Added a new video to my projects catalogue. Its a collaboration between myself and Tandy Stevens. I was invited by a curator to make a video for an upcoming show. I had worked with the curator in the past, but our relationship was built solely upon online identities (we've never met in real life). The show was entitled "Lazy Identity - new videos that discuss what can obscure, preserve and even annihilate an identity". We decided to have the submission itself obey the show's parameters.

The video was created with as much procrastination as possible and submitted as late as possible (within reasonable limits). The video was created and submitted as a collaboration with an uninvited, unknown, unlicensed pediatrician mime clown artist named Tandy Stevens. I used as much persuasive communication as possible during my submission's late period to get it included in the show, including boorishness about the collaborator. In the end "I Got My Period" was not included in the "Lazy Identity" show for undisclosed reasons. The relationship with the curator is currently out of focus, and I am declaring our video to be "unofficially included" or at least "officially not included" in the show.

In the mid 2000's I did a fair amount of 'online persona performance' like this within the 'net arts' slash 'media arts' community, and most of it is currently undocumented. The result of which being that I confused/annoyed most of the gatekeepers who then labeled me 'arrogant art amateur' or something and kept my work behind those pearly gates of steel. Can't say I blame them. Trust Trust Trust, and that's a two way street. Maybe sometimes I don't believe in the gates being kept. I'm that punk who can't help but want to jump or spray paint them. I lust for amateur art arrogance! Folks this is one of the reasons you've never heard of me and why we have STEVENREAD.COM the "one domain art movement" as it stands today. Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke.