https://veilmachine.com Veil Machine Tue, 13 Jun 2023 19:22:59 +0000 https://veilmachine.com en https://veilmachine.com/Home Mon, 13 Apr 2020 21:52:57 +0000 Veil Machine https://veilmachine.com/Home https://veilmachine.com/Trick-Mirror Tue, 13 Jun 2023 19:22:59 +0000 Veil Machine https://veilmachine.com/Trick-Mirror <img width="3127" height="1564" width_o="3127" height_o="1564" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/20daf1acf3a8721916bde26e5944b2ef1d8724d0c90ff34d240d9e3c2e28c4e6/IMG_2609.jpeg" data-mid="181973008" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/20daf1acf3a8721916bde26e5944b2ef1d8724d0c90ff34d240d9e3c2e28c4e6/IMG_2609.jpeg" /> Trick Mirror: Through the Whore’s Looking Glass A Panel Discussion on The Gaze in Sex Worker Art Featuring Natasha Gornik, Ayanna Dozier, Gabriella Garcia, and Monika Rostvold. When: Tuesday, June 27th 6:30-8:30pm EST Where: Bushwick, Brooklyn and via livestream (address and link sent with RSVP) $10 minimum donation for non-sex-workers. Sex workers are free with promo code.&nbsp;Accessibility info on event page. Tickets The museums are full of whores. Conduits of creative inspiration captured into frames, screens, and pedestals, and locked in by institutions. It is no coincidence that the history of surveillance also began through the impulse to capture whores — from the earliest laws on border control to the development of fingerprint identification and algorithmic profiling. The whore: distorted and deformed into a symbol of alterity. What, then, does the gaze of the whore do? Both over- and underdetermined by the way we are seen, we look back at the world through the looking glass. As the objects of these gazes we have unique insight into not only how they work but even how to play them to work for us. When we gaze – whether upon each other or those who gaze at us – what position do we hold? When reframing the politics of spectatorship through the possible agency of a whore ethic, what becomes possible? Bios Natasha Gornik - I have spent the past two decades photographing and filming sexual subcultures that I deeply identify with. My interest lies in the exploration of self through intimate connection and the experiences born from it. Video and photography have allowed me to document my own evolving identity, as well as my communities. My latest photographic work explores the merging of selves with my spouse. I work and live in Brooklyn, NY. (website / IG / kinky IG) Ayanna Dozier - Ayanna Dozier is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker-artist and writer. Across performance, experimental film, and photography, her work examines how body labor (that includes; sex work, sex clubs, and “illicit” sexual activity in public spaces) are surveilled and criminalized through white supremacist “sight-based” discourse. She is currently an assistant professor in film at University Massachusetts, Amherst and is the author of Janet Jackson’s The Velvet Rope. (website / IG) Gabriella Garcia - Gabriella Garcia is a writer, performer, and poetic technologist. Her work explores the protection of radical self-expression, networked subcultures, and cybernetic intimacy. As co-founder and director of Decoding Stigma, she works toward prioritizing sexual autonomy as a necessary ethics question for futurists. She received her Masters at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), and continued her research as part of ITP’s ‘20-21 postdoctoral residency. She was part of the first C/Change R&amp;D Lab supported by Gray Area and the Goethe-Institut San Francisco, and is currently part of the New Museum’s New INC Y9 cohort. Her work has been presented Institute for Public Knowledge (NYU), Design &amp; Technology Cloud Salon (Parsons), Berkman Klein Center for Internet &amp; Society (Harvard), Hacking//Hustling, and Decriminalized Future's Ladies of the Night School. She sits on the community advisory board for the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (stopspying.org). (website / IG) Monika Rostvold - Rostvold achieved her BFA in 2015 at Texas State University. She finished her MFA in Interdisciplinary Studies at Pratt Institute