Making Gender Trouble

Video shot by Del LaGrace Volcano,
"one of instigators of polymorphous perverse queer culture." (Wilton, Tamsing. An Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Culture. Chicago: 2002)

Del is a professionally trained photographer, whose work interrogates the performance of gender on several levels, especially the performance of masculinity and femininity by queer individuals.

Author of several pioneering (my opinion) photography books which challenge normative assumptions surrounding the performative aspect of gender identity.

His/her/hes/hir/she/hes/esh work is challenging, courageous and innovative.

"As a gender variant visual artist I access 'technologies of gender' in order to amplify rather than erase the hermaphroditic traces of my body. I name myself. A gender abolitionist. A part time gender terrorist. An intentional mutation and intersex by design, (as opposed to diagnosis), in order to distinguish my journey from the thousands of intersex individuals who have had their 'ambiguous' bodies mutilated and disfigured in a misguided attempt at 'normalization'. I believe in crossing the line as many times as it takes to build a bridge we can all walk across." Del LaGrace Volcano, September 2005