Welcome to Filthy Dreams
Well hello there! Welcome to Filthy Dreams, a blog that analyzes culture through a queer lens. Rather than jumping right into new content, we thought it best to introduce ourselves and our aesthetics with our Trash Manifesto
Latest Entries
Drinking the Kool-Aid With Elijah Burgher’s ‘Bachelors’
What is the possible transgressive and transformative power of cults? Do cults offer an alternative and queer form of relationality and community that counters the restrictive and repressive effects of both heteronormative and homonormative society? Well, Chicago-based artist Elijah Burgher certainly seems to think so in his current exhibition Bachelors at Chelsea’s Zieher Smith & … Continue reading
Deborah Kass and America’s Most Wanted Curators
Call it Stockholm Syndrome or millennial ennui, but idolizing and objectifying bad boy attitude, especially over media, is embedded in our culture. From the Rolling Stone cover of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to Jeremy Meeks, who became an overnight sensation as ‘hot mugshot guy,’ the act of being bad–even in such extreme cases–sparks some obscure fascination in … Continue reading
Worshiping The Concealed At Scott Treleaven’s ‘Animal Chapel’
Similar to Genesis Breyer P-Orridge’s articulation of the “amazingly full and kaleidoscopic adventure” of finding transgressive books in smut shops, artist Scott Treleaven’s large-scale abstract drawings in his current exhibition Animal Chapel at Invisible-Exports reflect the possible transformative power of the hidden, the coded and the concealed. Continue reading
5 Films/Videos To Ruin Other Sunbathers’ Day At The Beach This Memorial Weekend
Why hello there, you pasty Filthy Dreams readers! Quick! Grab some sunscreen before you become a lobster…of course, by that I mean a Rock Lobster. Ok, fine we did smuggle some booze on the beach in a bottle of sunscreen–sure, the Gang in It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia did it first but why mess with … Continue reading
Who Was Tseng Kwong Chi?
Walking through the multitude of black-and-white photographs at the Grey Art Gallery’s compelling retrospective of photographer Tseng Kwong Chi’s brief yet prolific artistic career, one nagging questions comes to mind: Who exactly was Tseng Kwong Chi? Continue reading
Big Sexy Noiseless: Lydia Lunch’s Silently Visceral ‘So Real It Hurts’
Silence is not typically the sound (or lack thereof) that comes to mind when thinking of no wave musician, Cinema of Transgression star, writer, spoken word performer and unwavering provocatress Lydia Lunch. Continue reading
Just Say No To Family Values: The Poetics of John Giorno’s ‘Space Forgets You’
Declaring a wide range of witty, thought-provoking and sometimes, wonderfully perverse phrases such as “LIFE IS A KILLER,” “A HURRICANE IN A DROP OF CUM,” “PREFER CRYING IN A LIMO TO LAUGHING ON A BUS,” and “JUST SAY NO TO FAMILY VALUES,” iconic New York poet and artist John Giorno’s current exhibition SPACE FORGETS YOU at Elizabeth Dee Gallery lyrically reinvigorates text-based artwork with a strong connection to poetic techniques. Continue reading
The Roughest Bar in New York: Remembering the Terminal Bar
“They called it the Terminal Bar but they had no idea that like twenty years later the place’d be filling up with terminal cases.” –Tom Waits, Tom Waits on Tom Waits: Interviews and Encounters (33-34) While our favorite down-and-out drunken troubadour Tom Waits was not actually referring to New York’s bygone glorious and dangerous dive–the Terminal Bar, he … Continue reading
Filthy Dreams’ Hunka Hunka Burnin’ Elvis Playlist
Lord almighty, I feel my temperature risin’! Lately, we here at Filthy Dreams have come down with a little fever…a feverish fanatical and maniacal obsession with Elvis. Well, dear Filthy Dreams readers, he IS the King! Praise his name! Elvis in the Highest! So in order to finally put our Elvis obsession into a playlist … Continue reading
Honest To Goodness, Indiana: Filthy Dreams’ Hoosier Travel Yelp Diary
Why hello there, dearest Filthy Dreams readers! Why don’t you settle in for a Rail Splitter…or six! As you may have noticed, faithful filth fanatics, we took a short break from blogging about trash and other sleaze last week as we took a trip into the heart of Hoosier country. That’s right–As the rest of the … Continue reading