in 2019. While living in New York Rostvold has worked with many organizations, and institutions to support women's rights including; the Museum of Sex, SOAR Organization, and Stigma Unbound. Rostvold’s artwork has been in many discussions around feminism and has been shared by Cosmopolitan Magazine, Artnews, and Huffington Post. Her artwork shows the reflection of the male gaze. The blatant stares of these men make the viewer a part of the narrative by being their subject of yearning. All the while the viewer sees their competitive sexuality, flaunting wealth, and fragile egos. https://veilmachine.com/Contract Sun, 09 Apr 2023 17:58:54 +0000 Veil Machine https://veilmachine.com/Contract Contract (2021) is a ten-week endurance performance which unfolded through the framework of a BDSM relationship between Cleo Ouyang and Empress Wu, a.k.a. MJ Tom. Cleo played the role of Artist to MJ Tom’s Art Dealer, submissive to her Dominant. The Artist is to produce, and Dealer is allowed to enforce production by any means necessary, including daily check-ins, isolation/confinement (called “residencies”), sleep deprivation, enforced wake-up times, and more. This became a slow and grueling ritual of transformation. Below you’ll find documents from this process, beginning with the physical contract itself, through the different works created by Cleo as part of this process. The final piece is a poem written in alternating stanzas, a dialogue between Cleo and MJ about intimacy. <img width="4500" height="6034" width_o="4500" height_o="6034" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4b590906ae8d2e5f2eb0ab2cad86136a4fb9a8e922068d8acd724291f8646390/Contract_Cleo.jpeg" data-mid="174742567" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4b590906ae8d2e5f2eb0ab2cad86136a4fb9a8e922068d8acd724291f8646390/Contract_Cleo.jpeg" /> <img width="2800" height="4193" width_o="2800" height_o="4193" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/92a6896622ff4af7f7e5f20afd9328580641eae9344acc64b420cdbd7bfd4246/pristine_scars-2.jpeg" data-mid="174741611" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/92a6896622ff4af7f7e5f20afd9328580641eae9344acc64b420cdbd7bfd4246/pristine_scars-2.jpeg" /> <img width="2984" height="2672" width_o="2984" height_o="2672" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f562f99f966d39005c419ab31acbf4b05ee3177b04ce5e94e4282f0c38cdc874/IMG_8805-2.jpeg" data-mid="174741612" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f562f99f966d39005c419ab31acbf4b05ee3177b04ce5e94e4282f0c38cdc874/IMG_8805-2.jpeg" /> <img width="5470" height="3352" width_o="5470" height_o="3352" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/17e443d99314c820c5f2745c3ca4db3f1e0c65857800066a5e9918786c49353e/mother.jpeg" data-mid="174741608" border="0" data-scale="94" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/17e443d99314c820c5f2745c3ca4db3f1e0c65857800066a5e9918786c49353e/mother.jpeg" /> <img width="4914" height="6438" width_o="4914" height_o="6438" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4247757cbea6e3ff81b13949cc6a683d50d97416069ff32ca0484ce52e76d82a/reinventing_intimacy.jpeg" data-mid="174741613" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4247757cbea6e3ff81b13949cc6a683d50d97416069ff32ca0484ce52e76d82a/reinventing_intimacy.jpeg" /> https://veilmachine.com/LAHS-Team Sat, 20 Feb 2021 17:53:45 +0000 Veil Machine https://veilmachine.com/LAHS-Team Cast Open Studio Artists: Shayla Lange: Shayla Lange is a Brooklyn-based Pro Domme and kink educator. She likes dogs (both animal and human), cheese, and long romantic walks down the fasteners aisle of the hardware store. Liminal Praxis: EPB is a writer, visual artist, performer &amp; researcher who plays in the space between theory and practice. In her writing, she parallels her observations of the art world with academic discourse and the politics of sex work. She is the Head Mistress of Liminal Praxis, an online space which contains archival material from performances beginning in 2001 and running through 2021. These performances touch on themes between esoteric &amp; erotic, head spaces &amp; somatic impressions, lived