Kiss and Tell collective

Kiss and Tell collective

Kiss and Tell is a Vancouver, British Columbia based performance and artist collective whose work is concerned with lesbian sexuality [http://www.thefestival.bc.ca/archive/index.php?perID=2573] . In 1990, collective members Persimmon Blackbridge, Lizard Jones and Susan Stewart used the intense debates with in the queer community around sexual practice in the early 1990's to create the photographic exhibition "Drawing the Line". Their photographs depicted a continuum of lesbian sexual practice ranging from kissing to whipping, bondage, and voyeurism. The project encouraged gallery viewers to comment on what they saw and how it made them feel by writing directly on the walls around the prints; allowing the viewer to "draw the line" and examine their ideas and beliefs about different sexual behaviors [http://www.glbtq.com/arts/photography_lesbian_post_stonewall,3.html] . The show traveled widely in Canada and the USA in the 1990's, as well as showing in Australia and the Netherlands.

Group member Lizard Jones remembers the impact of the show in her community of Vancouver, and beyond: "There was/is a lot to say, and a lot to learn from audiences at our talks. Our first performance piece... "True Inversions", evolved quite directly from those experiences, from a desire to say things that were non-verbal, visual, or more emotive, things that had no place in talks" [http://www.rumble.org/trans/transmission2-1.htm]

"True Inversions" was a multi-media performance that caused a similar stir across the country, and resulted in the book, "Her Tongue on my Theory: Images, Essays and Fantasies" [http://www.thefestival.bc.ca/archive/index.php?perID=2573] which won a Lambda Award in 1995 [http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:rl4tXbeUluoJ:www.givideo.org/videastesAF/Kiss%26TellA.html+Lizard+Jones+%22That+Long+Distance+Feeling%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4&gl=ca] .

Kiss and Tell premiered "That Long Distance Feeling: Perverts, Politics & Prozac" in Vancouver in November 1997 [http://www.givideo.org/videastesAF/Kiss&TellA.html] .

Artist biographies

* Persimmon Blackbridge is a visual artist and writer whose work has focused on lesbian sex and sexual representation, disability culture, and the mental illness system [http://www.clga.ca/About/NPC/BlackbridgeP-149.htm] .

* Lizard Jones is a visual artist, award-winning writer, and performer living in Vancouver, with experience in radio and alternative print media. Her novel, "Two Ends of Sleep", was published by Press Gang Publishers in 1997 [http://www.rumble.org/trans/transmission2-1.htm] .

* Susan Stewart has been producing photography and multi-media performance works since 1978. She also teaches and has an M.F.A. from Simon Fraser University. Her most recent work, "Lovers & Warriors: aural/photographic collaborations," was an installation produced in collaboration with 25 women, mostly lesbians, which explores issues of gender, marginality, and the politics of photographic representation [http://www.cla.purdue.edu/waaw/corinne/KissTell.htm] .

Bibliography

* Kiss & Tell "Drawing The Line: Lesbian Sexual Politics on the Wall". Vancouver, B.C.: Press Gang Publishers, 1991.

* Kiss & Tell (Persimmon Blackbridge, Lizard Jones, and Susan Stewart). "Her Tongue on My Theory: Images, Essays and Fantasies". Vancouver, B.C.: Press Gang Publishers, 1994.

* Blackbridge, Persimmon and Sheila Gilhooly. "Still Sane". Vancouver, B.C.: Press Gang Publishers, 1985.

* Blackbridge, Persimmon. "Sunnybrook: A True Story With Lies". Vancouver, B.C.: Press Gang Publishers, 1996.


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