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This digital album contains images from my 2022-23 "Life is Drag" residency at The Cell in Chelsea, NYC. It includes video stills pulled from the 100+ video portraits created (performances documented), behind the scenes production shots taken during my 6 months at The Cell, and documentation of the two panels I produced and spoke with as a part of this residency -- at Symphony Space (in conjunction with the Municipal Art Society of New York), and at The Cell (in conjunction with Franklin Furnace and CADAF). More info below:
I create bodies of work that explore gender, artifice, and spectacle. Utilizing directorial, curatorial, and anthropological processes, I showcase exuberantly irrepressible personalities who revel in challenging clichés and taboos to rethink and reimagine the gender construct. A sampling of subjects include Girls Girls Girls - the world's first and only all-female Mötley Crüe tribute band, and Tazzie Colomb - the world's longest competing professional female bodybuilder and powerlifter. Since 2019, I have been working exclusively on "Life is Drag" - the largest living digital archive of drag in the United States.
Drag is a poetic synthesis of painting, sculpture, sound and performance. It is also an amalgam of self-discovery, transformation, permission, actualization, revolution, utopia, community, catharsis, and ultimately - radical self-expression. Drag is ART - and life IS drag. And "Life is Drag" has become my (Rachel Rampleman) life's work. I am a one-person production team - handling all research, curation, communication, lighting, shooting, editing, interviewing, archive building, residency outreach, and more. With "Life is Drag", I document the most innovative and singular performers - selected from a wide range of locations, backgrounds, cultures, and ages - who are currently exploding onto the national drag scene. This ever-evolving archive includes documentation of performances and interviews, and over the course of the last several years I have created 350+ video portraits, showcasing 200+ LGBTQIA performers - collaborating with them in my studio, as well as during residencies in New York City, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and New England (so far).
These documented performances and interviews are added to my online archive at lifeisdrag.com, as well as projected or featured as site-specific multi-channel installations at “brick and mortar” venues ranging from spaces like Wave Pool, a non-profit gallery in my hometown of Cincinnati, to the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. I have also produced live events and hosted panel discussions in partnership with organizations such as Symphony Space, Franklin Furnace, and The Municipal Art Society of New York -- about the importance of documenting this important but ephemeral art form, as well as about the current drag bans in the United States and New York’s radical resistance to these worsening restrictions.
Please consider supporting this project, and thank you for checking it out!
Project website:
My artist website:
Supporting institutions:
The Cell
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157718509246159/
Symphony Space & Municipal Art Society of New York
www.symphonyspace.org/programs/life-is-drag
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720309589466
Franklin Furnace &
CADAF
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720310312123
Wave Pool
www.wavepoolgallery.org/exhibitions-archive#/life-is-drag
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720299700834
Bunker Projects & Bloomfield Garden Club
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157719733828390/
3S Artspace
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157714709930241/
I believe Google meant to title the slide from which I took this screen grab, "Multi-Channel Funnels". Alas!
2018
1, 128 channels of sound, speakers, maple, aluminum, screen, computer, custom-made electronics, hardware and software, 1/3
Courtesy of Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul
Sphere Packing: Bach, 2018, and Sphere Packing: Wagner, 2013, are two in a series of 17 works that concentrate the entire musical production of a composer into a single multi-channel sphere. The size of each sphere is proportional to how prolific the composer was: Hildegard von Bingen's bronzed steel sphere is but 11 cm in diameter and comprises 69 channels of sound, while Mozart's white polymer sphere is 35 cm and has 565 channels. In the exhibition, the black-glazed porcelain sphere dedicated to Richard Wagner hangs from the ceiling and visitors have to bring their ear up close in order to hear his Romantic compositions. By far the most prolific composer, Johann Sebastian Bach requires 1,128 individual speakers distributed through a sphere that visitors may physically enter, immersing themselves in its Baroque sounds. The compositions are arranged so that at times only one is audible while at others the piece reaches a musical crescendo, when all 1,128 compositions are playing simultaneously. As in of Lozano-Hemmer's works, Sphere Packing: Bach translates data into physical form, making sound visibly perceptive and transforming immateriality into immersive space.
More about these images:
This digital album contains images from my 2022-23 "Life is Drag" residency at The Cell in Chelsea, NYC. It includes video stills pulled from the 100+ video portraits created (performances documented), behind the scenes production shots taken during my 6 months at The Cell, and documentation of the two panels I produced and spoke with as a part of this residency -- at Symphony Space (in conjunction with the Municipal Art Society of New York), and at The Cell (in conjunction with Franklin Furnace and CADAF). More info below:
I create bodies of work that explore gender, artifice, and spectacle. Utilizing directorial, curatorial, and anthropological processes, I showcase exuberantly irrepressible personalities who revel in challenging clichés and taboos to rethink and reimagine the gender construct. A sampling of subjects include Girls Girls Girls - the world's first and only all-female Mötley Crüe tribute band, and Tazzie Colomb - the world's longest competing professional female bodybuilder and powerlifter. Since 2019, I have been working exclusively on "Life is Drag" - the largest living digital archive of drag in the United States.
Drag is a poetic synthesis of painting, sculpture, sound and performance. It is also an amalgam of self-discovery, transformation, permission, actualization, revolution, utopia, community, catharsis, and ultimately - radical self-expression. Drag is ART - and life IS drag. And "Life is Drag" has become my (Rachel Rampleman) life's work. I am a one-person production team - handling all research, curation, communication, lighting, shooting, editing, interviewing, archive building, residency outreach, and more. With "Life is Drag", I document the most innovative and singular performers - selected from a wide range of locations, backgrounds, cultures, and ages - who are currently exploding onto the national drag scene. This ever-evolving archive includes documentation of performances and interviews, and over the course of the last several years I have created 350+ video portraits, showcasing 200+ LGBTQIA performers - collaborating with them in my studio, as well as during residencies in New York City, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and New England (so far).
These documented performances and interviews are added to my online archive at lifeisdrag.com, as well as projected or featured as site-specific multi-channel installations at “brick and mortar” venues ranging from spaces like Wave Pool, a non-profit gallery in my hometown of Cincinnati, to the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. I have also produced live events and hosted panel discussions in partnership with organizations such as Symphony Space, Franklin Furnace, and The Municipal Art Society of New York -- about the importance of documenting this important but ephemeral art form, as well as about the current drag bans in the United States and New York’s radical resistance to these worsening restrictions.
Please consider supporting this project, and thank you for checking it out!
lifeisdrag.com/support
Project website:
My artist website:
Supporting institutions:
The Cell
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157718509246159/
Symphony Space & Municipal Art Society of New York
www.symphonyspace.org/programs/life-is-drag
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720309589466
Franklin Furnace & CADAF
www.franklinfurnace.org/about-us/
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720310312123
Wave Pool
www.wavepoolgallery.org/exhibitions-archive#/life-is-drag
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720299700834
Bunker Projects & Bloomfield Garden Club
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157719733828390/
3S Artspace
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157714709930241/
More about these images:
This digital album contains images from my 2022-23 "Life is Drag" residency at The Cell in Chelsea, NYC. It includes video stills pulled from the 100+ video portraits created (performances documented), behind the scenes production shots taken during my 6 months at The Cell, and documentation of the two panels I produced and spoke with as a part of this residency -- at Symphony Space (in conjunction with the Municipal Art Society of New York), and at The Cell (in conjunction with Franklin Furnace and CADAF). More info below:
I create bodies of work that explore gender, artifice, and spectacle. Utilizing directorial, curatorial, and anthropological processes, I showcase exuberantly irrepressible personalities who revel in challenging clichés and taboos to rethink and reimagine the gender construct. A sampling of subjects include Girls Girls Girls - the world's first and only all-female Mötley Crüe tribute band, and Tazzie Colomb - the world's longest competing professional female bodybuilder and powerlifter. Since 2019, I have been working exclusively on "Life is Drag" - the largest living digital archive of drag in the United States.
Drag is a poetic synthesis of painting, sculpture, sound and performance. It is also an amalgam of self-discovery, transformation, permission, actualization, revolution, utopia, community, catharsis, and ultimately - radical self-expression. Drag is ART - and life IS drag. And "Life is Drag" has become my (Rachel Rampleman) life's work. I am a one-person production team - handling all research, curation, communication, lighting, shooting, editing, interviewing, archive building, residency outreach, and more. With "Life is Drag", I document the most innovative and singular performers - selected from a wide range of locations, backgrounds, cultures, and ages - who are currently exploding onto the national drag scene. This ever-evolving archive includes documentation of performances and interviews, and over the course of the last several years I have created 350+ video portraits, showcasing 200+ LGBTQIA performers - collaborating with them in my studio, as well as during residencies in New York City, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and New England (so far).
These documented performances and interviews are added to my online archive at lifeisdrag.com, as well as projected or featured as site-specific multi-channel installations at “brick and mortar” venues ranging from spaces like Wave Pool, a non-profit gallery in my hometown of Cincinnati, to the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. I have also produced live events and hosted panel discussions in partnership with organizations such as Symphony Space, Franklin Furnace, and The Municipal Art Society of New York -- about the importance of documenting this important but ephemeral art form, as well as about the current drag bans in the United States and New York’s radical resistance to these worsening restrictions.
Please consider supporting this project, and thank you for checking it out!
