Del
LaGrace
Volcano
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germann		 Del LaGrace Volcano was conceived in Kansas City and born in California
in the Year of the Fire Rooster, or Year of the Hot Cock as he prefers to
call it. Assigned female at birth this was a category he did his best to fit into
for 37 years. In 1996 he decided to "privilege" testosterone over estrogen
and decided to let the beard he had been hiding for his entire adult life to
grow. After a year of being perceived as a "Bearded Lady" he decided to
supplement his 'natural' testosterone levels with extraneous Sustanon 250
injected muscularly once a month. He sees both maleness and femaleness
to be a social construction necessary at this current moment of cultural
evolution and to this end "passes" as male but perceives himself to be
intergendered rather than either male or female. Whereas a transsexual
goes through a process commonal referred to as "transition" from male to
female or female to male, Del sees himself as continually in motion, not
going from A to Z, just going!

website of Del LaGrace Volcano
disgrace@dircon.co.uk

Del has lived in London for 17 years, working as an
artist/photographer and accidental performer. His exceptional pictures give insight in his former life as a queer dyke in San Francisco and London which create a visual demonstration of
the immense diversity to be found in transgendered worlds.
It was through performing masculinity as a Drag King that he
made the decision to abdicate from the bipolar either/or prison
of the mono-gendered world and live an intergendered existence. 
Del describes his sexuality as pansexual, meaning he does
not discriminate on the basis of gender. He would not call
himself bisexual as this reinscribes the (fallacious) notion
that only two genders exist. He is especially attracted to
deviant masculinities, such as butch dykes and bald, tattoed
bioboys
 Del is part of the clan of transgendered new men in London who 'experiment' with male hormones. Among them are his close friends Hans Scheirl and Svar Simpson, who call themselves Cyborgs -meaning a new, artificially created human being who uses machines and prosthetics to broaden their own human consciousness. As an artist community, they are interested in general in transformations, and their work reflects their research on perception and the human mind. Del LaGrace Volcano has published three monographs:
LOVEBITES, Gay Men's Press, London 1991
THE DRAG KING BOOK, (with Judith "Jack" Halberstam), Serpent's Tail, London 1999
SUBLIME MUTATIONS, Konkursbuch Verlag, Germany 2000		 Videos include:

PANSEXUAL PUBLIC PORN aka The Adventures of Hans & Del, 1997
A PRODIGAL SON?, 1998
JOURNEY INTERSEX, 1999

He is currently working on a new video documentary, called THE INTERSEX FILES.

Upcoming exhibitions include:

One Trans Show
Format Gallery, Malmo, Sweden 
15th December 2001-31st January 2002

FALLEN HEROES: Masculinity & Representation (w/ Cindy Sherman,
Gilbert & George, John Coplans & others)
ESPAI D'ART Contemporani De Castello
25th April 2002-23 June 2002