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MICHELLE HANDELMAN

MICHELLE HANDELMAN

Michelle Handelman
Performance, Writer, Professor, Filmmaker

FILMMAKER, VISUAL ARTIST, WRITER, PROFESSOR

Hustlers & Empires

a multiscreen installation and performance, 2018

originally commissioned by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Frank Smigiel, former Associate Curator, Performance & Film, at SFMOMA

LOVER HATER CUNTY INTELLECTUAL

“My identity is a revolving door of possibilities, If you ask me what I want I’ll tell you… I want everything…this whole rotten world...because queerness is a borderless state.” Viva Ruiz in Hustlers & Empires

Irma Vep, The Last Breath, 2013/2015, multiscreen installation starring Zackary Drucker and Flawless Sabrina, 33 minutes.

Dorian, A Cinematic Perfume, 2009/2011, multiscreen installation starring Quin Charity, K8 Hardy, Armen Ra, and Sequinette, 63 minutes

BloodSisters: Leather, Dykes and Sadomasocism, 1995, 69 minutes

Artist and Filmmaker Michelle Handelman in conversation with Hunter O'Hanian, Executive Director, Stonewall National Museum & Archives, Talk Dec 03, 2020.

Monologues from Hustlers & Empires

VIVA RUIZ / MARGUERITE DURAS I have no regrets

I have no regrets
But then again, I can’t remember anything
When you’re taught from an early age that your body is a commodity
That your family is the enemy
And that your sole means of survival is kill or be killed
You find ways to erase it all

At a young age I already had a face that foretold the one I would acquire in middle age
Drink accomplished what God did not
That was how everything started for me - with that flagrant, exhausted face, those rings around the eyes

Vodka finished what time left undone

That day I slept with my brother I was looking at myself in the mirror I called him into the bedroom. We kissed.
And then I took off all my clothes
He did what I told him. I guided him in
And when he cried out I covered his mouth with my own
so that my mother wouldn’t hear
her son’s cry of release.

All I wanted was neglect
And empty sex
You didn’t have to go and love me too

All I do now is smoke. I have no more desire. no more love.
It’s wonderful, incredible
As if I died a thousand years ago

Sure I have feelings. You can see them right here on my body.
Other people call them scars

People like me don’t deserve happy endings
But I have no regrets


LOVER HATER CUNTY INTELLECTUAL, 2019 Chromogenic Print, 20 x 31 inches

LOVER HATER CUNTY INTELLECTUAL, 2019
Chromogenic Print, 20 x 31 inches

BECAUSE IF THERE IS NO PAIN IT WILL ALL BE FORGOTTEN, 2019 Chromogenic Print, 20 x 31 inches

BECAUSE IF THERE IS NO PAIN IT WILL ALL BE FORGOTTEN, 2019
Chromogenic Print, 20 x 31 inches

Michelle Handelman
Performance, Writer, Professor, Filmmaker
Michelle Handelman

Handelman is a Guggenheim Fellow, Creative Capital awardee, and NYFA Fellow. Her latest project Hustlers & Empires (2018) was commissioned by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and she has exhibited at the Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum, MIT List Visual Arts Center, PARTICIPANT, INC, The Henry Art Gallery, Guangzhou 53 Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, PERFORMA Biennial, Leslie-Lohman Museum, Film Society of Lincoln Center, and Centre Georges Pompidou. During the 1990s, Handelman worked in San Francisco where she collaborated with Monte Cazazza, a pioneer of the Industrial music scene; she also directed the feature documentary BloodSisters, and performed in several films by feminist media pioneer Lynn Hershman-Leeson. Handelman’s writings can be found in QED: A Journal in LGBTQ Worldmaking, n.Paradoxa, Intl Feminist Art Journal, and Apocalypse Culture.  Her work has been written about in Artforum, Art in America, Filmmaker Magazine, and The New York Times. She is an Associate Professor in the Film, Media and Performing Arts department at Fashion Institute of Technology. 

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