Project website:
My artist website:
Supporting institutions:
The Cell
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157718509246159/
Symphony Space & Municipal Art Society of New York
www.symphonyspace.org/programs/life-is-drag
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720309589466
Franklin Furnace &
CADAF
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720310312123
Wave Pool
www.wavepoolgallery.org/exhibitions-archive#/life-is-drag
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720299700834
Bunker Projects & Bloomfield Garden Club
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157719733828390/
3S Artspace
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157714709930241/
More about these images:
This digital album contains images from my 2022-23 "Life is Drag" residency at The Cell in Chelsea, NYC. It includes video stills pulled from the 100+ video portraits created (performances documented), behind the scenes production shots taken during my 6 months at The Cell, and documentation of the two panels I produced and spoke with as a part of this residency -- at Symphony Space (in conjunction with the Municipal Art Society of New York), and at The Cell (in conjunction with Franklin Furnace and CADAF). More info below:
I create bodies of work that explore gender, artifice, and spectacle. Utilizing directorial, curatorial, and anthropological processes, I showcase exuberantly irrepressible personalities who revel in challenging clichés and taboos to rethink and reimagine the gender construct. A sampling of subjects include Girls Girls Girls - the world's first and only all-female Mötley Crüe tribute band, and Tazzie Colomb - the world's longest competing professional female bodybuilder and powerlifter. Since 2019, I have been working exclusively on "Life is Drag" - the largest living digital archive of drag in the United States.
Drag is a poetic synthesis of painting, sculpture, sound and performance. It is also an amalgam of self-discovery, transformation, permission, actualization, revolution, utopia, community, catharsis, and ultimately - radical self-expression. Drag is ART - and life IS drag. And "Life is Drag" has become my (Rachel Rampleman) life's work. I am a one-person production team - handling all research, curation, communication, lighting, shooting, editing, interviewing, archive building, residency outreach, and more. With "Life is Drag", I document the most innovative and singular performers - selected from a wide range of locations, backgrounds, cultures, and ages - who are currently exploding onto the national drag scene. This ever-evolving archive includes documentation of performances and interviews, and over the course of the last several years I have created 350+ video portraits, showcasing 200+ LGBTQIA performers - collaborating with them in my studio, as well as during residencies in New York City, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and New England (so far).
These documented performances and interviews are added to my online archive at lifeisdrag.com, as well as projected or featured as site-specific multi-channel installations at “brick and mortar” venues ranging from spaces like Wave Pool, a non-profit gallery in my hometown of Cincinnati, to the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. I have also produced live events and hosted panel discussions in partnership with organizations such as Symphony Space, Franklin Furnace, and The Municipal Art Society of New York -- about the importance of documenting this important but ephemeral art form, as well as about the current drag bans in the United States and New York’s radical resistance to these worsening restrictions.
Please consider supporting this project, and thank you for checking it out!
Project website:
My artist website:
Supporting institutions:
The Cell
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157718509246159/
Symphony Space & Municipal Art Society of New York
www.symphonyspace.org/programs/life-is-drag
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720309589466
Franklin Furnace &
CADAF
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720310312123
Wave Pool
www.wavepoolgallery.org/exhibitions-archive#/life-is-drag
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720299700834
Bunker Projects & Bloomfield Garden Club
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157719733828390/
3S Artspace
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157714709930241/
More about these images:
This digital album contains images from my 2022-23 "Life is Drag" residency at The Cell in Chelsea, NYC. It includes video stills pulled from the 100+ video portraits created (performances documented), behind the scenes production shots taken during my 6 months at The Cell, and documentation of the two panels I produced and spoke with as a part of this residency -- at Symphony Space (in conjunction with the Municipal Art Society of New York), and at The Cell (in conjunction with Franklin Furnace and CADAF). More info below:
I create bodies of work that explore gender, artifice, and spectacle. Utilizing directorial, curatorial, and anthropological processes, I showcase exuberantly irrepressible personalities who revel in challenging clichés and taboos to rethink and reimagine the gender construct. A sampling of subjects include Girls Girls Girls - the world's first and only all-female Mötley Crüe tribute band, and Tazzie Colomb - the world's longest competing professional female bodybuilder and powerlifter. Since 2019, I have been working exclusively on "Life is Drag" - the largest living digital archive of drag in the United States.
Drag is a poetic synthesis of painting, sculpture, sound and performance. It is also an amalgam of self-discovery, transformation, permission, actualization, revolution, utopia, community, catharsis, and ultimately - radical self-expression. Drag is ART - and life IS drag. And "Life is Drag" has become my (Rachel Rampleman) life's work. I am a one-person production team - handling all research, curation, communication, lighting, shooting, editing, interviewing, archive building, residency outreach, and more. With "Life is Drag", I document the most innovative and singular performers - selected from a wide range of locations, backgrounds, cultures, and ages - who are currently exploding onto the national drag scene. This ever-evolving archive includes documentation of performances and interviews, and over the course of the last several years I have created 350+ video portraits, showcasing 200+ LGBTQIA performers - collaborating with them in my studio, as well as during residencies in New York City, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and New England (so far).
These documented performances and interviews are added to my online archive at lifeisdrag.com, as well as projected or featured as site-specific multi-channel installations at “brick and mortar” venues ranging from spaces like Wave Pool, a non-profit gallery in my hometown of Cincinnati, to the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. I have also produced live events and hosted panel discussions in partnership with organizations such as Symphony Space, Franklin Furnace, and The Municipal Art Society of New York -- about the importance of documenting this important but ephemeral art form, as well as about the current drag bans in the United States and New York’s radical resistance to these worsening restrictions.
Please consider supporting this project, and thank you for checking it out!
Project website:
My artist website:
Supporting institutions:
The Cell
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157718509246159/
Symphony Space & Municipal Art Society of New York
www.symphonyspace.org/programs/life-is-drag
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720309589466
Franklin Furnace &
CADAF
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720310312123
Wave Pool
www.wavepoolgallery.org/exhibitions-archive#/life-is-drag
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720299700834
Bunker Projects & Bloomfield Garden Club
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157719733828390/
3S Artspace
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157714709930241/
More about these images:
This digital album contains images from my 2022-23 "Life is Drag" residency at The Cell in Chelsea, NYC. It includes video stills pulled from the 100+ video portraits created (performances documented), behind the scenes production shots taken during my 6 months at The Cell, and documentation of the two panels I produced and spoke with as a part of this residency -- at Symphony Space (in conjunction with the Municipal Art Society of New York), and at The Cell (in conjunction with Franklin Furnace and CADAF). More info below:
I create bodies of work that explore gender, artifice, and spectacle. Utilizing directorial, curatorial, and anthropological processes, I showcase exuberantly irrepressible personalities who revel in challenging clichés and taboos to rethink and reimagine the gender construct. A sampling of subjects include Girls Girls Girls - the world's first and only all-female Mötley Crüe tribute band, and Tazzie Colomb - the world's longest competing professional female bodybuilder and powerlifter. Since 2019, I have been working exclusively on "Life is Drag" - the largest living digital archive of drag in the United States.
Drag is a poetic synthesis of painting, sculpture, sound and performance. It is also an amalgam of self-discovery, transformation, permission, actualization, revolution, utopia, community, catharsis, and ultimately - radical self-expression. Drag is ART - and life IS drag. And "Life is Drag" has become my (Rachel Rampleman) life's work. I am a one-person production team - handling all research, curation, communication, lighting, shooting, editing, interviewing, archive building, residency outreach, and more. With "Life is Drag", I document the most innovative and singular performers - selected from a wide range of locations, backgrounds, cultures, and ages - who are currently exploding onto the national drag scene. This ever-evolving archive includes documentation of performances and interviews, and over the course of the last several years I have created 350+ video portraits, showcasing 200+ LGBTQIA performers - collaborating with them in my studio, as well as during residencies in New York City, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and New England (so far).
These documented performances and interviews are added to my online archive at lifeisdrag.com, as well as projected or featured as site-specific multi-channel installations at “brick and mortar” venues ranging from spaces like Wave Pool, a non-profit gallery in my hometown of Cincinnati, to the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. I have also produced live events and hosted panel discussions in partnership with organizations such as Symphony Space, Franklin Furnace, and The Municipal Art Society of New York -- about the importance of documenting this important but ephemeral art form, as well as about the current drag bans in the United States and New York’s radical resistance to these worsening restrictions.
Please consider supporting this project, and thank you for checking it out!
Project website:
My artist website:
Supporting institutions:
The Cell
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157718509246159/
Symphony Space & Municipal Art Society of New York
www.symphonyspace.org/programs/life-is-drag
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720309589466
Franklin Furnace &
CADAF
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720310312123
Wave Pool
www.wavepoolgallery.org/exhibitions-archive#/life-is-drag
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720299700834
Bunker Projects & Bloomfield Garden Club
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157719733828390/
3S Artspace
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157714709930241/
Patents: Multi-channel polarized thermal emitter
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Soft lithography microlens fabrication and array for enhanced light extraction from organic light emitting diodes (OLEDS)
With this feature-rich Wi-Fi weather station, you can use your Smartphone to check the temp and humidity in your home or office in real-time, or download and graph the history data by day, month or year. You can even set up alerts to your phone when high or low conditions are met. When your wine cellar gets too hot, for example. The wireless high precision temp/humidity sensor can be mounted up to 150m away, and up to 6 more can be added (sold separately), which can cycle through automatically on the screen.The display can be desk or wall mounted, features large easy-to-read colour digits, and has two brightness settings for day or night. Other features include synchronised Internet local time and date, alarm with snooze, weather trend, comfort level indicator, min/max temp & humidity readings, and the ability to trigger other Tuya compatible IoT devices. Works with Tuya smart & Smart life Apps, and supplied with a mains power adaptor. Soil Thermo-Moisture Sensor available separately: XC0439FEATURES:- Long range 150m wireless Thermo-Hygro sensor- Access from you Smartphone via Wi-Fi- Supports up to 7 sensors
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The eSwap start-up with its enthusiastic team of Gyumrians, inhabitants of the second largest city of Armenia, provides a multi-channel ecommerce management tool with a cutting edge innovation – integrated artificial intelligence, thanks to the assistance of the European Union, under EU4Business EU-SMEDA project.
The project support helped the company to solve the challenges in financing the start-up work: the whole team, previously divided into two to ensure necessary turnover,could now work on eSwap.
