Performance artist Christeene, aka Paul Soileau, is notorious for her “terrorist drag” aesthetic and her powerful display of queer politics. Her sex positive messages are a perfect soundtrack to her latest visual Butt Muscle– an explicit affront against the effete collaboration with the equally rebellious fashion designer Rick Owens, his wife Michèle Lamy and director Matt Lambert. With scenes of self-fisting, double-handing drill dildos, Christeene using Owens’ hair as a butt plug, and her pissing in his mouth, one could easily mistake the video for being gratuitous hardcore porn, or meretricious art exhibitionism. But, don’t get it twisted! This is EXACTLY the mood changer we need going forward. Being sexually proud, fearless and unapologetically QUEER is the balance we need in America, a country that has for too long hidden under a cloak of puritanical hypocrisy.
UNCENSORED VERSION of BUTT MUSCLE HERE!
Via Dazed Digital:
Christeene, what’s the secret to being so unapologetically, openly sexual and transgressive?
Christeene: I think it’s being vulnerable. And allowing yourself to drop those goddamn images that we’ve seen on what is sexual, what is transgressive shit and your own vulnerability mixed with your family and whatever kind of fucking sexuality that you have. No one has the same kind of sexuality. Everyone’s got their strange tastes inside their mouths and their brains, so if you allow yourself the vulnerability to release those things, that’s all the shit you need to get out there. Just find the right platform and family to do it.
Why do you think there’s such an inherent shame placed around sexuality?
Christeene: A shame? Because I live in America.
What do you mean by that?
Christeene: The Bible tells me so and…
Matt Lambert: Sexuality is being vulnerable, right? Being honest with what you’re sexually into is vulnerable, and a lot of people are incredibly afraid to be vulnerable, ever, in their lives. People like Christeene and Rick, and I try as well, that vulnerability is a part of the strength of ourselves as artists. A lot of people are terrified of that. I think revealing that sexuality as truth is really scary for a lot of people.
Christeene: But it’s also fun. And when we see “Butt Muscle”, where people are laughing and having a good time – fuck the scary, and fuck the fear and vulnerability and start to tap into the enjoyment of it and the exhilaration of it and the freedom of it.
Matt Lambert: And not just the sexuality itself, but the sexual beings that we played with are things that, for a lot of people, would feel taboo. To take those ideas and have fun with them and play with them and use comedy, hopefully demystifies those things a little bit for more people. Humanizes those things a little bit for people. I hope.
You can read the full interview with Christeene, Rick Owens and director Matt Lambert on Dazed Digital…and see the UNCENSORED VERSION of BUTT MUSCLE HERE!!!
