Fainting Couch Feminists Episode 16: Peep Shows and Pornos: Alexandra Bischoff’s Absurd, Intimate Performance Art

In this absurd and sensual episode, dear friend and performance artist Alexandra Bischoff joins Mica to chat about her former job at The Fantasy Factory (Canada’s oldest sex shop franchise) and how it influenced her latest performance art pieces: “Peep Show Pop-Up” and “egg shells, egg shells.” Ali also discusses her love of embroidering vintage porno mags, a practice that pays homage to two very traditional forms of female labour: embroidery and sex work.

Writer and musician Mica Lemiski interviews women and non-binary artists about a range of topics (gender! politics! love! literature!) in a podcast best-suited to bitches, witches, and anyone who’s ever been called “hysterical.”

Episode Sixteen: Peep Shows and Pornos: Alexandra Bischoff’s Absurd, Intimate Performance Art

In this absurd and sensual episode, dear friend and performance artist Alexandra Bischoff joins Mica to chat about her former job at The Fantasy Factory (Canada’s oldest sex shop franchise) and how it influenced her latest performance art pieces: “Peep Show Pop-Up” and “egg shells, egg shells.” Ali also discusses her love of embroidering vintage porno mags, a practice that pays homage to two very traditional forms of female labour: embroidery and sex work.

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About the Host

Mica Lemiski is an MFA student at UBC and contributor to Room (“Tiny Parts,” Issue 39.2). Her thesis project is a combination of comedic personal essays and original music, which is being developed into a podcast series. She is the host of “Fainting Couch Feminists.” She is originally from Vernon, B.C. but is currently based in Vancouver.

Follow Mica on Twitter @MicaLemiski

Credits

Hosting, editing, and all music by Mica Lemiski 
Produced by Room magazine and Mica Lemiski

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