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|confronting_bodies=Audiences, Presenting museum | |confronting_bodies=Audiences, Presenting museum | ||
|medium=Film Video | |medium=Film Video | ||
|date_of_action=June-August 2022 | |||
|location=New London, Connecticut, USA | |||
|description_of_content="My Snake is Bigger Than Your Snake" is a video piece with humorous and burlesque references to sex. The artist recalls memories of her father through the lead character, Lobsta Queen, with hallucinatory visuals. Through campy depictions, Goyette uses references to Adam and Eve, Roman goddesses, and animal figures to illustrate her process of grief with her father's passing. | |||
|description_of_incident=The artwork was included in the exhibition ''The Will to Change: Gathering as Practice'' at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum in New London, Connecticut organized by The Nasty Women Connecticut, their sixth annual exhibition. Audience members complained that the piece was disturbing and inappropriate for the children attending the exhibition. | |||
|description_of_result=Ms. Goyette's work was taken down three days after the opening of the exhibition, and she was asked to offer a non-video piece instead. The organizers placed an explanatory statement next to the substitute piece acknowledging the censorship. The statement included a QR code linking to the original video. | |||
|image=My Snake is Bigger Than Your Snake | |||
|sourcetext=https://ncac.org/news/lyman-allyn-art-museum-in-connecticut-removes-work; https://filmfestivalflix.com/film/my-snake-is-bigger-than-your-snake/ | |||
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