Sex Fish; Making of Alien TV show before it

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Subject

experimental, feminist, video art, porn

Description

"I was in this porno with Cheryl Dunye [my ex partner] made by our friend Shu Lea Cheang. Because I was just starting in my first job as an assistant professor at Swarthmore College, so I asked to not be identifable. We screened it as part of the inter-generational programming, Collective Visions: The Past, Present, and Future of Feminist Media. While a little embarassing, I know it's beautiful. And I interviewed Shu Lea on her request when I helped to bring her new film, a feature art porn set in a time after HIV, Fliud-0, to NYC." (as told to Brianna Jones, archivist, as she began to help Alex account for the 200 tapes in this collection).

Shu Lea and Alex went on to engage over the years, most recently in an article they co-wrote about her AIDS film Fluid-0, When Are you Going to Catch up with Me? Shu Lea was also a participant with about 50 or more media feminists in the research meeting Alex recorded as research for what would become Women of Vision. The tape of that research meeting held in NY in 1994 has been annotated and is available here.

(the dub of Sex Fish seemd to have been recorded on a tape after some of a program with behind-the-scenes footage from the making of the film "Alien")