experience &amp; multiple theoretical frameworks. Domme Discordia: Domme Discordia is a professional dominatrix of nine years, currently based in NYC. Discordia, aka Disco, aka Joules McKnuckles' projects have included Thirst Fursdays, a monthly queer art and music residency, pirate transmissions for People Will Radio, hosting absurdist speed dating with Erica Nix, and various engagements with Holodeck Records videos. Panelist Performers: Tina Horn: Tina Horn hosts and produces the long-running kink podcast Why Are People Into That?!. She is also the creator and writer of the sci-fi sex-rebel comic book series SfSx (Safe Sex). She is a LAMBDA Literary Fellow, an AVN nominee, the recipient of two Feminist Porn Awards, and holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction Writing from Sarah Lawrence. Tina is currently working on her first scripts for film and television. You can follower her on Twitter and Instagram @TinaHornsAss Ze Royale: Ze Royale is a writer, performance artist, sexual anarchist, and pleasure activist whose philosophy of subjectivity and individualism is threaded in all of their work. Provocation, eccentricity, and erotic neurosis are shown through visual representation. Ze performs in text, film, and via chanting rituals in the music duo Zoid^. New work: performance installation called Daymares. @ze.royale Empress Wu: Wu is a social media coordinator and digital archivist for arts nonprofits, who enjoys being mean to people for money, and nice to them for free. Her work has been featured in Peachfuzz Mag, Big Medium Gallery, Satellite Art Fair, Leslie Lohman Museum, and Performa 19. Niko Flux: Niko Flux is a Pro Domme by day, traveling artist by night. She is the co-founder of Veil Machine and a member of Red Canary Song. Danielle Blunt: Danielle Blunt (she/her) is a New York City based professional Dominatrix. Blunt is a co-founder of Hacking//Hustling, a collective of sex workers and accomplices working at the intersection of tech and social justice to interrupt state surveillance and violence facilitated by technology. Blunt is on the advisory board of Berkman Klein's Initiative for a Representative First Amendment (IfRFA) and is one of the 2020 recipients of EFF’s Pioneer Award. You can follow her kinky adventures on OnlyFans and AVNStars. Lena Chen: Lena Chen is a Chinese American writer and artist working across performance and social practice. Named “Best Emerging Talent” at the B3 Biennial of the Moving Image (Frankfurt), she has performed and exhibited at Transmediale (Berlin), Die Digitale (Düsseldorf), Museum of Modern Art (Antwerp), Färgfabriken (Stockholm), Tempting Failure (London), and Baltimore Museum of Art, among others. She holds a B.A. in sociology from Harvard University, and is currently pursuing her MFA at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Art, where she holds the Lea Simmons Fellowship. Crew Thea Luce: Luce is interested in the intersections of intimacy and labor, which she explores as a graduate student, curator, organizer, and sex worker rights activist. She is a co-founder of Veil Machine and frequent collaborator with Kink Out. Eli: Eli is a freelance stage manager and a full time coordinator and artist wrangler. She is a frequent collaborator with Kink Out and was on the production team for E-Viction. https://veilmachine.com/LAHS Fri, 19 Feb 2021 22:58:18 +0000 Veil Machine https://veilmachine.com/LAHS From the Rupture emerges Body of Workers We are launching Body of Workers as part of the Eyebeam’s From the Rupture festival, along with the seven other fellows from the Rapid Response for a Better Future residency. We hope you’ll join us for our talks with Juno Mac, Nash Sheard, and our satirical panel discussing Body of Workers and our Eyebeam Residency Phase 1 project, E-Viction. More on all that below: Launch Day ProgramFeb 20th, 2021 (EST) starting 3:10pm:&nbsp;A conversation between Juno Mac + Ze Royale (BoW) starting 4:15pm:&nbsp;A chat between Yin Q &amp; Marr (BoW) + Nash Sheard (EFF) 4:55pm-5:10pm:&nbsp;In the Flesh: Real Artists, Real Studios (shot and edited by Empress Wu, starring Domme Discordia, Liminal Praxis, and