Del LaGrace Volcano

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Del LaGrace Volcano (born as Debra Dianne Wood at 26. July 1957 in Orange , California ), also known as Della Grace and Della Disgrace , is American nationality and works in photography , performance art and activist for non-binary gender identity .

Life

Del LaGrace Volcano was born intersex with male and female gender characteristics and raised a girl named Debra Dianna Wood. Volcano studied photography at the San Francisco Art Institute from 1979 to 1981 and received a master's degree in photography from the University of Derby in 1992 .

In his own Instagram profile, Volcano 2019 explains: "I am a non-binary , gender- non - conformist intersex artist, activist and educator, born in California and Sweden after 26 years in London."

Career

Della Grace was the stage name until the 1990s . After Johnny Volcano married, Del LaGrace Volcano became a stage name to express rejection of binary gender norms and heteronormativity . Early on, Volcano saw itself as "a self-proclaimed hermaphrodite " and also consciously changed the (female) appearance - for example with facial hair in order to break with classic role expectations and gender boundaries. It is about a constant change between the classic gender roles of man / woman. Volcano's profile, written in September 2005, reflects this approach:

“As a gender variant visual artist I access 'technologies of gender' in order to amplify rather than erase the hermaphroditic traces of my body. I name myself a gender abolitionist . A part time gender terrorist. [...] I believe in crossing the line as many times as it takes to build a bridge we can all walk across. "

“As a gender deviating optical artist, I use 'gender techniques' to enhance the hermaphroditic traces of my body instead of obliterating them. I call myself a sex abuser. A part-time gender terrorist. [...] I believe in being able to cross the line as often as necessary until a bridge is created that we can all cross over. "

Volcanos works deal with and question gender roles and their visual representation. Photographs of lesbian subculture, which show sex in public space , sadomasochistic practices and drug and bar culture, for example, represent a rough image that is to be understood as a conscious counter-staging of a “good” image of lesbians.

In 2002 Volcano was part of the Swiss-German documentary Venus Boyz by Gabriel Baur about drag queens . 2012 Volcano had a " retrospective in the mid-career" (mid-career retrospective) in Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in New York.

Works

literature

  • Helena Lea Manhartsberger: Visual Story: "That's me". In: Der Spiegel . No. 36, October 2018 ("Del LaGrace Volcano is intersex. He tried to be a girl for a long time. How does he live today?" Spiegel Online Plus ).
  • Christoper Reed: Art and Homosexuality: A History of Ideas . Oxford University Press, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-19-539907-3 , pp. 237–239 (English, page preview in Google book search: some pages have to be turned forward).
  • Lexicon entry: Della Grace . In: Claude J. Summers (Ed.): The Queer Encyclopedia of the Visual Arts . Cleis Press, San Francisco CA 2012, ISBN 978-1-57344-874-1 , pp. 160/161 (English, page preview in Google Book Search).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karen-Susan Fessel , Axel Schock : Out! 600 lesbians, gays & bisexuals . 3rd, expanded and updated edition. Querverlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89656-052-2 , p.  156 .
  2. ↑ a b c Lexicon entry: Della Grace . In: Claude J. Summers (Ed.): The Queer Encyclopedia of the Visual Arts . Cleis Press, San Francisco CA 2012, ISBN 978-1-57344-874-1 , pp. 160/161 (English, page preview in Google Book Search).
  3. ↑ Del LaGrace Volcano, interviewed by Edward Siddons: Del LaGrace Volcano's best photograph: my blue mascara masculinity. In: The Guardian . August 15, 2019 (English).
  4. ↑ QX Team: Here's LaGrace! In: QX Magazine. July 31, 2014, accessed December 10, 2019.
  5. ↑ Del LaGrace Volcano: dellagracevolcano. In: Instagram . 2019, accessed December 10, 2019; Quote: "I am a non-binary , gender non-conforming intersex artist, activist and educator born in California living in Sweden after 26 years in London."
  6. ↑ a b Note: Despite non-binary gender identity (gender variant) , grammatically masculine word forms are used in this article, in accordance with the Spiegel article from October 2018 under " Literature ".
  7. ^ A b c Christoper Reed: Art and Homosexuality: A History of Ideas . Oxford University Press, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-19-539907-3 , pp. 237–239 (English, page preview in Google book search: some pages have to be turned forward).
  8. ↑ Del LaGrace Volcano: Artist Statement. (No longer available online.) In: dellagracevolcano.com. 2005, archived from the original on September 10, 2016 ; accessed on December 10, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Christina Nord: The beard is real: Photos of Del LaGrace Volcano in "Other Shore". In: taz. the daily newspaper . April 8, 1998, p. 24 (on the “Transexpress” exhibition in Berlin; online at taz.de ).
  10. ↑ Jenni Olson's film review: Such a drag. In: The Advocate. September 2, 2003, p. 55 (English; page preview in the Google book search).
  11. ↑ Lohman Gallery : Del LaGrace Volcano: A Mid-Career Retrospective. In: LeslieLohman.org. September 19, 2012 (English; September – November 2012; curated by Jonathan David Katz and Julia Haas).
personal data
SURNAME Volcano, Del LaGrace
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grace, Della; Della Disgrace (stage name); Wood, Debra Dianna (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American photographer, performance artist, and activist (non-binary)
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Orange , California , USA