The perfect host, Alloutte knew to always serve the guests before herself. Small bites small sips small anger. Big words big smiles big wants big hates. Don’t drown before drinking before fucking. Perfect life, perfect day, perfect fucking day for a tea party. Smile smile smile. Bide your time, be refined. Give. take. pussy. lake. make me. take me. see me. feel me. eat my flesh without contempt. heat my blood without intent. kink in vitro. love in vivo. same life every day. same bruise every night. bathed in liquid red and light. Slipping sliding falling fucking we own you already. We are Vagina Power.
Vagina Power is an electro-punk, performance art group which draws inspiration from various sub-cultural movements such as house music (rave), dark culture (including dark wave, electro, metal and goth). Vagina Power utilises philosophy, in its broadest definition, in order to uproot and contest injustice in all its forms, focusing in particular on gender issues.
Vagina Power is interested in all forms of publicly visible, (sub)cultural political debates, including images of graffiti around the world, which express contested views on society, politics and culture. The graffiti is then used in connection with feminist imagery and repetitive electronic music as a basis for video art installations, creating provocation within a dark, challenging soundscape.
The work is firmly situated within established feminist video art, exploring subjects including voyeurism and the female body on display (in the home, in pop culture and the male gaze), the horrors of the home as a form of social captivity and violent birth of feminist ‘liberation’.
Vagina Power attempts to cause the audience’s discomfort through frightening, flickering images and recognizable narrative themes, uncomfortably personal and horrific. A woman’s internal fight for independence, acceptance and dominance over her own life and body will always be a bloody one, a violent one, an external or internal conflict. Vagina Power’s art does not seek to define femininity. It seeks only to be an expression of the viewer’s reaction
Dolls feature heavily in Vagina Power artwork, connecting many of the group’s recurring themes. The doll is a stereotype of youth, the perfect image of the perfect woman, childlike and flawless, yet easily corrupted to be subservient to the whims of man. A child’s toy and a playground of perversions at the same time. It is time for change.
It is time for Vagina Power.