Zackary Drucker's "Gold Standard" Is The Work Of A Blonde Bombshell (PHOTOS) (NSFW)
Posted: 04/ 2/2012 3:21 pm Updated: 04/ 2/2012 3:52 pm
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Zackary Drucker is a transgender performance artist who breaks down the way we think about gender, sexuality and seeing. The artist uses a female pronoun, and through her participatory pieces she complicates established binaries of viewer and subject, insider and outsider, and male and female in order to create a complex image of the self.
"The Gold Standard" is a collection of Drucker's projects, including performances and photography, documentation and exhibitionism, and combinations of the above. In one featured collection, entitled "Distance is where the heart is, Home is where you hang your heart", Drucker, a trans woman, and Amos Mac, a trans man, journeyed back to Drucker's childhood home of Syracuse, New York. As Michelle Tea put it: "There is so much going on here it's insane." To find out more, we asked Drucker and Mac some questions about the work, which we saw at Volta in New York last month. Note: the slideshow contains images that are definitely NSFW.