untitled, from the Contact Studies Series, performance, 2010. Performed during ‘Prance,’ an alternative queer community event at Gallery Gachet, Vancouver. Inspired by Margaret Dragu's 'Eine Kleine Nacht Radio,' 1999.

I apply lipstick to my beard and moustache. I ask randomly selected people around me for a kiss. The transfer of pigment records the contact between us.

Photograph features artist Heidi Naagtegal and was taken by a kind stranger at the party.