More about these images:
This digital album contains images from my 2022-23 "Life is Drag" residency at The Cell in Chelsea, NYC. It includes video stills pulled from the 100+ video portraits created (performances documented), behind the scenes production shots taken during my 6 months at The Cell, and documentation of the two panels I produced and spoke with as a part of this residency -- at Symphony Space (in conjunction with the Municipal Art Society of New York), and at The Cell (in conjunction with Franklin Furnace and CADAF). More info below:
I create bodies of work that explore gender, artifice, and spectacle. Utilizing directorial, curatorial, and anthropological processes, I showcase exuberantly irrepressible personalities who revel in challenging clichés and taboos to rethink and reimagine the gender construct. A sampling of subjects include Girls Girls Girls - the world's first and only all-female Mötley Crüe tribute band, and Tazzie Colomb - the world's longest competing professional female bodybuilder and powerlifter. Since 2019, I have been working exclusively on "Life is Drag" - the largest living digital archive of drag in the United States.
Drag is a poetic synthesis of painting, sculpture, sound and performance. It is also an amalgam of self-discovery, transformation, permission, actualization, revolution, utopia, community, catharsis, and ultimately - radical self-expression. Drag is ART - and life IS drag. And "Life is Drag" has become my (Rachel Rampleman) life's work. I am a one-person production team - handling all research, curation, communication, lighting, shooting, editing, interviewing, archive building, residency outreach, and more. With "Life is Drag", I document the most innovative and singular performers - selected from a wide range of locations, backgrounds, cultures, and ages - who are currently exploding onto the national drag scene. This ever-evolving archive includes documentation of performances and interviews, and over the course of the last several years I have created 350+ video portraits, showcasing 200+ LGBTQIA performers - collaborating with them in my studio, as well as during residencies in New York City, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and New England (so far).
These documented performances and interviews are added to my online archive at lifeisdrag.com, as well as projected or featured as site-specific multi-channel installations at “brick and mortar” venues ranging from spaces like Wave Pool, a non-profit gallery in my hometown of Cincinnati, to the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. I have also produced live events and hosted panel discussions in partnership with organizations such as Symphony Space, Franklin Furnace, and The Municipal Art Society of New York -- about the importance of documenting this important but ephemeral art form, as well as about the current drag bans in the United States and New York’s radical resistance to these worsening restrictions.
Please consider supporting this project, and thank you for checking it out!
Project website:
My artist website:
Supporting institutions:
The Cell
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157718509246159/
Symphony Space & Municipal Art Society of New York
www.symphonyspace.org/programs/life-is-drag
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720309589466
Franklin Furnace &
CADAF
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720310312123
Wave Pool
www.wavepoolgallery.org/exhibitions-archive#/life-is-drag
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720299700834
Bunker Projects & Bloomfield Garden Club
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157719733828390/
3S Artspace
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157714709930241/
PLITZS Swimwear Passion for Fashion 2012 (SPF) “Designer Showcase Presentation” offers a select few talented emerging designers and opportunity to affordably showcase their collections in a professionally produced presentation during the swimwear season without breaking their annual budget.
Our mission is to establish PLITZS Swimwear Passion for Fashion 2012 (SPF) “Designer Showcase Presentation” as the premier fashion event in New York City that offers designers an opportunity to broaden their fan base through multi-channel marketing and exposure to retailers, store owners, buyers, public and the media.
www.plitzs.com/swimwearpassionforfashion
Photos By: Lloyd Crawford
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More about these images:
This digital album contains images from my 2022-23 "Life is Drag" residency at The Cell in Chelsea, NYC. It includes video stills pulled from the 100+ video portraits created (performances documented), behind the scenes production shots taken during my 6 months at The Cell, and documentation of the two panels I produced and spoke with as a part of this residency -- at Symphony Space (in conjunction with the Municipal Art Society of New York), and at The Cell (in conjunction with Franklin Furnace and CADAF). More info below:
I create bodies of work that explore gender, artifice, and spectacle. Utilizing directorial, curatorial, and anthropological processes, I showcase exuberantly irrepressible personalities who revel in challenging clichés and taboos to rethink and reimagine the gender construct. A sampling of subjects include Girls Girls Girls - the world's first and only all-female Mötley Crüe tribute band, and Tazzie Colomb - the world's longest competing professional female bodybuilder and powerlifter. Since 2019, I have been working exclusively on "Life is Drag" - the largest living digital archive of drag in the United States.
Drag is a poetic synthesis of painting, sculpture, sound and performance. It is also an amalgam of self-discovery, transformation, permission, actualization, revolution, utopia, community, catharsis, and ultimately - radical self-expression. Drag is ART - and life IS drag. And "Life is Drag" has become my (Rachel Rampleman) life's work. I am a one-person production team - handling all research, curation, communication, lighting, shooting, editing, interviewing, archive building, residency outreach, and more. With "Life is Drag", I document the most innovative and singular performers - selected from a wide range of locations, backgrounds, cultures, and ages - who are currently exploding onto the national drag scene. This ever-evolving archive includes documentation of performances and interviews, and over the course of the last several years I have created 350+ video portraits, showcasing 200+ LGBTQIA performers - collaborating with them in my studio, as well as during residencies in New York City, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and New England (so far).
These documented performances and interviews are added to my online archive at lifeisdrag.com, as well as projected or featured as site-specific multi-channel installations at “brick and mortar” venues ranging from spaces like Wave Pool, a non-profit gallery in my hometown of Cincinnati, to the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. I have also produced live events and hosted panel discussions in partnership with organizations such as Symphony Space, Franklin Furnace, and The Municipal Art Society of New York -- about the importance of documenting this important but ephemeral art form, as well as about the current drag bans in the United States and New York’s radical resistance to these worsening restrictions.
Please consider supporting this project, and thank you for checking it out!
Project website:
My artist website:
Supporting institutions:
The Cell
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157718509246159/
Symphony Space & Municipal Art Society of New York
www.symphonyspace.org/programs/life-is-drag
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720309589466
Franklin Furnace &
CADAF
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720310312123
Wave Pool
www.wavepoolgallery.org/exhibitions-archive#/life-is-drag
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720299700834
Bunker Projects & Bloomfield Garden Club
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157719733828390/
3S Artspace
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157714709930241/
More about these images:
This digital album contains images from my 2022-23 "Life is Drag" residency at The Cell in Chelsea, NYC. It includes video stills pulled from the 100+ video portraits created (performances documented), behind the scenes production shots taken during my 6 months at The Cell, and documentation of the two panels I produced and spoke with as a part of this residency -- at Symphony Space (in conjunction with the Municipal Art Society of New York), and at The Cell (in conjunction with Franklin Furnace and CADAF). More info below:
I create bodies of work that explore gender, artifice, and spectacle. Utilizing directorial, curatorial, and anthropological processes, I showcase exuberantly irrepressible personalities who revel in challenging clichés and taboos to rethink and reimagine the gender construct. A sampling of subjects include Girls Girls Girls - the world's first and only all-female Mötley Crüe tribute band, and Tazzie Colomb - the world's longest competing professional female bodybuilder and powerlifter. Since 2019, I have been working exclusively on "Life is Drag" - the largest living digital archive of drag in the United States.
Drag is a poetic synthesis of painting, sculpture, sound and performance. It is also an amalgam of self-discovery, transformation, permission, actualization, revolution, utopia, community, catharsis, and ultimately - radical self-expression. Drag is ART - and life IS drag. And "Life is Drag" has become my (Rachel Rampleman) life's work. I am a one-person production team - handling all research, curation, communication, lighting, shooting, editing, interviewing, archive building, residency outreach, and more. With "Life is Drag", I document the most innovative and singular performers - selected from a wide range of locations, backgrounds, cultures, and ages - who are currently exploding onto the national drag scene. This ever-evolving archive includes documentation of performances and interviews, and over the course of the last several years I have created 350+ video portraits, showcasing 200+ LGBTQIA performers - collaborating with them in my studio, as well as during residencies in New York City, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and New England (so far).
These documented performances and interviews are added to my online archive at lifeisdrag.com, as well as projected or featured as site-specific multi-channel installations at “brick and mortar” venues ranging from spaces like Wave Pool, a non-profit gallery in my hometown of Cincinnati, to the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. I have also produced live events and hosted panel discussions in partnership with organizations such as Symphony Space, Franklin Furnace, and The Municipal Art Society of New York -- about the importance of documenting this important but ephemeral art form, as well as about the current drag bans in the United States and New York’s radical resistance to these worsening restrictions.
Please consider supporting this project, and thank you for checking it out!
lifeisdrag.com/support
Project website:
My artist website:
Supporting institutions:
The Cell
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157718509246159/
Symphony Space & Municipal Art Society of New York
www.symphonyspace.org/programs/life-is-drag
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720309589466
Franklin Furnace & CADAF
www.franklinfurnace.org/about-us/
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720310312123
Wave Pool
www.wavepoolgallery.org/exhibitions-archive#/life-is-drag
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720299700834
Bunker Projects & Bloomfield Garden Club
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157719733828390/
3S Artspace
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157714709930241/
More about these images:
This digital album contains images from my 2022-23 "Life is Drag" residency at The Cell in Chelsea, NYC. It includes video stills pulled from the 100+ video portraits created (performances documented), behind the scenes production shots taken during my 6 months at The Cell, and documentation of the two panels I produced and spoke with as a part of this residency -- at Symphony Space (in conjunction with the Municipal Art Society of New York), and at The Cell (in conjunction with Franklin Furnace and CADAF). More info below:
I create bodies of work that explore gender, artifice, and spectacle. Utilizing directorial, curatorial, and anthropological processes, I showcase exuberantly irrepressible personalities who revel in challenging clichés and taboos to rethink and reimagine the gender construct. A sampling of subjects include Girls Girls Girls - the world's first and only all-female Mötley Crüe tribute band, and Tazzie Colomb - the world's longest competing professional female bodybuilder and powerlifter. Since 2019, I have been working exclusively on "Life is Drag" - the largest living digital archive of drag in the United States.
