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DEL LAGRACE VOLCANO
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EDUCATION
MA Photographic Studies, University of Derby, UK 1992
Photography Program, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA 1979-81
Visual Studies Program, Allan Hancock College, Santa Maria, USA 1977-79
MONOGRAPHS
SEXWORKS, Konkursbuchverlag, Germany 2005
SUBLIME MUTATIONS, Konkursbuchverlag, Germany 2000
THE DRAG KING BOOK, Serpent’s Tail, London, UK 1999
LOVEBITES, Gay Men’s Press, London, UK 1991
FILMOGRAPHY
GENDER QUEER: QU’EST-CE QUE C’EST?, (collaboration with Cara Lavan) 2005 (5 min) UK
THE PASSIONATE SPECTATOR, 2000 (10 min) UK
JOURNEY INTERSEX, (collaboration with Cara Lavan) 1999 (30 min) UK
A PRODIGAL SON?, 1998 (15 min) UK
PANSEXUAL PUBLIC PORN aka The Adventures of Hans & Del, 1996 (12 min) UK
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
CORPUS QUEER: Bodies in Resistance, Transpalette @ Emmetrop, Bourges, France September 2005
INTERSEX 101: The Two Gender System as a Human Rights Abuse, NGBK, (Group Show) Berlin, Germany June 2005
A BOOST IN THE SHELL, Aeroplastics Gallery (Group Show) Brussels, Belgium May 2005
PAS DE REGRETS, á la Galerie du Forum des Images, Paris, France November 2003
FEMALE TURBULENCE, Aeroplastics Gallery, (Group Show) Brussels, Belgium October 2003
VENUS BOYZ, Zita, Folkets Bio, Stockholm, Sweden May 2002
FALLEN HEROES: Masculinity & Representation, Espai D’Art Contemporani de Castello, (Group Show) Castéleon, Spain April 2002
ONE MAN? SHOW, Babele Gallery, Milan, Italy April 2001
FLUID FIRE, Galleri Format, Malmö, Sweden December 2001
SEX MUTANT, The Nunnery, (Group Show) London, UK August 2000
A KINGDOM COMES, Standpoint Gallery, London, UK July 1999
ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, Melkweg, (Group Show) Amsterdam, Netherlands August 1998
DUKE: KING OF THE HILL, Courtauld Galleries, (Group Show) London, UK November 1999-2001
RETEROSPECTIVE: Del LaGrace, Magazin 4, Bregenz, Austria September 1996
DESIRE, Nordic Arts Centre, (Group Show) Helsinki, Finland; Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden; Louisiana, Humlebæk, Denmark; 1995-97
STREET STYLE, Victoria & Albert Museum, (Group Show) London, UK June 1994
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WORK IN SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
IN A QUEER TIME AND PLACE: TRANSGENDER BODIES, SUBCULTURAL LIVES, Judith Halberstam, NYU Press , USA 2005
QUEER THEORY, Moreland & Willox, Palgrave MacMillan, UK 2005
LES INROCKUPTIBLES, ne plus faire genre, p68-72, Paris, France May 2005
MATADOR, volume G MutatisMutandis, p148-156, Madrid, Spain January 2004
MILLENNIUM FILM JOURNAL, no 41, New York City, USA January 2004
ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY: THEMES & MOVEMENTS, Campany, Phaidon Press Inc, UK 2003
COMO SI NADA, COLLECIÓN JUAN REDÓN, Foto Colectania, Barcelona, Spain 2003
(K)EIN GESCHLECHT ODER VIELE? Transgender in politischer Perspektive, Querverlag, Berlin, Germany 2002
HÉROES CAíDOS MASCULINIDAD Y REPRESENTACION. Espai D’art Contemporani de Castello, Spain 2002
JENNY SAVILLE: TERRITORIES, Gagosian Gallery exhibition catalogue text (“On Being a Jenny Saville Painting”), USA 1999
SECONDS SKINS: THE BODY NARRATIVES OF TRANSSEXUALITY, Jay Prosser, Columbia University Press, USA 1999
FEMALE MASCULINITY, Judith Halberstam, Duke University Press, USA 1998
RROSE IS A RROSE IS A RROSE: GENDER PERFORMANCE IN PHOTOGRAPHY, Guggenheim Museum, New York City, USA 1997
QUEERS IN SPACE: COMMUNITIES/PUBLIC PLACES/SITES OF RESISTANCE, Gordon Brent Ingram, Vancouver, Canada 1997
NOTHING BUT THE GIRL: THE BLATANT LESBIAN IMAGE, Susie Bright & Jill Posner, Cassell, UK 1996
DAMN FINE ART: NEW LESBIAN ARTISTS, Cherry Smyth, Cassell, UK 1996
DAGGER: ON BUTCH WOMEN, Burana, Roxxie, Due, Cleis Press, USA 1994
THE SEXUAL PERSPECTIVE: HOMOSEXUALITY & ART IN THE LAST 100 YEARS, Emanuel Cooper, Routledge, UK 1994
