… the hunky way-gay electroclash musician and performance artist, who somehow escaped notice on this blog until a photo from a 2017 Out magazine piece (“Gallery: Wet n Wild With Casey Spooner”) about him popped up on my Pinterest yesterday, with this, um, hose-drinking shot:
(#1) There are contexts in which this would be innocent fun — but this is not one of them
The rest of this posting will be soaked through with playful, entertaining queerness, from a performer who deploys his very muscular high masculinity to jab at and undermine conventional notions of gender, sexuality, identity, and relationships. That might not be to your taste; use your judgment,
The background. Plucked from a rambling Wikipedia entry:
Casey David Spooner (born February 2, 1970) is an American musician and artist. He resides in Paris, Los Angeles, and New York City.
… Spooner met Warren Fischer in 1998 while attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the two would go on to form the musical duo group Fischerspooner. The group worked in performance, photography, and immersive enterprises such as museum exhibitions and musical acts. Spooner primarily wrote songs and performed vocals for the group while the classically trained Fischer composed the songs. The group grew to over 20 performers, most of whom were dancers and collaborative guest vocalists, and activated numerous spaces like concert halls, clubs, construction sites, art galleries, and more. “We started as a performance art piece about entertainment that ultimately became legitimate entertainment,” said Casey Spooner, when talking about the group’s origins in an April 2009 interview
… Spooner exhibited and produced a catalogue in 2017 called “SIR: character studies, promotional materials, self actualization and contemporary photography 2013 – 2018” at Mumok [the museum in Vienna]. The exhibition included a photographic series by Yuki James which showcased Spooner, friends, collaborators, acquaintances, and anonymous men from the internet in various sexual regalia and leather-and-chains bondage. At the close of the exhibition, Spooner performed “Deinstall / Dismantle / Destroy”, destroying the imagery at the exhibition and making new works from paintings and collages.
The Fischerspooner life thread and the SIR life thread got woven together in Fischerspooner’s album SIR (2018). Here’s the official music video for the first song on the album, “Have Fun Tonight”: “a queer dance ballad about polyamory (…or polyagony) encouraging your lover to go out and have fun without you”.
The Out magazine piece. “Gallery: Wet n Wild With Casey Spooner” by Justin Moran on 9/1/17, with a couple scene-setting shots of CS:
(#2) Genuine muscularity, achieved by a tough regimen of gym work; he’s partial to the long hair, but cuts it short for some characters; he seems to keep the mustache through everything, including the gender-bending parts
(#3) A modest crotch shot
After this, all the Out shots are water-themed, as in #1.
A recent photo spread. From the Fucking Young! site, “Casey Spooner by Kristina Wilson” by Adriano B.: CS photographed by KW and styled by Gia Seo. Two shots:
(#4) Some eye makeup and a cheesecake pose, and there you are
(#5) The slut with the beautiful butt; yours for a song
There’s more, oh so much more; the guy is both prolific and energetic (as well as promiscuous, but that doesn’t make a professional portfolio.)