Drag is a poetic synthesis of painting, sculpture, sound and performance. It is also an amalgam of self-discovery, transformation, permission, actualization, revolution, utopia, community, catharsis, and ultimately - radical self-expression. Drag is ART - and life IS drag. And "Life is Drag" has become my (Rachel Rampleman) life's work. I am a one-person production team - handling all research, curation, communication, lighting, shooting, editing, interviewing, archive building, residency outreach, and more. With "Life is Drag", I document the most innovative and singular performers - selected from a wide range of locations, backgrounds, cultures, and ages - who are currently exploding onto the national drag scene. This ever-evolving archive includes documentation of performances and interviews, and over the course of the last several years I have created 350+ video portraits, showcasing 200+ LGBTQIA performers - collaborating with them in my studio, as well as during residencies in New York City, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and New England (so far).
These documented performances and interviews are added to my online archive at lifeisdrag.com, as well as projected or featured as site-specific multi-channel installations at “brick and mortar” venues ranging from spaces like Wave Pool, a non-profit gallery in my hometown of Cincinnati, to the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. I have also produced live events and hosted panel discussions in partnership with organizations such as Symphony Space, Franklin Furnace, and The Municipal Art Society of New York -- about the importance of documenting this important but ephemeral art form, as well as about the current drag bans in the United States and New York’s radical resistance to these worsening restrictions.
Please consider supporting this project, and thank you for checking it out!
lifeisdrag.com/support
Project website:
My artist website:
Supporting institutions:
The Cell
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157718509246159/
Symphony Space & Municipal Art Society of New York
www.symphonyspace.org/programs/life-is-drag
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720309589466
Franklin Furnace & CADAF
www.franklinfurnace.org/about-us/
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720310312123
Wave Pool
www.wavepoolgallery.org/exhibitions-archive#/life-is-drag
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720299700834
Bunker Projects & Bloomfield Garden Club
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157719733828390/
3S Artspace
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157714709930241/
More about these images:
This digital album contains images from my 2022-23 "Life is Drag" residency at The Cell in Chelsea, NYC. It includes video stills pulled from the 100+ video portraits created (performances documented), behind the scenes production shots taken during my 6 months at The Cell, and documentation of the two panels I produced and spoke with as a part of this residency -- at Symphony Space (in conjunction with the Municipal Art Society of New York), and at The Cell (in conjunction with Franklin Furnace and CADAF). More info below:
I create bodies of work that explore gender, artifice, and spectacle. Utilizing directorial, curatorial, and anthropological processes, I showcase exuberantly irrepressible personalities who revel in challenging clichés and taboos to rethink and reimagine the gender construct. A sampling of subjects include Girls Girls Girls - the world's first and only all-female Mötley Crüe tribute band, and Tazzie Colomb - the world's longest competing professional female bodybuilder and powerlifter. Since 2019, I have been working exclusively on "Life is Drag" - the largest living digital archive of drag in the United States.
Drag is a poetic synthesis of painting, sculpture, sound and performance. It is also an amalgam of self-discovery, transformation, permission, actualization, revolution, utopia, community, catharsis, and ultimately - radical self-expression. Drag is ART - and life IS drag. And "Life is Drag" has become my (Rachel Rampleman) life's work. I am a one-person production team - handling all research, curation, communication, lighting, shooting, editing, interviewing, archive building, residency outreach, and more. With "Life is Drag", I document the most innovative and singular performers - selected from a wide range of locations, backgrounds, cultures, and ages - who are currently exploding onto the national drag scene. This ever-evolving archive includes documentation of performances and interviews, and over the course of the last several years I have created 350+ video portraits, showcasing 200+ LGBTQIA performers - collaborating with them in my studio, as well as during residencies in New York City, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and New England (so far).
These documented performances and interviews are added to my online archive at lifeisdrag.com, as well as projected or featured as site-specific multi-channel installations at “brick and mortar” venues ranging from spaces like Wave Pool, a non-profit gallery in my hometown of Cincinnati, to the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. I have also produced live events and hosted panel discussions in partnership with organizations such as Symphony Space, Franklin Furnace, and The Municipal Art Society of New York -- about the importance of documenting this important but ephemeral art form, as well as about the current drag bans in the United States and New York’s radical resistance to these worsening restrictions.
Please consider supporting this project, and thank you for checking it out!
Project website:
My artist website:
Supporting institutions:
The Cell
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157718509246159/
Symphony Space & Municipal Art Society of New York
www.symphonyspace.org/programs/life-is-drag
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720309589466
Franklin Furnace &
CADAF
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720310312123
Wave Pool
www.wavepoolgallery.org/exhibitions-archive#/life-is-drag
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720299700834
Bunker Projects & Bloomfield Garden Club
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157719733828390/
3S Artspace
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157714709930241/
More about these images:
This digital album contains images from my 2022-23 "Life is Drag" residency at The Cell in Chelsea, NYC. It includes video stills pulled from the 100+ video portraits created (performances documented), behind the scenes production shots taken during my 6 months at The Cell, and documentation of the two panels I produced and spoke with as a part of this residency -- at Symphony Space (in conjunction with the Municipal Art Society of New York), and at The Cell (in conjunction with Franklin Furnace and CADAF). More info below:
I create bodies of work that explore gender, artifice, and spectacle. Utilizing directorial, curatorial, and anthropological processes, I showcase exuberantly irrepressible personalities who revel in challenging clichés and taboos to rethink and reimagine the gender construct. A sampling of subjects include Girls Girls Girls - the world's first and only all-female Mötley Crüe tribute band, and Tazzie Colomb - the world's longest competing professional female bodybuilder and powerlifter. Since 2019, I have been working exclusively on "Life is Drag" - the largest living digital archive of drag in the United States.
Drag is a poetic synthesis of painting, sculpture, sound and performance. It is also an amalgam of self-discovery, transformation, permission, actualization, revolution, utopia, community, catharsis, and ultimately - radical self-expression. Drag is ART - and life IS drag. And "Life is Drag" has become my (Rachel Rampleman) life's work. I am a one-person production team - handling all research, curation, communication, lighting, shooting, editing, interviewing, archive building, residency outreach, and more. With "Life is Drag", I document the most innovative and singular performers - selected from a wide range of locations, backgrounds, cultures, and ages - who are currently exploding onto the national drag scene. This ever-evolving archive includes documentation of performances and interviews, and over the course of the last several years I have created 350+ video portraits, showcasing 200+ LGBTQIA performers - collaborating with them in my studio, as well as during residencies in New York City, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and New England (so far).
These documented performances and interviews are added to my online archive at lifeisdrag.com, as well as projected or featured as site-specific multi-channel installations at “brick and mortar” venues ranging from spaces like Wave Pool, a non-profit gallery in my hometown of Cincinnati, to the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. I have also produced live events and hosted panel discussions in partnership with organizations such as Symphony Space, Franklin Furnace, and The Municipal Art Society of New York -- about the importance of documenting this important but ephemeral art form, as well as about the current drag bans in the United States and New York’s radical resistance to these worsening restrictions.
Please consider supporting this project, and thank you for checking it out!
Project website:
My artist website:
Supporting institutions:
The Cell
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157718509246159/
Symphony Space & Municipal Art Society of New York
www.symphonyspace.org/programs/life-is-drag
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720309589466
Franklin Furnace &
CADAF
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720310312123
Wave Pool
www.wavepoolgallery.org/exhibitions-archive#/life-is-drag
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720299700834
Bunker Projects & Bloomfield Garden Club
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157719733828390/
3S Artspace
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157714709930241/
More about these images:
This digital album contains images from my 2022-23 "Life is Drag" residency at The Cell in Chelsea, NYC. It includes video stills pulled from the 100+ video portraits created (performances documented), behind the scenes production shots taken during my 6 months at The Cell, and documentation of the two panels I produced and spoke with as a part of this residency -- at Symphony Space (in conjunction with the Municipal Art Society of New York), and at The Cell (in conjunction with Franklin Furnace and CADAF). More info below:
I create bodies of work that explore gender, artifice, and spectacle. Utilizing directorial, curatorial, and anthropological processes, I showcase exuberantly irrepressible personalities who revel in challenging clichés and taboos to rethink and reimagine the gender construct. A sampling of subjects include Girls Girls Girls - the world's first and only all-female Mötley Crüe tribute band, and Tazzie Colomb - the world's longest competing professional female bodybuilder and powerlifter. Since 2019, I have been working exclusively on "Life is Drag" - the largest living digital archive of drag in the United States.
Drag is a poetic synthesis of painting, sculpture, sound and performance. It is also an amalgam of self-discovery, transformation, permission, actualization, revolution, utopia, community, catharsis, and ultimately - radical self-expression. Drag is ART - and life IS drag. And "Life is Drag" has become my (Rachel Rampleman) life's work. I am a one-person production team - handling all research, curation, communication, lighting, shooting, editing, interviewing, archive building, residency outreach, and more. With "Life is Drag", I document the most innovative and singular performers - selected from a wide range of locations, backgrounds, cultures, and ages - who are currently exploding onto the national drag scene. This ever-evolving archive includes documentation of performances and interviews, and over the course of the last several years I have created 350+ video portraits, showcasing 200+ LGBTQIA performers - collaborating with them in my studio, as well as during residencies in New York City, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and New England (so far).
