Kiss & Tell | Sources et Ressources | L’Institut de l’art canadien

Kiss & Tell raconte des expériences lesbiennes vécues en exploitant de multiples moyens d’expression, tels que la photo, la vidéo et la performance. L’écriture, la lecture et la publication occupent une place centrale dans leur art, qui est profondément influencé par les critiques et les écrits féministes et queers. En 1991, le collectif publie un livre de cartes postales rassemblant une sélection de photos et de commentaires du public issus du projet Drawing the Line (Tracer la ligne), et en 1994, un livre regroupant essais, récits de fiction érotiques et photographies. Se décrivant comme un « groupe d’écriture à deux », Persimmon Blackbridge et Lizard Jones ont chacune écrit un roman inspiré de leur vécu avec le handicap, mêlant fiction et expérience personnelle.

Affiche de la performance *True Inversions* (*Vraies inversions*), par Kiss & Tell, Vancouver East Cultural Centre, 9 et 10 octobre 1992, Archives de la Ville de Vancouver.

Écrits des artistes

Blackbridge, Persimmon, Prozac Highway, Vancouver, Press Gang Publishers, 1997.

____________,Sunnybrook: A True Story with Lies, Vancouver, Press Gang Publishers, 1996.

Blackbridge, Persimmon et Sheila Gilhooly, Still Sane, Vancouver, Press Gang Publishers, 1985.

Jones, Lizard, Two Ends of Sleep, Vancouver, Press Gang Publishers, 1997.

Kiss & Tell, « Seizure Story », Suggestive Poses: Artists and Critics Respond to Censorship, Lorraine Johnson, dir., Toronto, Gallery TPW et Riverbank Press, 1997.

____________, Her Tongue on My Theory: Images, Essays and Fantasies, Vancouver, Press Gang Publishers, 1994.

____________, Drawing the Line: Lesbian Sexual Politics on the Wall, Vancouver, Press Gang Publishers, 1991.

Kivisild, Emma, « Limoncello », Northword Magazine, décembre 2018, p. 14.

Principaux écrits sur les artistes

Anderson, Trevor, « Tax-Funded Gay Sex Play God-Awful. Sex Panic! », Gateway, 18 octobre 1994, p. 5.

Bell, Rick, « Kiss & Telling in Balmy Banff: Banff Hosts the Latest in Subsidized ‘Alienation’ and Lesbian Porn », Alberta Report, 7 décembre 1993.

Belton, Robert J., Sights of Resistance: Approaches to Canadian Visual Culture, Calgary, University of Calgary Press, 2001.

Bociurkiw, Marusya, « The Transgressive Camera: Drawing the Line », Afterimage, vol. 16, n^o 6 (1^er janvier 1989), p. 18.

Boffin, Tessa et Jean Fraser, dir., Stolen Glances: Lesbians Take Photographs, Londres, Pandora Press, 1991.

Couverture de *Over Exposed: Essays on Contemporary Photography*, sous la direction de Carol Squiers, New York, The New Press, 1999.

Couverture de *Caught in the Act: An Anthology of Performance Art by Canadian Women*, sous la direction de Johanna Householder et Tanya Mars, Toronto, YYZ Books, 2004.

Bright, Deborah, « Mirrors and Window Shoppers: Lesbians, Photography, and the Politics of Visibility », Over Exposed: Essays on Contemporary Photography, Carol Squiers, dir., New York, The New Press, 1999.

« Different Strokes », Vanguard, vol. 17, novembre 1988, p. 46.

Frueh, Joanna, Cassandra L. Langer et Arlene Raven, dir., New Feminist Criticism: Identity/Art/Action, New York, IconEditions, 1994.

Harder, Jeff, « Minister Fuming Over Show: Tax-Funded, Gay Sex Play ‘God-Awful’ », Edmonton Sun, 15 janvier 1993, p. 24.

Householder, Johanna et Tanya Mars, dir., Caught in the Act: An Anthology of Performance Art by Canadian Women, Toronto, YYZ Books, 2004.