Shayla Lange) 5:10pm-5:20pm:&nbsp;Introducing the Body of Workers platform 5:20pm-6:30pm: Low Art/High Standards: A satirical panel examining the relationship between sex work and the art world <img width="1024" height="768" width_o="1024" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6979c02fbcb59930f266c79ded56a65ab1a42238d6dbb8ee59c35e63658894e3/Panel-Poster-2.png" data-mid="99501589" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6979c02fbcb59930f266c79ded56a65ab1a42238d6dbb8ee59c35e63658894e3/Panel-Poster-2.png" /> Low Art/High Standardsis a fictional panel which poses six archetypes from different positions in the sex work movement and the art world in dialogue about the Body of Workers platform and the art piece E-Viction (2020). Each archetype has something to gain. Each holds a different funhouse mirror up to the viewer. As sex working artists, the validity of our creations are challenged at every turn: the erotica we make is censored, and the art we create is unrecognized. Both Body of Workers and E-Viction pose the question: what can we learn from looking at sex work through the lens of art? In this panel, we will explore commodification, the eroticism of censorship, and the political stakes in reclaiming space for sex workers online. While we find ourselves in the midst of a global health crisis, sex workers are also finding themselves in a crisis of access to digital space. Corporations’ rampant gentrification of the internet, along with laws like SESTA/FOSTA, are encroaching on our access to vast swaths of the virtual world. By challenging, parodying, and subverting the politics of online space, these projects seek to reimagine what the internet can be -- not only for sex workers, but for everyone. The panel begins with three screenings of satirical tours of sex workers’ “artist studios,” before launching a discussion of Body of Workers, E-Viction, and the lines between sex work and art. Characters <img width="2764" height="2763" width_o="2764" height_o="2763" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7eb72799daadb9a68d40e42806ee34626b7d7c75df25d2b29f3fb51b9bd8d646/TinaHorn-2.jpg" data-mid="99560906" border="0" data-scale="68" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7eb72799daadb9a68d40e42806ee34626b7d7c75df25d2b29f3fb51b9bd8d646/TinaHorn-2.jpg" /> THE CURATOR [Performed by Tina Horn]A curator at the Contemporary Museum of American Art. Received the “Hot Curatorial Award” in 2020 for their commitment to showing the most titillating art by the most marginalized and tokenized artists across the US. Produced the catalogue Relational Thinking Through Artistic Dialogue.&nbsp; <img width="1027" height="1027" width_o="1027" height_o="1027" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ab8686355ab6f95b15088e02793916f82675c072b041d3de19f63059aa9fabbd/ElRGDr4XIAA05nc-3.jpg" data-mid="99560060" border="0" data-scale="60" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ab8686355ab6f95b15088e02793916f82675c072b041d3de19f63059aa9fabbd/ElRGDr4XIAA05nc-3.jpg" /> THE DEALER [Performed by Empress Wu]Head of The Dealer Gallery, with locations in New York, Los Angeles, and Milan. Their first show Piss/Art was a legendary success, and they are renowned for their capacity to turn art into gold. <img width="706" height="705" width_o="706" height_o="705" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1ca14c1ab280e476a95be821824962e4bf7fea0ed09ef3e9e79e06a77bbffcd6/lena2-2.jpg" data-mid="99560063" border="0" data-scale="64" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/706/i/1ca14c1ab280e476a95be821824962e4bf7fea0ed09ef3e9e79e06a77bbffcd6/lena2-2.jpg" /> THE COLLECTOR [Performed by Lena Chen]Works in a distinguished financial institution, and has a strong interest in supporting sex worker art in every way that makes him feel more generous and necessary. <img width="330" height="330" width_o="330" height_o="330" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9f8e2a7e3c966de7cece227300d15b937ce3415b5b0b7573dfc4da7ca706c374/STF-Summit.jpg" data-mid="99501748" border="0" data-scale="70" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/330/i/9f8e2a7e3c966de7cece227300d15b937ce3415b5b0b7573dfc4da7ca706c374/STF-Summit.jpg" />THE