These documented performances and interviews are added to my online archive at lifeisdrag.com, as well as projected or featured as site-specific multi-channel installations at “brick and mortar” venues ranging from spaces like Wave Pool, a non-profit gallery in my hometown of Cincinnati, to the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. I have also produced live events and hosted panel discussions in partnership with organizations such as Symphony Space, Franklin Furnace, and The Municipal Art Society of New York -- about the importance of documenting this important but ephemeral art form, as well as about the current drag bans in the United States and New York’s radical resistance to these worsening restrictions.
Please consider supporting this project, and thank you for checking it out!
lifeisdrag.com/support
Project website:
My artist website:
Supporting institutions:
The Cell
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157718509246159/
Symphony Space & Municipal Art Society of New York
www.symphonyspace.org/programs/life-is-drag
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720309589466
Franklin Furnace & CADAF
www.franklinfurnace.org/about-us/
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720310312123
Wave Pool
www.wavepoolgallery.org/exhibitions-archive#/life-is-drag
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720299700834
Bunker Projects & Bloomfield Garden Club
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157719733828390/
3S Artspace
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157714709930241/
More about these images:
This digital album contains images from my 2022-23 "Life is Drag" residency at The Cell in Chelsea, NYC. It includes video stills pulled from the 100+ video portraits created (performances documented), behind the scenes production shots taken during my 6 months at The Cell, and documentation of the two panels I produced and spoke with as a part of this residency -- at Symphony Space (in conjunction with the Municipal Art Society of New York), and at The Cell (in conjunction with Franklin Furnace and CADAF). More info below:
I create bodies of work that explore gender, artifice, and spectacle. Utilizing directorial, curatorial, and anthropological processes, I showcase exuberantly irrepressible personalities who revel in challenging clichés and taboos to rethink and reimagine the gender construct. A sampling of subjects include Girls Girls Girls - the world's first and only all-female Mötley Crüe tribute band, and Tazzie Colomb - the world's longest competing professional female bodybuilder and powerlifter. Since 2019, I have been working exclusively on "Life is Drag" - the largest living digital archive of drag in the United States.
Drag is a poetic synthesis of painting, sculpture, sound and performance. It is also an amalgam of self-discovery, transformation, permission, actualization, revolution, utopia, community, catharsis, and ultimately - radical self-expression. Drag is ART - and life IS drag. And "Life is Drag" has become my (Rachel Rampleman) life's work. I am a one-person production team - handling all research, curation, communication, lighting, shooting, editing, interviewing, archive building, residency outreach, and more. With "Life is Drag", I document the most innovative and singular performers - selected from a wide range of locations, backgrounds, cultures, and ages - who are currently exploding onto the national drag scene. This ever-evolving archive includes documentation of performances and interviews, and over the course of the last several years I have created 350+ video portraits, showcasing 200+ LGBTQIA performers - collaborating with them in my studio, as well as during residencies in New York City, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and New England (so far).
These documented performances and interviews are added to my online archive at lifeisdrag.com, as well as projected or featured as site-specific multi-channel installations at “brick and mortar” venues ranging from spaces like Wave Pool, a non-profit gallery in my hometown of Cincinnati, to the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. I have also produced live events and hosted panel discussions in partnership with organizations such as Symphony Space, Franklin Furnace, and The Municipal Art Society of New York -- about the importance of documenting this important but ephemeral art form, as well as about the current drag bans in the United States and New York’s radical resistance to these worsening restrictions.
Please consider supporting this project, and thank you for checking it out!
lifeisdrag.com/support
Project website:
My artist website:
Supporting institutions:
The Cell
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157718509246159/
Symphony Space & Municipal Art Society of New York
www.symphonyspace.org/programs/life-is-drag
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720309589466
Franklin Furnace & CADAF
www.franklinfurnace.org/about-us/
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720310312123
Wave Pool
www.wavepoolgallery.org/exhibitions-archive#/life-is-drag
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720299700834
Bunker Projects & Bloomfield Garden Club
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157719733828390/
3S Artspace
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157714709930241/
More about these images:
This digital album contains images from my 2022-23 "Life is Drag" residency at The Cell in Chelsea, NYC. It includes video stills pulled from the 100+ video portraits created (performances documented), behind the scenes production shots taken during my 6 months at The Cell, and documentation of the two panels I produced and spoke with as a part of this residency -- at Symphony Space (in conjunction with the Municipal Art Society of New York), and at The Cell (in conjunction with Franklin Furnace and CADAF). More info below:
I create bodies of work that explore gender, artifice, and spectacle. Utilizing directorial, curatorial, and anthropological processes, I showcase exuberantly irrepressible personalities who revel in challenging clichés and taboos to rethink and reimagine the gender construct. A sampling of subjects include Girls Girls Girls - the world's first and only all-female Mötley Crüe tribute band, and Tazzie Colomb - the world's longest competing professional female bodybuilder and powerlifter. Since 2019, I have been working exclusively on "Life is Drag" - the largest living digital archive of drag in the United States.
Drag is a poetic synthesis of painting, sculpture, sound and performance. It is also an amalgam of self-discovery, transformation, permission, actualization, revolution, utopia, community, catharsis, and ultimately - radical self-expression. Drag is ART - and life IS drag. And "Life is Drag" has become my (Rachel Rampleman) life's work. I am a one-person production team - handling all research, curation, communication, lighting, shooting, editing, interviewing, archive building, residency outreach, and more. With "Life is Drag", I document the most innovative and singular performers - selected from a wide range of locations, backgrounds, cultures, and ages - who are currently exploding onto the national drag scene. This ever-evolving archive includes documentation of performances and interviews, and over the course of the last several years I have created 350+ video portraits, showcasing 200+ LGBTQIA performers - collaborating with them in my studio, as well as during residencies in New York City, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and New England (so far).
These documented performances and interviews are added to my online archive at lifeisdrag.com, as well as projected or featured as site-specific multi-channel installations at “brick and mortar” venues ranging from spaces like Wave Pool, a non-profit gallery in my hometown of Cincinnati, to the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. I have also produced live events and hosted panel discussions in partnership with organizations such as Symphony Space, Franklin Furnace, and The Municipal Art Society of New York -- about the importance of documenting this important but ephemeral art form, as well as about the current drag bans in the United States and New York’s radical resistance to these worsening restrictions.
Please consider supporting this project, and thank you for checking it out!
lifeisdrag.com/support
Project website:
My artist website:
Supporting institutions:
The Cell
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157718509246159/
Symphony Space & Municipal Art Society of New York
www.symphonyspace.org/programs/life-is-drag
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720309589466
Franklin Furnace & CADAF
www.franklinfurnace.org/about-us/
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720310312123
Wave Pool
www.wavepoolgallery.org/exhibitions-archive#/life-is-drag
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720299700834
Bunker Projects & Bloomfield Garden Club
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157719733828390/
3S Artspace
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157714709930241/
More about these images:
This digital album contains images from my 2022-23 "Life is Drag" residency at The Cell in Chelsea, NYC. It includes video stills pulled from the 100+ video portraits created (performances documented), behind the scenes production shots taken during my 6 months at The Cell, and documentation of the two panels I produced and spoke with as a part of this residency -- at Symphony Space (in conjunction with the Municipal Art Society of New York), and at The Cell (in conjunction with Franklin Furnace and CADAF). More info below:
I create bodies of work that explore gender, artifice, and spectacle. Utilizing directorial, curatorial, and anthropological processes, I showcase exuberantly irrepressible personalities who revel in challenging clichés and taboos to rethink and reimagine the gender construct. A sampling of subjects include Girls Girls Girls - the world's first and only all-female Mötley Crüe tribute band, and Tazzie Colomb - the world's longest competing professional female bodybuilder and powerlifter. Since 2019, I have been working exclusively on "Life is Drag" - the largest living digital archive of drag in the United States.
Drag is a poetic synthesis of painting, sculpture, sound and performance. It is also an amalgam of self-discovery, transformation, permission, actualization, revolution, utopia, community, catharsis, and ultimately - radical self-expression. Drag is ART - and life IS drag. And "Life is Drag" has become my (Rachel Rampleman) life's work. I am a one-person production team - handling all research, curation, communication, lighting, shooting, editing, interviewing, archive building, residency outreach, and more. With "Life is Drag", I document the most innovative and singular performers - selected from a wide range of locations, backgrounds, cultures, and ages - who are currently exploding onto the national drag scene. This ever-evolving archive includes documentation of performances and interviews, and over the course of the last several years I have created 350+ video portraits, showcasing 200+ LGBTQIA performers - collaborating with them in my studio, as well as during residencies in New York City, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and New England (so far).
These documented performances and interviews are added to my online archive at lifeisdrag.com, as well as projected or featured as site-specific multi-channel installations at “brick and mortar” venues ranging from spaces like Wave Pool, a non-profit gallery in my hometown of Cincinnati, to the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. I have also produced live events and hosted panel discussions in partnership with organizations such as Symphony Space, Franklin Furnace, and The Municipal Art Society of New York -- about the importance of documenting this important but ephemeral art form, as well as about the current drag bans in the United States and New York’s radical resistance to these worsening restrictions.
Please consider supporting this project, and thank you for checking it out!
Project website:
My artist website:
Supporting institutions:
The Cell
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157718509246159/
Symphony Space & Municipal Art Society of New York
www.symphonyspace.org/programs/life-is-drag
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720309589466
Franklin Furnace &
CADAF
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720310312123
Wave Pool
www.wavepoolgallery.org/exhibitions-archive#/life-is-drag
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720299700834
Bunker Projects & Bloomfield Garden Club
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157719733828390/
3S Artspace
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157714709930241/
More about these images:
This digital album contains images from my 2022-23 "Life is Drag" residency at The Cell in Chelsea, NYC. It includes video stills pulled from the 100+ video portraits created (performances documented), behind the scenes production shots taken during my 6 months at The Cell, and documentation of the two panels I produced and spoke with as a part of this residency -- at Symphony Space (in conjunction with the Municipal Art Society of New York), and at The Cell (in conjunction with Franklin Furnace and CADAF). More info below:
I create bodies of work that explore gender, artifice, and spectacle. Utilizing directorial, curatorial, and anthropological processes, I showcase exuberantly irrepressible personalities who revel in challenging clichés and taboos to rethink and reimagine the gender construct. A sampling of subjects include Girls Girls Girls - the world's first and only all-female Mötley Crüe tribute band, and Tazzie Colomb - the world's longest competing professional female bodybuilder and powerlifter. Since 2019, I have been working exclusively on "Life is Drag" - the largest living digital archive of drag in the United States.
