By Kate DurbinThis is a companion piece to Meghan Vicks' "Questions at the Edge: On Interpretation & Expectations, Lady Gaga & Gaga Stigmata"*filmed in Bellyflop swimming pool gallery, Los Ange...
Friday, 29 July 2011
Wednesday, 27 July 2011
Introducing: Our New Creative Editor!
Gaga Stigmata is delighted to announce our new Creative Editor, Samatha Cohen! Below, a message from Sam to our readers.XOKate & MeghanHi Everyone!I am beyond thrilled to be joining Gaga Stigmata as Creative Editor! I’ll be curating the site’s creative works, including fiction, poetry, visual, video, mixed media, & performance art, as well as Bled Threads.I had amazing talks with Kate and Meghan and we’d like to see Gaga Stigmata’s...
Tuesday, 26 July 2011
Traductor, Traditore: (Un)translating Born This Way’s Duplicitous Message
By Samantha CohenIt’s taken a long time for me to respond to “Born This Way.” It took a long time for me to watch the video, even. The first time I heard the song, I had to close its window before it ended. Oh Gaga, I thought. No.Maybe it is silly, embarrassing even, to have such a prolonged emotional response to a pop song. To be actually saddened. But in the bio-deterministic world of mainstream media, Gaga had been an anti-essentialist beacon,...
Monday, 25 July 2011
Hair Textiles and Gaga
By Tove HermansonWe all know Gaga loves her wigs, but she also dabbles with clothes that resemble wigs, as with this LaVer dress she recently wore to a taping of The View:Gaga on the View, May 2011LaVer couture hair dress, 2010 collectionSince medieval times, locks of hair have been given to lovers as amulets, and the Victorians wove hair of the deceased into jewelry (more on fashion and mourning). These customs reveal the sentimental properties...
Friday, 22 July 2011
Wednesday, 20 July 2011
YOGAGA
By Meghan BlalockCut the ignorance-born doubt abiding in your heart by the sword of Self-knowledge, and get up (to fight), O Arjuna. In the battlefield of our hearts we all must face both our virtues and our vices, our Jesuses and our Judases. Sex, money, vanity. By approaching both the dark and light parts of ourselves, we aim not to destroy but to acknowledge them as inextricable and equally powerful elements of our Selves. They will aid us in...
