Just as the Taliban were actually trying to assasinate 14 year old Malala Yousafzai, an activist for girls' right to education in Pakistan, Kembra Pfahler performed a mock funeral for patriarchic attitudes at PARTICIPANT INC in New York City. The symbolically fitting performance was part of her current show "Fuck Island," a major solo exhibition of her new work. “Fuck Island” is a protest anthem, love song, and manifesto written for her band, The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black. As Pfahler describes this song-as-exhibition: “It’s the first annual Karen Black cock festival. But it’s really more like a happy funeral. We are celebrating the death of the patriarch, and you are all party to this secret.”
