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## gayle rubin with pet califia (2009)

by Kyra Claydon

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Species from the zone of avoidance (or why posthuman boys will be girls and girls will be boys)

I painted the work this year, after finishing I took a photo of it and created a gifanimation. The painting is called "Gayle Rubin with Pet Califia". It’s a reference to the contemporary philosopher Gayle Rubin and here companion and writer Pat Califia. I changed the orthographies of these names in my work and called the cat Pet Califia. The mane protagonist I called Geile Rubin because Germans would pronounce Gayle this way and it means horny. So what we see is indeed a Girl with a Pussycat and all its patterns. Does this remain the same if we reveal here real nature? In the gifanimation showing a woman, subtitled "ceci n´est pas une femme", appears a sentence explaining one of the most important revelations in science of the 20th century: everything ...

Tags: Animation Appropriation cyberfeminism Dispositif Gayle Rubin Information visualization Internet Milles Plateaux Montage Pat Califia Signifikant Signifikat Technology Virtual reality

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Species from the zone of avoidance (or why posthuman boys will be girls and girls will be boys)

I painted the work this year, after finishing I took a photo of it and created a gifanimation. The painting is called "Gayle Rubin with Pet Califia". It’s a reference to the contemporary philosopher Gayle Rubin and here companion and writer Pat Califia. I changed the orthographies of these names in my work and called the cat Pet Califia. The mane protagonist I called Geile Rubin because Germans would pronounce Gayle this way and it means horny. So what we see is indeed a Girl with a Pussycat and all its patterns. Does this remain the same if we reveal here real nature? In the gifanimation showing a woman, subtitled "ceci n´est pas une femme", appears a sentence explaining one of the most important revelations in science of the 20th century: everything vice-rally important to the survival of the human body and everything that distinguishes human being in its self, is encoded on one chromosome, on the X chromosome. Female and male genes with programmes delivering plans for the built of procreative organs also are both, male and female, written on the X chromosome. The Y chromosome is a new evolutionary invention and very young. It has been invented and created by the X chromosome to perform a better exchange among the various X chromosomes. The Y chromosome is a degenerated X chromosome now very small and still degenerative. It degenerates each time it is being reproduced. It executes the definition of what we like to interpret as male procreative organs, from the X chromosome. There are human beings with XX chromosomes, Xy chromosomes and there are also normal men and fathers with XX chromosomes and there are normal birth-giving woman and mothers with Xy chromosomes.

Since hundreds of century's sons are being privileged because of the belief that they carry all the superior informations of mankind.

The belief is also that sons heredit the information characterising their fathers personality and ability and represent the entire fathers line of ansesters that the son is supposed to reproduce again.

If a man and a woman have a daughter, she is going to heredit the X chromosom of the mother and the X chromosome of the father. A son heredits the X chromosome of the mother only. Everything he is comes from this side.

It is far about time to rethink our concepts of identity. It is beautiful performing femininity and it is beautiful performing masculinity, taken them as for what they really represent, as cultural assets means to open the benefit in a wider range.

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- Year Created: 2009
- Submitted to ArtBase: Tuesday Jan 17th, 2012
- Original Url: http://kyraclaydon.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/blog-copyright-kclaydon10.gif
- Permalink: http://kyraclaydon.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/blog-copyright-kclaydon10.gif
- Work Credits:
  - Kyra Claydon, creator

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