PUBLIC ART

Sunset Spectacular Billboard

November 2022 — February 2023

At the cross section of Sunset Blvd and Holloway Dr., MOTHA made its public art debut in Los Angeles, CA with a video installation of iconic transcestors. The video collage advertises the forever under construction and always imminent museum which intends to highlight trans, non-binary, and gender transgressive art & culture.

Icons in the video (in order of appearance): Reed Erickson, Lady Red Couture, Akihirio Miwa, Chaz Bono, Albert Cashier, Lady Java, Amelio Robles Ávila, Radclyffe Hall, Amos Mac, Candy Darling, Giueseppe Campuzano, Greer Lankton, Calpernia Adams, Venus Xtravaganza, Amanda Lear, Ana Mendieta, Lou Sullivan, We'wha, Jackie Shane, Jack Bee Garland, Assunta Femia, Magnus Hirschfeld, Leigh Bowery, Dante "Tex" Gill, Amy Schneider, Mildred Gerstant (aka Dred aka Light Ning), Claude Cahun, Genesis P-Orridge, Thomas Beatie, Vaginal Davis, Steve Dain, Sylvia Rivera, Rrose Sélavy (Marcel Duchamp), Nong Rose Barnjaroensuk, Marsha P. Johnson, Nina Arsenault, Kate Bornstein, Justin Vivian Bond, Jeanne d'Arc (La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc, 1928), Hollywood Lawn, Dawn Langley Simmons, Christine Jorgensen, Alan Hart, Young Joon Kwak, Yasumasa Morimura, Angela (Sleepaway Camp, 1983), William Dorsey Swann, Vanguard San Francisco, Stormé DeLarverie, Gluck, a Clownfish, Saff Saffrey (Tiger King), Boy George, Petra/Pedro Herrera, Public Universal Friend, Anohni, Jahna Steele, Moll Cutpurse, Billy Tipton, Cassils, Nadezhda Durova, Victor/Victoria (1982), Mary Jones, a seahorse, Milo Smiley, Zackary Drucker, Sylvester.

Curated by Jeanne Vaccaro.

Presented by Orange Barrel Media and the City of West Hollywood.