Melinda Gebbie: What is the Female Gaze?

An invasive exotic species in her own right, Melinda Gebbie was recently approached by a neighbourhood artist seeking fifty women contributors to a project based around her own fiftieth birthday. The Californian Underground Comix luminary and psychedelic visionary ventured enthusiastically that such a project could be an interesting way of promoting the female gaze. To which the artist replied, “Well, I try to include them whenever I can”, an earnest liberal response. True story.

In crackling documentary black and white, in a neurological rapture of colour, here is the female gaze in all its awesome and gorgeous lucidity. Here, at last, is Underground Heaven.

Presented in collaboration with Strange Attractor.