Art Sluts Radio Teaser

Meet the Art Sluts, the irreverent all female punk folk performance art band (1983-86). Listen while they reminisce about songs, stories and issues of the day.  Shocking, funny, relevant and irreverent!

Episode Transcript

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So we fucked it.
it was there.
We're art sluts.
Anyway, hey, welcome to the art sluts.
Yeah, it's gonna happen.

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Cause we're art sluts.
Whoa.
My name's Ann Wood.
I'm Pam Doherty.
I'm Terry Chockey.
And we're the people that remain from the art sluts.
And she was Brian Yielson is here in spirit.
Absolutely.
She's very she's enjoying herself for sure.

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And so the Artsless was a all woman punk rock band in the 80s, basically from 84 to 86 inColumbia, Missouri, in the middle of a punk rock DIY scene that happened almost a decade
before the Gorilla Girls scene.
Absolutely.
Evergreen and Olympia where I'm right now in Olympia.

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Right.
And I'm in Atlanta.
Now, do you do you characterize us as punk rock?
Because I was to say performance.
I always thought of us as a performance art band because we had elements of that.
But yeah, we had a thing, Yeah, we did.
But I we were more than more than punk rock.

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Well, first of all, you get to self -define, right?
You get to choose and whatever comes out of your mouth about who you are, that's who youare, right?
But I definitely, one of the things I definitely wanted to bring up today, as I justfinished rereading for the second time, Assuming the Ecosexual Position by Annie Sprinkler
-Best Stevens.
And what they talk about is that they're a part of the Fluxus art movement, which is,know, a European art movement that Yoko Ono was part of that, Carolee Schneeman was part

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of that, and we're clearly
historically embedded in that kind of a particular kind of feminist body art performanceart thing.
And that what we were doing had no precedent in the culture that we were in.
And don't forget Yayoi Kusama, who also did nude performance art and painting on her bodyin 1960.

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Right.
like us, and so that was in Carolyn Schneemann, the Meatjoy stuff happened in 62, 64.
But you know, American artists have always been very America as a culture has been veryinhospitable to well, so misogynist, right?
But females women using their bodies as part of the art so the way that we cut our hairthe way that we Right did all those costume changes all of that.

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So definitely saw ourselves as the site of art Absolutely Okay one more time
Thanks for listening to Art Sluts Radio.
Hey, if you identify with the Art Sluts, explore our herstory at artsluts .net.

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It's just my music, baby
you