Drag is a poetic synthesis of painting, sculpture, sound and performance. It is also an amalgam of self-discovery, transformation, permission, actualization, revolution, utopia, community, catharsis, and ultimately - radical self-expression. Drag is ART - and life IS drag. And "Life is Drag" has become my (Rachel Rampleman) life's work. I am a one-person production team - handling all research, curation, communication, lighting, shooting, editing, interviewing, archive building, residency outreach, and more. With "Life is Drag", I document the most innovative and singular performers - selected from a wide range of locations, backgrounds, cultures, and ages - who are currently exploding onto the national drag scene. This ever-evolving archive includes documentation of performances and interviews, and over the course of the last several years I have created 350+ video portraits, showcasing 200+ LGBTQIA performers - collaborating with them in my studio, as well as during residencies in New York City, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and New England (so far).
These documented performances and interviews are added to my online archive at lifeisdrag.com, as well as projected or featured as site-specific multi-channel installations at “brick and mortar” venues ranging from spaces like Wave Pool, a non-profit gallery in my hometown of Cincinnati, to the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. I have also produced live events and hosted panel discussions in partnership with organizations such as Symphony Space, Franklin Furnace, and The Municipal Art Society of New York -- about the importance of documenting this important but ephemeral art form, as well as about the current drag bans in the United States and New York’s radical resistance to these worsening restrictions.
Please consider supporting this project, and thank you for checking it out!
Project website:
My artist website:
Supporting institutions:
The Cell
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157718509246159/
Symphony Space & Municipal Art Society of New York
www.symphonyspace.org/programs/life-is-drag
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720309589466
Franklin Furnace &
CADAF
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720310312123
Wave Pool
www.wavepoolgallery.org/exhibitions-archive#/life-is-drag
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720299700834
Bunker Projects & Bloomfield Garden Club
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157719733828390/
3S Artspace
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157714709930241/
More about these images:
This digital album contains images from my 2022-23 "Life is Drag" residency at The Cell in Chelsea, NYC. It includes video stills pulled from the 100+ video portraits created (performances documented), behind the scenes production shots taken during my 6 months at The Cell, and documentation of the two panels I produced and spoke with as a part of this residency -- at Symphony Space (in conjunction with the Municipal Art Society of New York), and at The Cell (in conjunction with Franklin Furnace and CADAF). More info below:
I create bodies of work that explore gender, artifice, and spectacle. Utilizing directorial, curatorial, and anthropological processes, I showcase exuberantly irrepressible personalities who revel in challenging clichés and taboos to rethink and reimagine the gender construct. A sampling of subjects include Girls Girls Girls - the world's first and only all-female Mötley Crüe tribute band, and Tazzie Colomb - the world's longest competing professional female bodybuilder and powerlifter. Since 2019, I have been working exclusively on "Life is Drag" - the largest living digital archive of drag in the United States.
Drag is a poetic synthesis of painting, sculpture, sound and performance. It is also an amalgam of self-discovery, transformation, permission, actualization, revolution, utopia, community, catharsis, and ultimately - radical self-expression. Drag is ART - and life IS drag. And "Life is Drag" has become my (Rachel Rampleman) life's work. I am a one-person production team - handling all research, curation, communication, lighting, shooting, editing, interviewing, archive building, residency outreach, and more. With "Life is Drag", I document the most innovative and singular performers - selected from a wide range of locations, backgrounds, cultures, and ages - who are currently exploding onto the national drag scene. This ever-evolving archive includes documentation of performances and interviews, and over the course of the last several years I have created 350+ video portraits, showcasing 200+ LGBTQIA performers - collaborating with them in my studio, as well as during residencies in New York City, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and New England (so far).
These documented performances and interviews are added to my online archive at lifeisdrag.com, as well as projected or featured as site-specific multi-channel installations at “brick and mortar” venues ranging from spaces like Wave Pool, a non-profit gallery in my hometown of Cincinnati, to the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. I have also produced live events and hosted panel discussions in partnership with organizations such as Symphony Space, Franklin Furnace, and The Municipal Art Society of New York -- about the importance of documenting this important but ephemeral art form, as well as about the current drag bans in the United States and New York’s radical resistance to these worsening restrictions.
Please consider supporting this project, and thank you for checking it out!
lifeisdrag.com/support
Project website:
My artist website:
Supporting institutions:
The Cell
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157718509246159/
Symphony Space & Municipal Art Society of New York
www.symphonyspace.org/programs/life-is-drag
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720309589466
Franklin Furnace & CADAF
www.franklinfurnace.org/about-us/
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720310312123
Wave Pool
www.wavepoolgallery.org/exhibitions-archive#/life-is-drag
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720299700834
Bunker Projects & Bloomfield Garden Club
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157719733828390/
3S Artspace
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157714709930241/
Link(s) to video portrait:
lifeisdrag.com/view/5670697/2/7982533?autoPlay=1
vimeo.com/rampleman/xaddy-over-therainbow
More about these images:
This digital album contains images from my 2022-23 "Life is Drag" residency at The Cell in Chelsea, NYC. It includes video stills pulled from the 100+ video portraits created (performances documented), behind the scenes production shots taken during my 6 months at The Cell, and documentation of the two panels I produced and spoke with as a part of this residency -- at Symphony Space (in conjunction with the Municipal Art Society of New York), and at The Cell (in conjunction with Franklin Furnace and CADAF). More info below:
I create bodies of work that explore gender, artifice, and spectacle. Utilizing directorial, curatorial, and anthropological processes, I showcase exuberantly irrepressible personalities who revel in challenging clichés and taboos to rethink and reimagine the gender construct. A sampling of subjects include Girls Girls Girls - the world's first and only all-female Mötley Crüe tribute band, and Tazzie Colomb - the world's longest competing professional female bodybuilder and powerlifter. Since 2019, I have been working exclusively on "Life is Drag" - the largest living digital archive of drag in the United States.
Drag is a poetic synthesis of painting, sculpture, sound and performance. It is also an amalgam of self-discovery, transformation, permission, actualization, revolution, utopia, community, catharsis, and ultimately - radical self-expression. Drag is ART - and life IS drag. And "Life is Drag" has become my (Rachel Rampleman) life's work. I am a one-person production team - handling all research, curation, communication, lighting, shooting, editing, interviewing, archive building, residency outreach, and more. With "Life is Drag", I document the most innovative and singular performers - selected from a wide range of locations, backgrounds, cultures, and ages - who are currently exploding onto the national drag scene. This ever-evolving archive includes documentation of performances and interviews, and over the course of the last several years I have created 350+ video portraits, showcasing 200+ LGBTQIA performers - collaborating with them in my studio, as well as during residencies in New York City, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and New England (so far).
These documented performances and interviews are added to my online archive at lifeisdrag.com, as well as projected or featured as site-specific multi-channel installations at “brick and mortar” venues ranging from spaces like Wave Pool, a non-profit gallery in my hometown of Cincinnati, to the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. I have also produced live events and hosted panel discussions in partnership with organizations such as Symphony Space, Franklin Furnace, and The Municipal Art Society of New York -- about the importance of documenting this important but ephemeral art form, as well as about the current drag bans in the United States and New York’s radical resistance to these worsening restrictions.
Please consider supporting this project, and thank you for checking it out!
Project website:
My artist website:
Supporting institutions:
The Cell
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157718509246159/
Symphony Space & Municipal Art Society of New York
www.symphonyspace.org/programs/life-is-drag
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720309589466
Franklin Furnace &
CADAF
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720310312123
Wave Pool
www.wavepoolgallery.org/exhibitions-archive#/life-is-drag
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720299700834
Bunker Projects & Bloomfield Garden Club
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157719733828390/
3S Artspace
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157714709930241/
PLITZS Swimwear Passion for Fashion 2012 (SPF) “Designer Showcase Presentation” offers a select few talented emerging designers and opportunity to affordably showcase their collections in a professionally produced presentation during the swimwear season without breaking their annual budget.
Our mission is to establish PLITZS Swimwear Passion for Fashion 2012 (SPF) “Designer Showcase Presentation” as the premier fashion event in New York City that offers designers an opportunity to broaden their fan base through multi-channel marketing and exposure to retailers, store owners, buyers, public and the media.
www.plitzs.com/swimwearpassionforfashion
Photos By: Lloyd Crawford
- TG COLLABORATION with CERITH WYN EVANS -
TG have recently been working on a collaboration with renowned artist Cerith Wyn Evans.
The piece entitled A=p=p=a=r=i=t=i=o=n consists of a large sculpture incorporating 16 suspended and highly polished circular Audio Spotlight panels. TG have composed a special multi-channel soundtrack that plays back through the sculpture.
A=p=p=a=r=i=t=i=o=n will form the central part of the 2008 Yokohama Triennale in Japan from 13 Sept to 30 Nov.
After that we are hopeful that it will travel to other exhibitions in the West during 2009.
Photos taken at Glasgow Tramways September 2009.
- TG COLLABORATION with CERITH WYN EVANS -
TG have recently been working on a collaboration with renowned artist Cerith Wyn Evans.
The piece entitled A=p=p=a=r=i=t=i=o=n consists of a large sculpture incorporating 16 suspended and highly polished circular Audio Spotlight panels. TG have composed a special multi-channel soundtrack that plays back through the sculpture.
