“Eroticism isn’t sex; its sexuality transformed by the human imagination. It’s the thoughts, dreams, anticipation, unruly impulses, and even painful memories which make up our vast erotic landscapes. It’s energized by our entire human experience, layered with early childhood experiences of touch, play, or trauma, which later become cornerstones of our erotic life.” Esther Perel

Cut Me Up Issue 12: Eros, curated by Allan Bealy, is a selection of 18 artworks that explore the realm of eroticism. The erotic is not merely synonymous with sex, but rather encompasses a range of human emotions and experiences integral to creativity. For this issue, artists were asked to imagine their own erotic landscape through the medium of collage while incorporating elements from Cut Me Up Issue 11: Souvenir.

Curatorial prompts for Issue 12 artists:

• Embrace the transformative power of collage to manifest your perfect erotic vision!

• Celebrate the erotic through expressions of the diversity of personal gender identities and sexual orientations.

• Consider addressing manifestations of sex and sexuality in popular media that need to be changed.

• Find inspiration in erotic works from the history of collage, including the lyrical paper cut-outs of Pierre Matisse, postwar political collages of Hannah Hoch, the collages of sex educator Zoe Ligon, the playful erotic cutups of Flore Kunst and James Gallagher’s lively studies of the posed body.

• All eligible submissions must incorporate some portion or portions of Cut Me Up: Issue 11.

Allan Bealy’s original curatorial call for Issue 12 can be found here.

Issue 12 Cover Art:
Naomi White

Issue 12 Artists:
allison anne
Craig Auge
Liberty Blake
Cheryl Chudyk
Nata Drachinskaya
Thorsten Fuhrmann
James Gallagher
Melanie Garcia
Axelle Kieffer
Flore Kunst
Samael Leopold-Sullivan
Chad Martinez
Angela Reimer
Dan Romer
Erika Shallcross
Leslie Siegel
Rosanne Walsh
Naomi White

All of the 100 response artworks made by 75 artists for Cut Me Up Issue 12: Eros can be found here.