Hutchinson, Kristen, « Drawing the Lines of Lesbian Sex », The McGill Daily, 11 février 1993.

Nead, Lynda, The Female Nude: Art, Obscenity and Sexuality, New York, Routledge, 1992.

Noble, Jean Bobby, Drawing the Line: Censorship, Representation, and Lesbian Sexual Politics, catalogue d’exposition, Edmonton, Latitude 53 Society of Artists, 1992.

Pidduck, Julianne, « After 1980: Margins and Mainstreams », postface de Richard Dyer, Now You See It: Studies on Lesbian and Gay Film, Londres, Routledge, 2003 (2^e édition).

Pilcher, Alex, A Queer Little History of Art, Londres, Tate Publishing, 2017.

Pizanias, Caterina, « Habitus: From the Inside Out and the Outside In », The Body and Psychology, Henderikus J. Stam, dir., Londres, Sage Publications, 1998.

Wray, B. J., « Imagining Lesbian Citizenship: A Kiss & Tell Affair », Torquere: Journal of the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Studies Association, 1999, p. 25-46.

Principaux écrits critiques ayant inspiré Kiss & Tell

Butler, Judith, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, New York, Routledge, 1990.

Freire, Paulo, Pedagogy of Hope: Reliving Pedagogy of the Oppressed, New York, Continuum, 1994.

____________,Pedagogy of the Oppressed, New York, Seabury Press, 1970.

Gablik, Suzi, The Reenchantment of Art, Londres, Thames & Hudson, 1991.

Goldberg, Roselee, Performance: Live Art 1909 to the Present, New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1979.

Grosz, Elizabeth, Sexual Subversions: Three French Feminists, Sydney, Allen & Unwin Pty., 1989.

Halberstam, J. Jack et Del LaGrace Volcano, The Drag King Book, Londres, Serpent’s Tail, 1999.

hooks, bell, Black Looks: Race and Representation, Boston, South End Press, 1992.

Irigaray, Luce, This Sex Which Is Not One, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1985.

Couverture de *From the Center: Feminist Essays on Women’s Art*, par Lucy Lippard, New York, Dutton, 1976.

Couverture de *On Photography*, par Susan Sontag, New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977.

Lauretis, Teresa de (Bad Object-Choices), How Do I Look? Queer Film and Video, Seattle, Bay Press, 1991.

Lippard, Lucy R., From the Center: Feminist Essays on Women’s Art, New York, Dutton, 1976.

Minh-ha, Trinh T., Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism, Bloomington, University of Indiana Press, 1989.

Phelan, Peggy, Unmarked: The Politics of Performance, Londres et New York, Routledge, 1993.

Rich, Adrienne, On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966–1978, New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1979.

____________, The Dream of a Common Language: Poems, 1974–1977, New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1978.

Silverman, Kaja, The Acoustic Mirror: The Female Voice in Psychoanalysis and Cinema, Bloomington, University of Indiana Press, 1988.

Sontag, Susan, Regarding the Pain of Others, New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969.

____________, On Photography, New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977.

____________,Styles of Radical Will, New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966.

Wittig, Monique, The Straight Mind and Other Essays, Boston, Beacon Press, 1992.

____________, Les Guérillères, Boston, Beacon Press, 1985.

____________, Le corps lesbien, Paris, Les Éditions de Minuit, 1973.

Principaux écrits critiques

Ashburn, Elizabeth, Lesbian Art: An Encounter with Power, Sydney, Craftsman House, 1996.

Bell, Laurie, dir., Good Girls/Bad Girls: Feminists and Sex Trade Workers Face to Face, Toronto, Women’s Press, 1987.

Califia, Pat, Sapphistry: The Book of Lesbian Sexuality, Tallahasse, Naiad Press, 1988.

Califia, Pat et Janine Fuller, Forbidden Passages: Writings Banned in Canada, Pittsburgh, Cleis Press, 1995.

Canyon, Brice, dir., Live at the End of the Century: Aspects of Performance Art in Vancouver, Vancouver, Visual Arts Society et grunt gallery, 2000.