A=p=p=a=r=i=t=i=o=n will form the central part of the 2008 Yokohama Triennale in Japan from 13 Sept to 30 Nov.
After that we are hopeful that it will travel to other exhibitions in the West during 2009.
Photos taken at Glasgow Tramways September 2009.
More about these images:
This digital album contains images from my 2022-23 "Life is Drag" residency at The Cell in Chelsea, NYC. It includes video stills pulled from the 100+ video portraits created (performances documented), behind the scenes production shots taken during my 6 months at The Cell, and documentation of the two panels I produced and spoke with as a part of this residency -- at Symphony Space (in conjunction with the Municipal Art Society of New York), and at The Cell (in conjunction with Franklin Furnace and CADAF). More info below:
I create bodies of work that explore gender, artifice, and spectacle. Utilizing directorial, curatorial, and anthropological processes, I showcase exuberantly irrepressible personalities who revel in challenging clichés and taboos to rethink and reimagine the gender construct. A sampling of subjects include Girls Girls Girls - the world's first and only all-female Mötley Crüe tribute band, and Tazzie Colomb - the world's longest competing professional female bodybuilder and powerlifter. Since 2019, I have been working exclusively on "Life is Drag" - the largest living digital archive of drag in the United States.
Drag is a poetic synthesis of painting, sculpture, sound and performance. It is also an amalgam of self-discovery, transformation, permission, actualization, revolution, utopia, community, catharsis, and ultimately - radical self-expression. Drag is ART - and life IS drag. And "Life is Drag" has become my (Rachel Rampleman) life's work. I am a one-person production team - handling all research, curation, communication, lighting, shooting, editing, interviewing, archive building, residency outreach, and more. With "Life is Drag", I document the most innovative and singular performers - selected from a wide range of locations, backgrounds, cultures, and ages - who are currently exploding onto the national drag scene. This ever-evolving archive includes documentation of performances and interviews, and over the course of the last several years I have created 350+ video portraits, showcasing 200+ LGBTQIA performers - collaborating with them in my studio, as well as during residencies in New York City, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and New England (so far).
These documented performances and interviews are added to my online archive at lifeisdrag.com, as well as projected or featured as site-specific multi-channel installations at “brick and mortar” venues ranging from spaces like Wave Pool, a non-profit gallery in my hometown of Cincinnati, to the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. I have also produced live events and hosted panel discussions in partnership with organizations such as Symphony Space, Franklin Furnace, and The Municipal Art Society of New York -- about the importance of documenting this important but ephemeral art form, as well as about the current drag bans in the United States and New York’s radical resistance to these worsening restrictions.
Please consider supporting this project, and thank you for checking it out!
Project website:
My artist website:
Supporting institutions:
The Cell
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157718509246159/
Symphony Space & Municipal Art Society of New York
www.symphonyspace.org/programs/life-is-drag
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720309589466
Franklin Furnace &
CADAF
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720310312123
Wave Pool
www.wavepoolgallery.org/exhibitions-archive#/life-is-drag
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720299700834
Bunker Projects & Bloomfield Garden Club
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157719733828390/
3S Artspace
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157714709930241/
2018
1, 128 channels of sound, speakers, maple, aluminum, screen, computer, custom-made electronics, hardware and software, 1/3
Courtesy of Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul
Sphere Packing: Bach, 2018, and Sphere Packing: Wagner, 2013, are two in a series of 17 works that concentrate the entire musical production of a composer into a single multi-channel sphere. The size of each sphere is proportional to how prolific the composer was: Hildegard von Bingen's bronzed steel sphere is but 11 cm in diameter and comprises 69 channels of sound, while Mozart's white polymer sphere is 35 cm and has 565 channels. In the exhibition, the black-glazed porcelain sphere dedicated to Richard Wagner hangs from the ceiling and visitors have to bring their ear up close in order to hear his Romantic compositions. By far the most prolific composer, Johann Sebastian Bach requires 1,128 individual speakers distributed through a sphere that visitors may physically enter, immersing themselves in its Baroque sounds. The compositions are arranged so that at times only one is audible while at others the piece reaches a musical crescendo, when all 1,128 compositions are playing simultaneously. As in of Lozano-Hemmer's works, Sphere Packing: Bach translates data into physical form, making sound visibly perceptive and transforming immateriality into immersive space.
More about these images:
This digital album contains images from my 2022-23 "Life is Drag" residency at The Cell in Chelsea, NYC. It includes video stills pulled from the 100+ video portraits created (performances documented), behind the scenes production shots taken during my 6 months at The Cell, and documentation of the two panels I produced and spoke with as a part of this residency -- at Symphony Space (in conjunction with the Municipal Art Society of New York), and at The Cell (in conjunction with Franklin Furnace and CADAF). More info below:
I create bodies of work that explore gender, artifice, and spectacle. Utilizing directorial, curatorial, and anthropological processes, I showcase exuberantly irrepressible personalities who revel in challenging clichés and taboos to rethink and reimagine the gender construct. A sampling of subjects include Girls Girls Girls - the world's first and only all-female Mötley Crüe tribute band, and Tazzie Colomb - the world's longest competing professional female bodybuilder and powerlifter. Since 2019, I have been working exclusively on "Life is Drag" - the largest living digital archive of drag in the United States.
Drag is a poetic synthesis of painting, sculpture, sound and performance. It is also an amalgam of self-discovery, transformation, permission, actualization, revolution, utopia, community, catharsis, and ultimately - radical self-expression. Drag is ART - and life IS drag. And "Life is Drag" has become my (Rachel Rampleman) life's work. I am a one-person production team - handling all research, curation, communication, lighting, shooting, editing, interviewing, archive building, residency outreach, and more. With "Life is Drag", I document the most innovative and singular performers - selected from a wide range of locations, backgrounds, cultures, and ages - who are currently exploding onto the national drag scene. This ever-evolving archive includes documentation of performances and interviews, and over the course of the last several years I have created 350+ video portraits, showcasing 200+ LGBTQIA performers - collaborating with them in my studio, as well as during residencies in New York City, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and New England (so far).
These documented performances and interviews are added to my online archive at lifeisdrag.com, as well as projected or featured as site-specific multi-channel installations at “brick and mortar” venues ranging from spaces like Wave Pool, a non-profit gallery in my hometown of Cincinnati, to the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. I have also produced live events and hosted panel discussions in partnership with organizations such as Symphony Space, Franklin Furnace, and The Municipal Art Society of New York -- about the importance of documenting this important but ephemeral art form, as well as about the current drag bans in the United States and New York’s radical resistance to these worsening restrictions.
Please consider supporting this project, and thank you for checking it out!
Project website:
My artist website:
Supporting institutions:
The Cell
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157718509246159/
Symphony Space & Municipal Art Society of New York
www.symphonyspace.org/programs/life-is-drag
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720309589466
Franklin Furnace &
CADAF
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720310312123
Wave Pool
www.wavepoolgallery.org/exhibitions-archive#/life-is-drag
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720299700834
Bunker Projects & Bloomfield Garden Club
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157719733828390/
3S Artspace
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157714709930241/
More about these images:
This digital album contains images from my 2022-23 "Life is Drag" residency at The Cell in Chelsea, NYC. It includes video stills pulled from the 100+ video portraits created (performances documented), behind the scenes production shots taken during my 6 months at The Cell, and documentation of the two panels I produced and spoke with as a part of this residency -- at Symphony Space (in conjunction with the Municipal Art Society of New York), and at The Cell (in conjunction with Franklin Furnace and CADAF). More info below:
I create bodies of work that explore gender, artifice, and spectacle. Utilizing directorial, curatorial, and anthropological processes, I showcase exuberantly irrepressible personalities who revel in challenging clichés and taboos to rethink and reimagine the gender construct. A sampling of subjects include Girls Girls Girls - the world's first and only all-female Mötley Crüe tribute band, and Tazzie Colomb - the world's longest competing professional female bodybuilder and powerlifter. Since 2019, I have been working exclusively on "Life is Drag" - the largest living digital archive of drag in the United States.
Drag is a poetic synthesis of painting, sculpture, sound and performance. It is also an amalgam of self-discovery, transformation, permission, actualization, revolution, utopia, community, catharsis, and ultimately - radical self-expression. Drag is ART - and life IS drag. And "Life is Drag" has become my (Rachel Rampleman) life's work. I am a one-person production team - handling all research, curation, communication, lighting, shooting, editing, interviewing, archive building, residency outreach, and more. With "Life is Drag", I document the most innovative and singular performers - selected from a wide range of locations, backgrounds, cultures, and ages - who are currently exploding onto the national drag scene. This ever-evolving archive includes documentation of performances and interviews, and over the course of the last several years I have created 350+ video portraits, showcasing 200+ LGBTQIA performers - collaborating with them in my studio, as well as during residencies in New York City, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and New England (so far).
These documented performances and interviews are added to my online archive at lifeisdrag.com, as well as projected or featured as site-specific multi-channel installations at “brick and mortar” venues ranging from spaces like Wave Pool, a non-profit gallery in my hometown of Cincinnati, to the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. I have also produced live events and hosted panel discussions in partnership with organizations such as Symphony Space, Franklin Furnace, and The Municipal Art Society of New York -- about the importance of documenting this important but ephemeral art form, as well as about the current drag bans in the United States and New York’s radical resistance to these worsening restrictions.
Please consider supporting this project, and thank you for checking it out!
