Open Studio
Tarzan JungleQueen
WHEN
5-6pm, Wednesday 26th Feb 2020
Tarzan JungleQueen is a multi-disciplinary, queer artist living in Darwin. They voyeuristically bring together graphic art, word collage, photography/film, and screenprint to create works that interrogate and deconstruct ideas of gender, mother nature and 'the self.'
Do I seduce you? is a memoir piece that explores their experience as a queer bodied human finding their voice. Sometimes there are no words or blurbs that can sum up the explosion of confusion that comes from within - the juices that need to leak out. Do I seduce you? interrupts the privilege system and gives a queer voice to an unexplainable body. As a queer artist who grew up in a rural area and now lives in the remote city of Darwin, they want to interrupt the geographic privilege of big cities and remind people that queer voices are everywhere and they are finding a way to speak.
Do I seduce you? is their first foray into illustrated text. Through this residency, they have expanded the booklet and experimented with various forms of recyclable ways
to display their images for the accompanying exhibition.
Documentation courtesy of the artist.