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Interiors: Cervix NFT is part of Every Woman Biennial NFT/NYC 2021

Interiors: Cervix is being minted into a Non Fungible Token - bold, sexual and visceral- by Every Woman Biennial and SuperchiefNFT Gallery

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Interiors: We Are All Pink Inside

Interiors: We Are All Pink Inside is a multi-part project that includes videos, photos and installations by Christen Clifford.

I was called “genitally motivated” by a professor once. I remember thinking, “Aren’t we all?“

Recently, somebody messaged me with a link to a vibrator that doubled as an internal camera. They thought it was a joke. I ordered one right away.

When AUNTS invited me to The Ace Hotel residency, I live-streamed from inside my vagina. All these people watching the stream messaged things like, “Show me your pussy!” I guess they didn’t understand that’s what they were seeing. 

That night two other people used the camera with a condom—a man and woman who each wish to remain anonymous. The camera’s focus is actually about an inch from the end of the wand. Everything looks abstract.

We all look kinda pink on the inside.

After that original AUNTSisDance at the ACE Hotel in 2015, the first project was The PussyBow : a Feminist Public Action disguised as a fashion accessory. The PussyBow was a named a 2015 “Most Feminist Fashion Moment” and written about in Refinery 29, Huffington Post and Nylon.

The Interiors were originally images from inside the artist’s own vagina, and later evolved to include interior portraits of male, female, trans and non-binary bodies. 

The photos are video stills taken with a Japanese sex toy camera. The camera focuses about an inch from the lens, and has an LED light. The different colors and shades of pink are from the amount of light captured. There is no digital manipulation of the photos or videos. There is no color manipulation. 

As a 2018 feminist-in-residence at Project for Empty Space, Clifford showed large scale C prints and HD Metal prints and an installation with video.

In 2019, the installation was shown in Curriculum: spaces of learning and unlearning curated by Stamatina Gregory and Jeanne Vaccaro and was a Critic’s Pick in Artforum and an Editor’s Pick in artnet.

Christen Clifford is a feminist performance artist, mother, curator and writer whose work has been seen at The Lewyn Allyn Museum of Art, The Newark Museum of Art, The New Museum, Project for Empty Space, Eva Presenhuber, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, PS122/solonova, The Culture Project, AUNTSisDance, Postmasters Gallery, Panoply Performance Lab, Grace Exhibition Space, ArtShareLA, Vox Populii as well as London, Budapest, and Slovenia. Grants and fellowships include Creative Catalyst, NYFA, NYSCA, LMCC, NYC Artist Corps, Newark Artist Accelerator, the Nonfiction Award at MFA Creative Writing program at The New School, Screen Forward Documentary Fellow at IFP, and a Fellow of the Production Assistance Program at Women Make Movies; residencies include The Museum of Motherhood, Some Serious Business, and the Ragdale Foundation. Clifford was a core member of No Wave Performance Task Force and was the lead artist on "We Wish Ana Mendieta Was Still Alive" outside of Dia: Chelsea and co-organizer of Crying; A Protest inside Dia:Beacon. Her work has been written about in New York Magazine, The New Yorker, Artforum, Bookforum, The Chicago Tribune, artnet, ARTnews, Hyperallergic, Huffington Post, Refinery 29, Dazed, BOMB, and Slovenian Cosmo. Her own writing has appeared in The Guardian, Huffington Post, Got A Girl Crush, Broadly, Filmmaker Magazine and Hyperallergic. She co-chaired (with Jasmine Wahi) Rape, Representation and Radicality for The Feminist Art Project, teaches at The New School and curates Experiments and Disorders at Dixon Place. She at work on her first film. Her limited edition risograph artbook BabyLove was acquired by the Thomas J Watson Library at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her studio is Project for Empty Space in Newark. She lives in Queens and online @cd_clifford

More at christenclifford.info

2015 AUNTSisDance ACEAIR residency at The Ace Hotel, NYC

2015 The PussyBow

2016 Interior, video, Femmes Video Art Festival at The Situation Room, Los Angeles

2016 Interior, video, Femmes Video Art Festival at LACE, Los Angeles

2017 Interior, video, FAIR Art Fair, Miami

2018 Interiors, performance with livestream, Art and Activism, ArtShare, Los Angeles

2018 Interiors: We Are All Pink Inside, installation, Project for Empty Space, Newark

2018 Interiors, performance with livestream, Project for Empty Space, Newark

2019 Interiors: We Are All Pink Inside, installation, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts

2019 second ACEAIR residency at The Ace Hotel, NYC

2020 Interiors Chairs, 4 brass chairs with custom cotton velvet upholstery

2021 Interiors: Cervix NFT minted by Every Woman Biennial and Superchief Gallery NFT

2022 Interiors 2022 video shown in Abortion Stories USA, at L.U.M.P Gallery

2022 Interiors 2022 video at Cindy Rucker Gallery

2022 Interiors: We Are All Pink Inside in UNSEEN at Quantus Gallery, London

2022 unique Interiors Installation at Lewyn Allyn Museum of Art, CT

2022 INTERIORS: room at Connecticut College

2022 INTERIORITY new performance at The Momentary, Crystal Bridges as part of Inverse Performance Art Festival.

2023 The Brooklyn Museum 50 Years Since Roe: A Convening on Reproductive Justice

Interiors at Cindy Rucker Gallery

Interiors at Cindy Rucker Gallery was part of Abortion Stories 2022.