Stone*-Aces Deeds
2024-in progress
We use autoethnography to experiment with stereotypes linked to stone*-aces people. With this project, we subvert the idea of the researcher as an observer, being an active part of the group of people we talked about, experiencing its practices and language from the margins to find other possible perspectives to those traditionally known. The ideas about that they are sexually, and sometimes emotionally “impenetrable”, due to trauma, or that they are, in the case of stone identities*, in a dysphoric state where they cannot support “looking like women” during sexual practices have become generalized.
We want to create a space for a critical point of view at this statement and look for other visions in the undeniable diversity that exists around stone*-aces people.
In this project, one of us makes different plaster casts of the other’s body, in a repetitive process that forces us to look at the lover’s body in other ways, over and over again.
We create a space in which we redefine the concept of “touch”, by connecting with the form of a supposedly “untouchable” subject through touch as a sense and the temperature of the stone as it sets.
The documented artistic-sexual process becomes the final piece of the project, along with the pieces of plaster that remain after the practice. We also focus on analyzing the remains of the cast, giving value to the plaster that is normally discarded, and that is presented to us as a trace of the body and identity.
