Geo Wyeth Interview: Transgender Artist On Technology, Failure And Being A Mac Genius (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
The Huffington Post | By Priscilla Frank Posted: 12/05/2012 5:38 pm EST Updated: 12/06/2012 8:19 am EST
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/05/artist-geo-wyeth-transgender-performance-interview_n_2205680.htmlGeo Wyeth is a musician and performance artist who is a rising star in the New York art world. He's also a biracial female-to-male transexual (FTM) who sings openly about living in a world of binaries. His songs are campy and dark, channeling influences and voices like a spiritual puppeteer with brooding vocals that would make Morrissey proud.
For his performance "OUT OF BODY OW! TUF BODY" at Kate Werble Gallery in New York this past January, Wyeth played in a luminescent white tent evoking the architecture of an Apple store. (This resemblance wasn't coincidental; the artist is a former Mac Genius, after all.) We spoke to Wyeth to learn more about his life and work, as well as his incredibly unusual e-mail signature. Scroll down for video and a slideshow.
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HP: What is the relationship between being a "queer artist" and making "queer art," and is your art autobiographical?
[Sighs] My performances come from a very personal place. My work is queer because I am queer. It comes from the kind of life that I lead. For me, being queer and being an artist are sort of synonymous. All the aspects of who I am are present in the work. There are all kinds of things about my identity that come through the work, and that's true for all artists. Someone recently asked me how gender plays into my performance and I found that sort of odd. Of course it does -- it does for everybody. When you see some dude on the stage with his rock band shredding on his guitar, he is also using gender in performance. Of course my work is queer and of course its trans[gender] and it's also coming from someone who likes macaroni and cheese. I hope that all of who I am is present in the work.
