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		<title>Justine Lai &#8211; Join or Die &#8211; Crazy Presidental Sex</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>A friend and I were discussing the other day via email how we really need to start updating our personal blogs on a more frequent basis, so that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m gonna do.  That same friend sent me a link today to a painter by the name of <a href="http://justinelai.com/statement.html" target="_blank">Justine Lai</a>.   She does some pretty cool stuff with some pretty &#8220;stuffed shirt&#8221; political types.   As a result, I&#8217;ve decided I&#8217;m going to start making posts of the cool artsy stuff I tend to check out, and created a new section for it.   From her site bio:</p>
<blockquote><p>In Join Or Die, I paint myself having sex with the Presidents of the United States in chronological order. I am interested in humanizing and demythologizing the Presidents by addressing their public legacies and private lives. The presidency itself is a seemingly immortal and impenetrable institution; by inserting myself in its timeline, I attempt to locate something intimate and mortal. I use this intimacy to subvert authority, but it demands that I make myself vulnerable along with the Presidents. A power lies in rendering these patriarchal figures the possible object of shame, ridicule and desire, but it is a power that is constantly negotiated.</p>
<p>I approach the spectacle of sex and politics with a certain playfulness. It would be easy to let the images slide into territory that&#8217;s strictly pornographic—the lurid and hardcore, the predictably &#8220;<em>controversial</em>.&#8221; One could also imagine a series preoccupied with wearing its &#8220;<em>Fuck the Man</em>&#8221; symbolism on its sleeve. But I wish to move beyond these things and make something playful and tender and maybe a little ambiguous, but exuberantly so. This, I feel, is the most humanizing act I can do</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: center;">An example of her <a href="http://justinelai.com/works.html" target="_blank">interesting works</a><a href="http://www.modf.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/laijoinordie05.jpg" rel="lightbox[393]"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-394" style="border: 0pt none;" title="laijoinordie05" src="http://www.modf.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/laijoinordie05-225x300.jpg" alt="laijoinordie05" width="225" height="300" /></a></p>
<p>Make sure you check out her page,</p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A friend and I were discussing the other day via email how we really need to start updating our personal blogs on a more frequent basis, so that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m gonna do.  That same friend sent me a link today to a painter by the name of <a href="http://justinelai.com/statement.html" target="_blank">Justine Lai</a>.   She does some pretty cool stuff with some pretty &#8220;stuffed shirt&#8221; political types.   As a result, I&#8217;ve decided I&#8217;m going to start making posts of the cool artsy stuff I tend to check out, and created a new section for it.   From her site bio:</p>
<blockquote><p>In Join Or Die, I paint myself having sex with the Presidents of the United States in chronological order. I am interested in humanizing and demythologizing the Presidents by addressing their public legacies and private lives. The presidency itself is a seemingly immortal and impenetrable institution; by inserting myself in its timeline, I attempt to locate something intimate and mortal. I use this intimacy to subvert authority, but it demands that I make myself vulnerable along with the Presidents. A power lies in rendering these patriarchal figures the possible object of shame, ridicule and desire, but it is a power that is constantly negotiated.</p>
<p>I approach the spectacle of sex and politics with a certain playfulness. It would be easy to let the images slide into territory that&#8217;s strictly pornographic—the lurid and hardcore, the predictably &#8220;<em>controversial</em>.&#8221; One could also imagine a series preoccupied with wearing its &#8220;<em>Fuck the Man</em>&#8221; symbolism on its sleeve. But I wish to move beyond these things and make something playful and tender and maybe a little ambiguous, but exuberantly so. This, I feel, is the most humanizing act I can do</p></blockquote>
<p style="text-align: center;">An example of her <a href="http://justinelai.com/works.html" target="_blank">interesting works</a><a href="http://www.modf.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/laijoinordie05.jpg" rel="lightbox[393]"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-394" style="border: 0pt none;" title="laijoinordie05" src="http://www.modf.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/laijoinordie05-225x300.jpg" alt="laijoinordie05" width="225" height="300" /></a></p>
<p>Make sure you check out her page, I assume she has showings out in the San Fransisco area.</p>
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