Project website:
My artist website:
Supporting institutions:
The Cell
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157718509246159/
Symphony Space & Municipal Art Society of New York
www.symphonyspace.org/programs/life-is-drag
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720309589466
Franklin Furnace &
CADAF
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720310312123
Wave Pool
www.wavepoolgallery.org/exhibitions-archive#/life-is-drag
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720299700834
Bunker Projects & Bloomfield Garden Club
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157719733828390/
3S Artspace
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157714709930241/
GLSUN matrix optical switch consists of high performance and high reliability switches, which are available from 2x2 to 32x64 channels. This optical matrix switch is mainly used for multi-channel fiber monitoring in optical transmission, LAN multi light source/detector automatically switching and optical sensor multi-points dynamic monitoring system with low cost, low insertion loss, a compact size, low power consumption and fast switching time.
Serviceberater und Coach Peter Schönle skizzierte beim Erfahrungsaustausch zum Thema CRM die Kundenkommunikation in Zeiten von Multi-Channel-Optionen.
www.microstep.com/de/neuigkeiten/1277--vdma-crm-im-mittel...
More about these images:
This digital album contains images from my 2022-23 "Life is Drag" residency at The Cell in Chelsea, NYC. It includes video stills pulled from the 100+ video portraits created (performances documented), behind the scenes production shots taken during my 6 months at The Cell, and documentation of the two panels I produced and spoke with as a part of this residency -- at Symphony Space (in conjunction with the Municipal Art Society of New York), and at The Cell (in conjunction with Franklin Furnace and CADAF). More info below:
I create bodies of work that explore gender, artifice, and spectacle. Utilizing directorial, curatorial, and anthropological processes, I showcase exuberantly irrepressible personalities who revel in challenging clichés and taboos to rethink and reimagine the gender construct. A sampling of subjects include Girls Girls Girls - the world's first and only all-female Mötley Crüe tribute band, and Tazzie Colomb - the world's longest competing professional female bodybuilder and powerlifter. Since 2019, I have been working exclusively on "Life is Drag" - the largest living digital archive of drag in the United States.
Drag is a poetic synthesis of painting, sculpture, sound and performance. It is also an amalgam of self-discovery, transformation, permission, actualization, revolution, utopia, community, catharsis, and ultimately - radical self-expression. Drag is ART - and life IS drag. And "Life is Drag" has become my (Rachel Rampleman) life's work. I am a one-person production team - handling all research, curation, communication, lighting, shooting, editing, interviewing, archive building, residency outreach, and more. With "Life is Drag", I document the most innovative and singular performers - selected from a wide range of locations, backgrounds, cultures, and ages - who are currently exploding onto the national drag scene. This ever-evolving archive includes documentation of performances and interviews, and over the course of the last several years I have created 350+ video portraits, showcasing 200+ LGBTQIA performers - collaborating with them in my studio, as well as during residencies in New York City, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and New England (so far).
These documented performances and interviews are added to my online archive at lifeisdrag.com, as well as projected or featured as site-specific multi-channel installations at “brick and mortar” venues ranging from spaces like Wave Pool, a non-profit gallery in my hometown of Cincinnati, to the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. I have also produced live events and hosted panel discussions in partnership with organizations such as Symphony Space, Franklin Furnace, and The Municipal Art Society of New York -- about the importance of documenting this important but ephemeral art form, as well as about the current drag bans in the United States and New York’s radical resistance to these worsening restrictions.
Please consider supporting this project, and thank you for checking it out!
Project website:
My artist website:
Supporting institutions:
The Cell
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157718509246159/
Symphony Space & Municipal Art Society of New York
www.symphonyspace.org/programs/life-is-drag
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720309589466
Franklin Furnace &
CADAF
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720310312123
Wave Pool
www.wavepoolgallery.org/exhibitions-archive#/life-is-drag
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720299700834
Bunker Projects & Bloomfield Garden Club
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157719733828390/
3S Artspace
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157714709930241/
More about these images:
This digital album contains images from my 2022-23 "Life is Drag" residency at The Cell in Chelsea, NYC. It includes video stills pulled from the 100+ video portraits created (performances documented), behind the scenes production shots taken during my 6 months at The Cell, and documentation of the two panels I produced and spoke with as a part of this residency -- at Symphony Space (in conjunction with the Municipal Art Society of New York), and at The Cell (in conjunction with Franklin Furnace and CADAF). More info below:
I create bodies of work that explore gender, artifice, and spectacle. Utilizing directorial, curatorial, and anthropological processes, I showcase exuberantly irrepressible personalities who revel in challenging clichés and taboos to rethink and reimagine the gender construct. A sampling of subjects include Girls Girls Girls - the world's first and only all-female Mötley Crüe tribute band, and Tazzie Colomb - the world's longest competing professional female bodybuilder and powerlifter. Since 2019, I have been working exclusively on "Life is Drag" - the largest living digital archive of drag in the United States.
Drag is a poetic synthesis of painting, sculpture, sound and performance. It is also an amalgam of self-discovery, transformation, permission, actualization, revolution, utopia, community, catharsis, and ultimately - radical self-expression. Drag is ART - and life IS drag. And "Life is Drag" has become my (Rachel Rampleman) life's work. I am a one-person production team - handling all research, curation, communication, lighting, shooting, editing, interviewing, archive building, residency outreach, and more. With "Life is Drag", I document the most innovative and singular performers - selected from a wide range of locations, backgrounds, cultures, and ages - who are currently exploding onto the national drag scene. This ever-evolving archive includes documentation of performances and interviews, and over the course of the last several years I have created 350+ video portraits, showcasing 200+ LGBTQIA performers - collaborating with them in my studio, as well as during residencies in New York City, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and New England (so far).
These documented performances and interviews are added to my online archive at lifeisdrag.com, as well as projected or featured as site-specific multi-channel installations at “brick and mortar” venues ranging from spaces like Wave Pool, a non-profit gallery in my hometown of Cincinnati, to the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. I have also produced live events and hosted panel discussions in partnership with organizations such as Symphony Space, Franklin Furnace, and The Municipal Art Society of New York -- about the importance of documenting this important but ephemeral art form, as well as about the current drag bans in the United States and New York’s radical resistance to these worsening restrictions.
Please consider supporting this project, and thank you for checking it out!
lifeisdrag.com/support
Project website:
My artist website:
Supporting institutions:
The Cell
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157718509246159/
Symphony Space & Municipal Art Society of New York
www.symphonyspace.org/programs/life-is-drag
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720309589466
Franklin Furnace & CADAF
www.franklinfurnace.org/about-us/
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720310312123
Wave Pool
www.wavepoolgallery.org/exhibitions-archive#/life-is-drag
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720299700834
Bunker Projects & Bloomfield Garden Club
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157719733828390/
3S Artspace
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157714709930241/
Link(s) to video portrait:
lifeisdrag.com/view/5670697/2/7968651?autoPlay=1
vimeo.com/rampleman/klondyke-a-house-is-not-a-home
Performer bio:
Klondyke is an alien tragg*t superstar!!! Child of a black hole and a supernova, raised by a 4th dimensional rockstar. Experimental musical theatre composer, Haus of Quench Member, and winner of Cakeboys 2021 Takes the Cake Competition they are here to terrorize norms out of existence through the great unifier: MUUUUSIIIIIC!
More about these images:
This digital album contains images from my 2022-23 "Life is Drag" residency at The Cell in Chelsea, NYC. It includes video stills pulled from the 100+ video portraits created (performances documented), behind the scenes production shots taken during my 6 months at The Cell, and documentation of the two panels I produced and spoke with as a part of this residency -- at Symphony Space (in conjunction with the Municipal Art Society of New York), and at The Cell (in conjunction with Franklin Furnace and CADAF). More info below:
I create bodies of work that explore gender, artifice, and spectacle. Utilizing directorial, curatorial, and anthropological processes, I showcase exuberantly irrepressible personalities who revel in challenging clichés and taboos to rethink and reimagine the gender construct. A sampling of subjects include Girls Girls Girls - the world's first and only all-female Mötley Crüe tribute band, and Tazzie Colomb - the world's longest competing professional female bodybuilder and powerlifter. Since 2019, I have been working exclusively on "Life is Drag" - the largest living digital archive of drag in the United States.
Drag is a poetic synthesis of painting, sculpture, sound and performance. It is also an amalgam of self-discovery, transformation, permission, actualization, revolution, utopia, community, catharsis, and ultimately - radical self-expression. Drag is ART - and life IS drag. And "Life is Drag" has become my (Rachel Rampleman) life's work. I am a one-person production team - handling all research, curation, communication, lighting, shooting, editing, interviewing, archive building, residency outreach, and more. With "Life is Drag", I document the most innovative and singular performers - selected from a wide range of locations, backgrounds, cultures, and ages - who are currently exploding onto the national drag scene. This ever-evolving archive includes documentation of performances and interviews, and over the course of the last several years I have created 350+ video portraits, showcasing 200+ LGBTQIA performers - collaborating with them in my studio, as well as during residencies in New York City, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and New England (so far).
These documented performances and interviews are added to my online archive at lifeisdrag.com, as well as projected or featured as site-specific multi-channel installations at “brick and mortar” venues ranging from spaces like Wave Pool, a non-profit gallery in my hometown of Cincinnati, to the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. I have also produced live events and hosted panel discussions in partnership with organizations such as Symphony Space, Franklin Furnace, and The Municipal Art Society of New York -- about the importance of documenting this important but ephemeral art form, as well as about the current drag bans in the United States and New York’s radical resistance to these worsening restrictions.
Please consider supporting this project, and thank you for checking it out!
Project website:
My artist website:
Supporting institutions:
The Cell
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157718509246159/
Symphony Space & Municipal Art Society of New York
www.symphonyspace.org/programs/life-is-drag
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720309589466
Franklin Furnace &
CADAF
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720310312123
Wave Pool
www.wavepoolgallery.org/exhibitions-archive#/life-is-drag
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72177720299700834
Bunker Projects & Bloomfield Garden Club
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157719733828390/
3S Artspace
Images:
www.flickr.com/photos/megalomediac/albums/72157714709930241/
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