Nails, But Is It Art • 2007- ∞
Reflections on the artistic value of a hobby
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Nails, But Is It Art • 2007- ∞
Reflections on the artistic value of a hobby
Partnership Schematic
2017
Digital poster
Towards a Partnership Model and Gift Economy was an Euler’s diagram created as part of my application for a digital art residency program which explored the concept of “trust”. I based this image on Franklin Veaux’s non-monogamy map and formatted it to center trust as the core component of relational activity. This map illustrates the interlocking and overlapping themes I have explored for the past 5 years; spanning from BDSM relationships and ecological thought to governmental overreach and digital surveillance.
~click image to view hi-res copy in google drive~
Germ (Wheat)
2022
Hand tooled leather, hardware, charms, ribbon
SPIKED!, 2021
In collaboration with Themba Alleyne for Sacred Sadism
Presented at In Excess: Power Play for Cream Cake’s 3HD Festival, Berlin, DE
“SPIKED!” is a sculptural work that alludes to an ecofetish ravishment fantasy. It ties in elements of ecotage, consensual-non-consent and anarchist direct action. The basis for this fantasy are the ‘tree spiking’ interventions enacted by environmental activists, driving large metal spikes into trees marking them with posters warning of the danger to deter logging companies from cutting them down. If a logger still cuts a spiked tree they consent to the possibility of damaging themself or their saw. Sacred Sadism imagines an inverted power and consent scenario where the tree is no longer a passive victim of the lumberjack’s saw or activists’ spike, but has devised its own form of protection by growing menacing, animate, penetrative spikes of its own. This ravishment fantasy draws from popular vine and tentacle hentai pornography in which an unsuspecting passerby becomes ensnared in the tree’s lustful branches and vines. The tree, however, has chosen to post a sign that warns of its desires and attempts to gain consent through the vague pronouncement of agreement by proximity. This inversion of power calls into question the grey areas present in certain types of BDSM play, the concept of informed consent and paternalistic human intervention on natural environments and organisms.
Disgust, 2021 (teaser)
Video,
In Excess; Power Play for Cream Cake’s Berlin 3HD Fest
“Disgust evolved in humans as a response to pathogenic diseases. Barring the presence of disease-bearing pathogens and bacteria, disgust has come to be applied to systems of injustice from the bottom-up and lobbed towards lower castes and classes from the top-down. Genevieve Belleveau is a relational artist whose work encompasses live performance, objects, writing, video, photo, and new media. Her video “POV: You Disgust Me” is content for Belleveau’s pro-dom vocation and draws on several popular genres of femdom clip porn. Gooning, POV, hypnosis and verbal humiliation are all employed here in synthesis with her dom persona Master Gardener’s care-centered, anti-authoritarian approach to professional domination. In this paradigm, hierarchies are abolished which creates taboo around the omniscient Scientist roleplay performed here. One might think of it as a type of homeopathic healing to play in power dynamics one ultimately wishes to eradicate. Positions of power shift throughout the scene from the soil-sub holding power through the disgust it can elicit to not being worth the Scientists time as she ultimately seeks to eradicate organic, emotional and unpredictable disgust from her ordered objectivity. Belleveau’s work often highlights the more nuanced emotional mainstays of BDSM play that can be illegible to those who first encounter the gothic or dungeon-like aesthetics of the lifestyle.”
Full video available: https://www.manyvids.com/Video/3047553/POV-You-Disgust-Me/
Pressed
Presented at Murmurs LA “As Above So Below” group show, 2019
Video 3:38, looped, liquid latex, polyester, tv frame and stand In partnership with drone videographer Themba Alleyne, models James Thomas Marsh, Chase Coopersmith, Iggy Soliven, Matt Savitsky, Elizabeth Preger and Alex Patrick-Dyck
Full documentation and exhibition notes for my solo show Circlusion at Garden LA now online HERE
New project “Pressed” • with drone photography by Themba Alleyne • model James Thomas Marsh • full series will be on view at Garden Gallery, Los Angeles CA opening October 27th, 2018
From new performance “Seeking Arrangement” created for Girls Who Are Boys exhibition at Flatterschafft Projektraum Basel Switzerland 2017. Curated by Sandrine Huet created in collaboration with Themba Alleyne. Documentation HERE
From my performance Sacred Sadism : Elegy to the Dominator Model in Oslo, Norway for Soppen Performance Festival, curated by Trollkrem. Performed by Jos McKain photos by Birk Thomassen
Sacred Sadism and The Artists Submission, a new work for @electricobjects Art Club. Performed by Jos McKain and photographed by Elizabeth Preger. My visual interview with EO can be viewed here
Model Account is now archived HERE
Photographed by Kelly Kai for The Coven Magazine • read interview here
I spoke with Gabby Bess and papermagazine about Sacred Sadism, my new commission for newhive
Sacred Sadism for NewHive
photographed in collaboration with Sarah Sitkin
Sacred Sadism for NewHive
photographed in collaboration with Sarah Sitkin
Sacred Sadism for NewHive
photographed in collaboration with Sarah Sitkin