Conceived, curated, and kicked off over the span of 22 days, GLORY HOLE was a weekend-long marathon of performance art, film screenings, and art installations centered around a retrospective exhibition of my work from 2020-2025. With a cast of 20+ artists (often appearing in each others’ performances throughout the event), the event was free and open to the public. After the weekend event was complete, the exhibition remained up through the month of November at its host site, Yours Truly Studio, a ceramics studio and community space owned and operated by artists Taylor Bucki and Molly Hassler.
ALL PHOTOS TAKEN BY EMILY DALSKE
The show posed three questions:
1. What makes artwork “trans art”—is it content referring to the politics, anatomy, history, personhood, and thoughts of trans people by trans people, or is it simply any art made by a trans creator?
2. What kind of art would people make if there was no barrier to entry and no threat of censorship?
3. Where does laboring to create and facilitate art end and endurance-based performance art begin?
These questions were explored not only by the conceptually- and physically-demanding qualities of the performances and art installed at the event, but by the ludicrous hours during which the event was held as well as the mountains-moving level of effort it took me, the artists, and the event helpers to get this show out of my brain and into opening night in record time.
Participating artists include:
Sindie Ho, Gina Cornejo, Molly Hassler, Taylor Bucki, Sevan Mercy, Adrienne Miller, Wyatt Meyer, Liv Labrys, Bri LeRose, Georgia Smith, Ben Nidrah, Yen Nguyen, El Reese, Victor Dhein, Meg Zimont, Charles Goldman, Uli von Stein, Bianca Kim, dirtbike, Emily Dalske, Language Models, and more
