DUETS:
NAYLAND BLAKE &
JUSTIN VIVIAN BOND
IN CONVERSATION ON JEROME CAJA

Editors: Nelson Santos
Published by Visual AIDS
88 pages
14 x 19 cm
Softcover
English
ISBN 978-0-9678425-0-9

Price: 75 lei


Nayland Blake and Justin Vivian Bond introduce us to the art and life of the extraordinary Jerome Caja (1958–1995), an artist and provocateur who transgressed the supposed boundaries of gender, performance, and art in the nightclub scene in San Francisco during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Caja’s outsize personality was matched by his powerful visual art, made with nontraditional materials like nail polish and human ashes, which details with humor, pathos, and deep insight the struggles of living with AIDS, finding love, and surviving.

With additional contributions by Anthony Cianciolo, Craig Corpora, Anna van der Meulen, Amy Scholder, and Chris E. Vargas.