CRITIC [Performed by Ze Royale]The foremost scholar in their field of post-postmodern hyper-criticism. They wrote the book Queering Queerness: Towards Even More Queer Theories of Contemporary Performance. <img width="1813" height="1813" width_o="1813" height_o="1813" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/92e8078eada6e28f034ef7bd04cbe30c177a9f9bf48d8a4003c2987b160b9e14/Niko_Headshot-2.jpeg" data-mid="99560067" border="0" data-scale="61" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/92e8078eada6e28f034ef7bd04cbe30c177a9f9bf48d8a4003c2987b160b9e14/Niko_Headshot-2.jpeg" /> THE ARTIST [Performed by Niko Flux]Almost has a BFA in Painting. Now does bespoke one on one art pieces with high paying collectors. You can find more of her body and work on the Body of Workers platform. <img width="750" height="738" width_o="750" height_o="738" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fff0db51e5a8e381c1ab78bdcfb985db5958b9c702254c1a800d2f1f41232ccf/bench.jpeg" data-mid="99501759" border="0" data-scale="62" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/750/i/fff0db51e5a8e381c1ab78bdcfb985db5958b9c702254c1a800d2f1f41232ccf/bench.jpeg" /> THE LOBBYIST [Performed by Mistress Blunt]The head of a wombyn-led anti-trafficking nonprofit, and a leader of WAP: Wombyn Against Pornos, of course. In 2020 she was recognized as “Mother of the Feminist Movement Award” for having personally rescued dozens of survivors who have since become feminist role models. Cast Open Studio Artists: Liminal Praxis: EPB is a writer, visual artist, performer &amp; researcher who plays in the space between theory and practice. In her writing, she parallels her observations of the art world with academic discourse and the politics of sex work. She is the Head Mistress of Liminal Praxis, an online space which contains archival material from performances beginning in 2001 and running through 2021. These performances touch on themes between esoteric &amp; erotic, head spaces &amp; somatic impressions, lived experience &amp; multiple theoretical frameworks. Shayla Lange: Shayla Lange is a Brooklyn-based Pro Domme and kink educator. She likes dogs (both animal and human), cheese, and long romantic walks down the fasteners aisle of the hardware store. Domme Discordia: Domme Discordia is a professional dominatrix of nine years, currently based in NYC. Discordia, aka Disco, aka Joules McKnuckles' projects have included Thirst Fursdays, a monthly queer art and music residency, pirate transmissions for People Will Radio, hosting absurdist speed dating with Erica Nix, and various engagements with Holodeck Records videos. Panelist Performers: Tina Horn: Tina Horn hosts and produces the long-running kink podcast Why Are People Into That?!. She is also the creator and writer of the sci-fi sex-rebel comic book series SfSx (Safe Sex). She is a LAMBDA Literary Fellow, an AVN nominee, the recipient of two Feminist Porn Awards, and holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction Writing from Sarah Lawrence. Tina is currently working on her first scripts for film and television. You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram @TinaHornsAss Ze Royale: Ze Royale is a writer, performance artist, sexual anarchist, and pleasure activist whose philosophy of subjectivity and individualism is threaded in all of their work. Provocation, eccentricity, and erotic neurosis are shown through visual representation. Ze performs in text, film, and via chanting rituals in the music duo Zoid^. New work: performance installation called Daymares. @ze.royale Empress Wu: Wu is a social media coordinator and digital archivist for arts nonprofits, who enjoys being mean to people for money, and nice to them for free. Her work has been featured in Peachfuzz Mag, Big Medium Gallery, Satellite Art Fair, Leslie Lohman Museum, and Performa 19. Niko Flux: Niko Flux is a Pro Domme by day, traveling artist by night. She is the co-founder of Veil Machine and a member of Red Canary Song. Danielle Blunt: Danielle Blunt (she/her) is a New York City based professional