work against homophobia in the world, specially but not only in China, Middle East, Africa and Eastern and Central Europe. Is a good time to remember there are some countries were being homosexual is illegal and has penalties from being some months in jail, life in prison or even death penalty. Take a look at the Wikipedia for more information about this.
This year Pride Festival is six sims, two comercial ones and four with rides and other events, go and take a look:
Injustice
This is a question that really makes me sad, so i’ll go directly to the center of the theme itself: Hundreds of men and women are are being beaten, tortured, murdered and executed every day somewhere in the world because their sexual orientation. For me, being homosexual is something just hard to accept, but is true and is sad. You just need to take a look at the laws about homosexuality in the world.
Arahan Claveau talk about this in his new installation at Arthole gallery (you can arrive through this SLurl). When you arrive there some notecards give you information about this. The exhibition is centered in the execution in Iran of two guys just for being gay. This two guys were around 18 years old when hanged.
As always Arahan pushes us to contact the pain in reality in that world of escapism that is Second Life, where (almost) nobody cares about an earthquake in China but we all start the biggest drama for a not announced shutdown of the grid. Arahan’s artwork is provocative (what i think is good), and at the same time show the possibilities of Second Life as a creation and expression platform.
This artwork can be considered a continuation of what Arahan started with “Super Fun Happy Club”, an older installation that had some censorship problems with Linden Lab some time ago. Find some images about SFHC here.
Maybe you know Arahan too for “Small Story“, a beautiful tale made with SLphotography.
Arahan is not only someone i’m proud to call a friend, is a great creator, an artist that enlights our (second) lifes showing us the light and the shadows of our (first) lifes… or maybe is in reverse?
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