PUBLIC EXHIBITS
Have a look at the various public exhibits we have originated and participated in.
The History of the Pussy Palace
A DIGITAL EXHIBIT
pussypalaceproject.org | Forthcoming, Winter 2023
Co-curated by Elspeth Brown (Lead Historian) and Alisha Stranges (Project Manager); site design by Peter Luo; site development by Matt Lefaive; original illustrations and animated video shorts by Ayo Tsalithaba.
This immersive, digital exhibit details the evolution of the Palace events, the raid, and the early histories that informed this moment of radical sexual culture. The exhibit’s focal point invites users to explore 9 digitally illustrated rooms inside the Palace, where clickable objects spark relevant soundbites drawn from our collection of oral histories.
Radical Perverts
ECSTASY AND ACTIVISM IN QUEER PUBLIC SPACE, 1975-2000
Museum of Sex, New York, NY | OCT 12, 2023 – APR 14, 2024
This landmark exhibition of contemporary works and archival ephemera documents the transformative sex culture, political debates and mutual aid that swelled within seminal LGBTQ public spaces (BDSM bars, bathhouses, porn theaters and tea rooms) during the 25-year period of 1975-2000. On view at the Museum of Sex, RADICAL PERVERTS makes visible the intersecting histories of pleasure, community power, pain, and public health in these now mostly vanished places of revolutionary communion and care.
Curated by Alexis Heller; selected exhibition materials featuring the Pussy Palace Oral History Project designed and produced by Alisha Stranges with the archive of digital media assets collectively devised by the research team; photographs by Jules Slutsky.
The Pussy Palace
AN INSTAGRAM STORY
Gallery 1265, University of Toronto Scarborough | JUN 5 – JUL 12, 2023
Co-curated by Diana Pearson (EDIO) and Monica Khoshaien (Positive Space Committee); conceptualized and produced by Alisha Stranges (Collaboratory) with the archive of digital media assets collectively devised by the research team.
Commissioned by the University of Toronto Scarborough’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Office (EDIO) and the Positive Space Committee, this interactive, self-led exhibit blends digital art, narrative text, and interview soundbites, immersing patrons in an “average night” at the Palace.
