Last Chance – fierce pussy amplified: Chapter Eight

arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody / Joy Episalla / Zoe Leonard / Carrie Yamaoka: fierce pussy amplified: Chapter Eight
Curated by Jo-ey Tang
March 2 – May 11, 2025
at PARTICIPANT INC, New York, USA

PARTICIPANT INC presents arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody / Joy Episalla / Zoe Leonard / Carrie Yamaoka: fierce pussy amplified: Chapter Eight, curated by Jo-ey Tang. Chapter Eight is the latest exhibition chapter of an ongoing project that explores the resonances between the individual practices of the four artists, and in relation to their work as the queer art collective fierce pussy.

For the PARTICIPANT INC exhibition, fierce pussy has conceived a new work, I got all my sisters with me (2025), as a collective call for solidarity in the current moment. The poster takes up a line from Sister Sledge’s 1979 disco anthem “We Are Family” written by Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers.

Chapter Eight is dedicated to Nancy Brooks Brody (1962-2023).

Artforum – Video Interview with the Lesbian Collective fierce pussy:

Nancy Brooks Brody, Carrie Yamaoka, Zoe Leonard, and Joy Episalla—the four core members of the New York–based lesbian collective fierce pussy—talk about their art and activism on the occasion of Lauren O’Neill-Butler’s feature on the group in the February 2019 issue of Artforum.

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Article – LABOR OF LOVE by LAUREN O’NEILL-BUTLER ON THE ART OF FIERCE PUSSY in Artforum (2019).