Pixelated Lesbian Mixtape surveys the wicked times of Malaysian-American artist Azian Nurudin. Made between 1986 and 1999, these nine films and videos feature leather and whips in the streets and S&M havens in the sheets. While Azian’s contemporaries from a “brat pack” of insurgent women artists like Cecilia Dougherty and Leslie Singer quickly achieved attention, the expanse of Nurudin’s work has never been fully exhibited or appreciated.
Ignited by unabashed, defiant queer passion, Azian renders her politics and sexuality through murky pixels and radical propositions for self-defence. This retrospective is a rare opportunity to spotlight, re-contextualise, and experience an almost-forgotten voice from a monumental moment in queer history.
The screening will be followed by an online Q&A with Azian.
