{"id":19452,"date":"2009-03-12T17:59:49","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T21:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=19452"},"modified":"2012-09-24T18:00:10","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T22:00:10","slug":"del-lagrace-volcano-a-mid-career-retrospective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=19452","title":{"rendered":"Del LaGrace Volcano: A Mid-Career Retrospective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19453\" title=\"del lagrace\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/del-lagrace.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"346\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Ar<\/em>t, 26 Wooster St at Grand St, NYC, 212-431-2609, Through November 11,<\/p>\n<p>At once photographer and photographic subject, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dellagracevolcano.com\/\">Del LaGrace Volcano&#8217;s<\/a> art consistently refuses &#8220;either\/or&#8221; categories in favor of &#8220;both\/and.&#8221; His\/her art asks the kinds of questions that make their answers provisional and even irrelevant, because the truth is in the asking.Using the body and its signs of identification, Volcano&#8217;s work plays with and against constructions of gender, sexuality, and race, and recasts embodiment as a creative exercise of will power rather than a brute fact of nature. Volcano deploys his\/her intersex gender as a provocation to the traditionally binary gender norm, recognizing that for many, the question of gender, like that of sexuality or race, is not an either\/or equation. As the artist admits, &#8220;My intention is to explode the notion of the truthful body\u2026 Although we all know that the relationship between a photograph and the truth is unreliable at best, we still want to believe what our eyes tell us.&#8221; This is the first museum retrospective of Del LaGrace Volcano&#8217;s art in the country of his\/her birth. It is both an exercise in creative asking, a manifesto against &#8220;nature,&#8221; and testimony to art&#8217;s extraordinary power to create new worlds in which we would want to live.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19454\" title=\"del lagrace1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/del-lagrace1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"354\" height=\"432\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19455\" title=\"del lagrace2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/del-lagrace2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"339\" height=\"432\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19457\" title=\"del lagrace4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/del-lagrace4.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"314\" height=\"432\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, 26 Wooster St at Grand St, NYC, 212-431-2609, Through November 11,<br \/>\nAt once photographer and photographic subject, Del LaGrace Volcano&#8217;s art consistently refuses &#8220;either\/or&#8221; categories in favor of &#8220;both\/and.&#8221; His\/her art asks the kinds of questions that make their answers provisional and even irrelevant, because the truth is in [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[709,2496,2498,717,2497,2499,1810],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19452"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19459,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19452\/revisions\/19459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}