Dominatrix. Blunt is a co-founder of Hacking//Hustling, a collective of sex workers and accomplices working at the intersection of tech and social justice to interrupt state surveillance and violence facilitated by technology. Blunt is on the advisory board of Berkman Klein's Initiative for a Representative First Amendment (IfRFA) and is one of the 2020 recipients of EFF’s Pioneer Award. You can follow her kinky adventures on OnlyFans and AVNStars. Lena Chen: Lena Chen is a Chinese American writer and artist working across performance and social practice. Named “Best Emerging Talent” at the B3 Biennial of the Moving Image (Frankfurt), she has performed and exhibited at Transmediale (Berlin), Die Digitale (Düsseldorf), Museum of Modern Art (Antwerp), Färgfabriken (Stockholm), Tempting Failure (London), and Baltimore Museum of Art, among others. She holds a B.A. in sociology from Harvard University, and is currently pursuing her MFA at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Art, where she holds the Lea Simmons Fellowship. Crew Thea Luce: Luce is interested in the intersections of intimacy and labor, which she explores as a graduate student, curator, organizer, and sex worker rights organizer. She is a co-founder of Veil Machine and frequent collaborator with Kink Out. Eli: Eli is a freelance stage manager and a full time coordinator and artist wrangler. She is a frequent collaborator with Kink Out and was on the production team for E-Viction. https://veilmachine.com/E-Viction Sat, 18 Apr 2020 16:38:55 +0000 Veil Machine https://veilmachine.com/E-Viction E-Viction (2020) <img width="428" height="581" width_o="428" height_o="581" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1050ce56f6acff2a37cb25cd6f3c4b9ba247c4181efbb8af210ca2e00ea46376/image.png" data-mid="84105955" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/428/i/1050ce56f6acff2a37cb25cd6f3c4b9ba247c4181efbb8af210ca2e00ea46376/image.png" /> Date: August 21, 2020, noon to midnightLocation: www.e-viction.net E-Viction is a virtual arthouse / whore gallery event that existed for 12 hours before self-destructing. Log on and be seduced by our virtual peepshow where you’ll have intimate encounters with sex workers and artists making art and sex live on cam. Scroll through performers’ ads, shop art and sex objects at our E-Banned shop, learn about legislation that threatens sex workers and free speech online, join raunchy chat rooms, and protest digital gentrification. But be sure to tune in before it’s all gone at midnight. E-Viction is the only deplatforming you can prepare for in advance. In the midst of this global health crisis, most sex workers must work, gather, and organize online despite being targets of pervasive surveillance and deplatforming. By engaging on a platform that violates SESTA/FOSTA, visitors and performers alike will engage in a new form of civil disobedience. E-Viction is produced as part of the 2020 Rapid Response residency at Eyebeam and supported by Kink Out Events. Cast &amp; Crew Curators: Empress Wu Thea Luce Niko Flux Web Artist: Aarati Akkapeddi Graphic Design: Rena Li Stage Management: Eli Marketing: Lady Euphoria Shayla Lange Yves Olive E-commerce: Shayla Lange Artist Management: Minxy Lopez Finance: Samone Archival Team: cherubirl Abe Urzulka Performers: Apocalyptica cherubirl Darla Devour Empress WuHeidi DarveauxIsis JEVX Kiara Cocky Laur Elias Traynor Lilith Mama Maddox Minxy Lopez (m)Other Rosie X. Royale Squiggles.and.Sluts Stasia Levone Vivienne Vai Ze Royale <img width="2048" height="1126" width_o="2048" height_o="1126" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4031e930a45e4668ec6777a2fc84feaacee73045ecc88b87461c3ff454bd8479/Ef_2b3lXkAAsNST.jpg" data-mid="92873734" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4031e930a45e4668ec6777a2fc84feaacee73045ecc88b87461c3ff454bd8479/Ef_2b3lXkAAsNST.jpg" /> Press ︎&nbsp;“Eyebeam announces artists selected for Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future,”&nbsp;Eyebeam ︎&nbsp;“How Artists Are Trying to Solve the World’s Problems,”&nbsp;NY Times ︎&nbsp;“Sex Workers to Host Self-Destructing Digital Variety Show