STOLEN GLANCES: LESBIANS TAKE PHOTOGRAPHS, Tessa Boffin & Jean Fraser, Pandora Press, UK 1991
TALKS & LECTURES
TOWARDS A QUEER FEMINIST METHODOLOGY, Lava Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden August 2005
INTERSEX 102: Living It, NGPK Gallery, Berlin, Germany June 2005
TRANS SUBJECTIVITIES, Arteleku, San Sebastian, Spain April 2005
PRODUCTION, CONSUMPTION & THE PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT University of Dublin, Queer Theories Keynote, Ireland March 2005
IDKE6: INTERNATIONAL DRAG KING CONFERENCE, Keynote Speaker, Chicago, USA October 2004
QUEER EMBODIMENT, Film Shorts & Spoken Word, Stockholm Pride, July 2004
QUEERING THE 21ST CENTURY, Uppsala Queer Arts Festival, Uppsala, Sweden February 2004
SPECTACULAR SPECIMENS & SUBLIME MUTATIONS, Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona, Spain April 2004
INTERSEX & TRANS RE-PRESENTATIONS: Slide Show & Lecture Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine, USA April 2004
CRISSCROSS ROADS (collaboration with Indra Windh) Queer Matters Conference, Kings College, London, UK May 2004
TRESPASSERS 1. SITES AND TRANSLATIONS, (Group presentation), Rooseum & Malmö Arts Academy, Sweden December 2004
PUBLIC LECTURE, University of Southern California Centre for Feminist Research, Los Angeles, California, USA October 2004
GENDERFUSION (collaboration with Indra Windh), Queer Story Telling Festival, London, UK October-November 2003
HERMLOVE (collaboration with Indra Windh), Pas de regrets, Forum des Images, Paris, France November 2003
BI-FORUM TALK, Stockholm Pride, Screening of trailer Bi-Views, lecture and discussion, Stockholm, Sweden July 2003
CRITICAL SEXOLOGY SEMINAR, Panel-intersex issues, London, UK November 2003
PUBLIC LECTURE, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA April 2003
ARTIST PRESENTATION, Jon Sims Centre, San Francisco, USA April 2003
A SPECTACULAR SPECIMEN Keynote Speaker, Body Modification Conference, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia April 2003
SUBLIME MUTATIONS: 10 Years of Gender Queer Re-presentations, Artspace, Sydney, Australia April 2003
A SPECTACULAR SPECIMEN, University of Melbourne, Monash University, Victoria College of Arts, Melbourne, Australia May 2003 &
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia May 2003
EYE OF THE STORM, Art & Science Conference, Royal Institute, London, UK February 1998
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WORKSHOPS & PERFORMANCES
CRISSCROSS ROADS, (collaboration with Indra Windh), Northwestern University, Chicago, USA, October 2004
POST PORN WORKSHOP, Technologies of Gender, Musuem of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, Spain April 2004
DRAG KING WORKSHOP, (collaboration with Indra Windh) Queer Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia April 2004
PERFORMING THE TRANSTEXTUAL, (collaboration with Indra Windh) Uppsala Queer Arts Festival Uppsala, Sweden February 2004
BEYOND THE BINARY, (collaboration with Indra Windh), Örebro, Sweden November 2003
DRAG KING WORKSHOP, (collaboration with Indra Windh) Ljubljana, Slovenia December 2003
CRISSCROSS WORKSHOP, (collaboration with Indra Windh) Uppsala, Sweden December 2003
FILM, VIDEO & TELEVISION
5TH EUROPEAN FEMINIST RESEARCH CONFERENCE, Feminist Short Films & Discussion. Lund University, Sweden August 2003
KOBRA ARTS PROGRAM, SVT 1, Sweden October 2002
VENUS BOYZ, Feature Documentary, (protagonist) directed by Gabriel Baur, 2001
IDENTITY CRISIS Channel 4, UK July 2001
JOURNEY INTERSEX Channel 4, UK July 2000 and March 2001
SEX AND THE CITY, HBO, Photographs from The Drag King Book, USA July 2000
THE JONATHAN ROSS SHOW, BBC2, Guest, UK October 1998 and April 1999
IS IT A BOY OR A GIRL?, The Maury Povitch Show, New York City, USA November 1999
HEART OF THE MATTER: MORE SEXES PLEASE, BBC1, Guest, UK September 1998
London August 2005