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Clean Up Your Act You Dirty Faggots!

Clean Up Your Act You Dirty Faggots!

2005-2010

Bleach and iodine on paper

Dimensions variable

Clean up your act! is a series of gay pornographic images made with bleach and iodine on paper. As depicted in the adjacent pairs of images, the iodine will fade away and the bleach will corrode through the paper over time. The source material is from gay pornography from the 1970’s, before the onset of HIV/AIDS. The series is a ghostly memorial to sickness and loss, and an awkward collision of gay rights, normalization and the sterilization of sex.
Clean Up Your Act You Dirty Faggots! (Series One) Boys in the Band (original)
Clean Up Your Act You Dirty Faggots! (Series One) Boys in the Band (faded)
Clean Up Your Act You Dirty Faggots! (Series One) Police Force (original)
Clean Up Your Act Clean Up Your Act You Dirty Faggots! (Series One) Police Force (faded)You Dirty Faggots! (SeriesOne2c)
Clean Up Your Act You Dirty Faggots! (Series One) Wipe-down (original)
Clean Up Your Act You Dirty Faggots! (Series One) Wipe-down (faded)
Clean Up Your Act You Dirty Faggots! (Series Two) Sword Fight (original)
Clean Up Your Act You Dirty Faggots! (Series Two) Sword Fight (faded)
Clean Up Your Act You Dirty Faggots! (Series Two) Inspection (original)
Clean Up Your Act You Dirty Faggots! (Series Two) Inspection (faded)
Clean Up Your Act You Dirty Faggots! (Series Two) ‘oh’ face (original)
Clean Up Your Act You Dirty Faggots! (Series Two) ‘oh’ face (faded)
Clean Up Your Act You Dirty Faggots! (Series Two) Bed Jerk (original)
Clean Up Your Act You Dirty Faggots! (Series Two) bed jerk (faded)
Clean Up Your Act You Dirty Faggots! (Series Three) 6 of 6 (original)
Clean Up Your Act You Dirty Faggots! (Series Three) 6 of 6 (faded)
Clean Up Your Act You Dirty Faggots! (Series Three) 3 of 6 (original)
Clean Up Your Act You Dirty Faggots! (Series Three) 3 of 6 (faded)
Clean Up Your Act You Dirty Faggots! (Series Three) 2 of 6 (original)
Clean Up Your Act You Dirty Faggots! (Series Three) 2 of 6 (faded)
Clean Up Your Act You Dirty Faggots! (Series Three) 1 of 6 (original)
Clean Up Your Act You Dirty Faggots! (Series Three) 1 of 6 (faded)
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