Against EARN-IT,”&nbsp;Vice ︎ “These Sex Worker Artists Are Hosting a Self-Destructing Online Art Show,”&nbsp;Paper Mag ︎“E-viction – An Urgent, Innovative Protest Project,” Peepshow Media ︎ “‘E-Viction’ sex work event sheds light on ‘digital gentrification’ by self-destructing when it’s over”, Daily Dot ︎&nbsp;La Maison du Rouge Interview ︎ “NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Self-Destructing Art,”&nbsp;Autostraddle ︎ “Anti-Censorship Virtual Art Show E-Viction to Launch on Aug. 21,” AVN ︎ “Anti-Censorship Virtual Art Show E-Viction to Launch on Aug. 21,” Adult Talent List https://veilmachine.com/Sex-Work-Personas Sun, 12 Apr 2020 20:31:43 +0000 Veil Machine https://veilmachine.com/Sex-Work-Personas Sex Work Personas <img width="1132" height="1497" width_o="1132" height_o="1497" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ead659ec173a41e63b16f64c47103b09777532cc70c6140a589703a7546ce5f3/personas.jpg" data-mid="66710009" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ead659ec173a41e63b16f64c47103b09777532cc70c6140a589703a7546ce5f3/personas.jpg" /> Location: Brooklyn, NYC Date: August 2019 Sex Works Personas is a collaboration between current sex workers in New York City. The zine, born during an afternoon of intimacy, laughs, and crafts, is a meditation on how different sex workers navigate the personae, the masks, and the names we produce for our work. For some, these personas have led to new becomings. For a copy, please reach out to veilmachine.nyc (at) gmail.com. https://veilmachine.com/Press Fri, 21 Aug 2020 16:09:45 +0000 Veil Machine https://veilmachine.com/Press Press ︎ “Eyebeam announces artists selected for Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future,” Eyebeam ︎ “How Artists Are Trying to Solve the World’s Problems,” NY Times ︎ “Sex Workers to Host Self-Destructing Digital Variety Show Against EARN-IT,” Vice ︎ “These Sex Worker Artists Are Hosting a Self-Destructing Online Art Show,” Paper Mag ︎“E-viction – An Urgent, Innovative Protest Project,” Peepshow Media ︎ “‘E-Viction’ sex work event sheds light on ‘digital gentrification’ by self-destructing when it’s over”, Daily Dot ︎ La Maison du Rouge Interview https://veilmachine.com/About-Us Thu, 16 Apr 2020 19:37:22 +0000 Veil Machine https://veilmachine.com/About-Us About Us Our PracticeAt its core, sex work, like artwork, is about the interplay between fantasy and reality, intimacy and lies. The Veil Machine, like the sex worker and artist, manipulates through masks. Our group uses a relational and intimate practice to explore these dynamics through art actions. Our central question is: when we pose sex work as a radical art practice, what new worlds are possible? Core Producers Thea Luce Thea (she/her) is a graduate student, organizer, and curator who lives in NYC. She explores sex work as the intersection of feminized labor, magic, technology, and state formation. In addition to Veil Machine she works with Kink Out and Bay Area Workers Support.&nbsp; Empress Wu Empress Wu (she/her) is the chaos-for-pay alter ego of MJ Tom, an NYC-based artist and creative producer interested in investigating alternative modes of kinship available via sex work, queer s/m, and digital landscapes. In addition to Veil Machine, she organizes events and exhibitions for Kink Out and Red Canary Song. She and her work have been featured at the Leslie Lohman Museum, MoMA PS1, and the Performa Biennial. She can also be found on Twitter and Instagram. <img width="1000" height="1500" width_o="1000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8c548138954d2610df500d4e922e068c8dd8c8adb56443fe4f69e171a87983eb/8F26D4F6-CD22-433A-BB2D-B4BF89EE6D3C_1_201_a.jpeg" data-mid="77987896" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8c548138954d2610df500d4e922e068c8dd8c8adb56443fe4f69e171a87983eb/8F26D4F6-CD22-433A-BB2D-B4BF89EE6D3C_1_201_a.jpeg" /> Cléo Ouyang Cléo (she/her) is an artist interested in her own fetishistic desire for art-making, and her relationships with the collaborators that allow her to enact it. https://veilmachine.com/Blog-1 Mon, 20 Sep 2021 18:38:31 +0000 Veil Machine https://veilmachine.com/Blog-1 BLOG