Cvetkovich, Ann, An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality and Lesbian Public Cultures, Durham (N.C.), Duke University Press, 2003.

Duell, Sara, « Lesbian Invisibility in Art History: An interview with art historian Ksenia M. Soboleva discussing lesbian invisibility, being a grumpy dyke, and the value of criticism », WMN: Lesbian Art and Poetry, 2 août 2020, https://www.wmnzine.com/ksenia-soboleva-lesbian-invisibility-in-art-history/.

Faderman, Lillian, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America, New York, Penguin Books, 1991.

Ferguson, Ann, « Sex War: The Debate Between Radical and Libertarian Feminists », Signs, vol. 10, n^o 1 (automne 1984), p. 106-112.

Foster, Thomas, Carol Siegel et Ellen E. Berry, dir., The Gay ‘90s: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Formations in Queer Studies, New York, New York University Press, 1997.

Francis, Margot, « Lesbian National Parks and Services: Sex, Race and the Nation of Artistic Performance », Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 20, n^o 2 (2000), p. 131-136.

Fuller, Janine et Stuart Blackley, Restricted Entry: Censorship on Trial, Vancouver, Press Gang Publishers, 1995.

Gilbert, Sylvie, dir., Arousing Sensation: A Case Study of Controversy Surrounding Art and the Erotic, Banff, Banff Centre Press, 1999.

Hammond, Harmony, Lesbian Art in America: A Contemporary History, New York, Rizzoli, 2000.

Couverture de *Out North: An Archive of Queer Activism and Kinship in Canada*, par Craig Jennex et Nisha Eswaran, Toronto, The ArQuives, 2020.

Couverture de *Making a Scene: Lesbians and Community Across Canada*,*1964–84*, par Liz Millward, Vancouver, UBC Press, 2015.

Jennex, Craig et Nisha Eswaran, Out North: An Archive of Queer Activism and Kinship in Canada, Toronto, The ArQuives, 2020.

Karaian, Lara, « Troubling the Definition of Pornography: Little Sisters, a New Defining Moment in Feminists’ Engagement with the Law? », Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, vol. 17, n^o 1 (2005), p. 117-133.

Kennedy, Elizabeth Lapovsky et Madeline D. Davis, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community, New York, Routledge, 1993.

Korinek, Valerie J., Prairie Fairies: A History of Queer Communities and People in Western Canada, 1930–1985, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2018.

Kumbler, Alana, Ephemeral Material: Queering the Archive, Sacramento, Litwin Books, 2014.

Marcus, Eric, Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights 1945–1990, New York, Harper Collins Publishers, 1992.

McCaw, Fiona, Kristen Hutchinson et Susan Vivian, « The Joy of Naughty Bits », The McGill Daily, 17 février 1992, p. 4.

Millward, Liz, Making a Scene: Lesbians and Community Across Canada, 1964–84, Vancouver, UBC Press, 2015.

Munt, Sally R., Heroic Desire: Lesbian Identity and Cultural Space, New York, New York University Press, 1998.

Radbord, Joanna, « Lesbian Mothers and the Law of Custody, Access and Child Support », Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering, vol. 1, n^o 2 (1999), p. 86-96.

Rubin, Gayle S., « Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality », Social Perspectives in Lesbian and Gay Studies, Peter M. Nardi et Beth E. Schneider, dir., New York, Routledge, 1998, p. 143-178.

Samois, dir., Coming to Power: Writing and Graphics on Lesbian S/M, Boston, Alyson Books, 1981.

Stein, Arlene, dir., Sisters, Sexperts, Queers: Beyond the Lesbian Nation, New York, Penguin Books, 1993.

Valverde, Mariana, Sex, Power and Pleasure, Toronto, Women’s Press, 1985.

Wark, Jayne, Radical Gestures: Feminism and Performance Art in North America, Montréal et Kingston, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006.

Warner, Michael, dir., Fear of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1993.

Zepeda, Lizbeth, « Queering the Archive: Transforming the Archival Process », disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory, vol. 27, juillet 2018, p. 94-101.