Hot Girls Standing By

2018. Video. Runtime: 8:38.

As a socially and economically marginalized population, transgender women often engage in sex work. A deconstructed phone sex hotline commercial inspired by the nickelodeon pornography of early cinema, this video explores the commodification of the transgender body. A three-part split-screen shows the artist posing for an uncomfortably long time in heavy makeup and lingerie. A distorted voice heard over a telephone line describes the interactions of various body parts; the erotic situations grow more and more anatomically surreal.

Exhibition History

2018. Biting the Apple, Individual Artists of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK.