Workshop C: Sophia New and Martin Hargreaves
Self as other: gender performance and dispossession
The workshop investigates and explores how the dichotomy of subject/object relations within solo performance play out across the performativity of gender identity. Taking and sharing numerous examples of solo performances that challenge, and question how normative gender functions, we will try out new formations of doing and being, whilst questioning having and not-having.
By: Sophia New and Martin Hargreaves
By: Sophia New and Martin Hargreaves
Documentation&Reports
Soundtrack to "walk to walk"
28th of October A response to a task about writing a letter to your own gender and creating a "hybrid" of letters together in a group
Selfies
29th of October After the talk from Vaginal Davis we spent time discussion what issues it brought up for us - for instance when we laugh during such a discussion what are we laughing at? Are we laughing with V Davis or out of awkwardness? Or because we recognize of the subversions of content and form? Also whether as V. Davis suggests discourse in the media and academia has been emptied of a variety of voices and been flattened to specific homogeneous forms and names that are discussed. Using the texts from the day before we asked the students to consider how and where they might present them and include the idea of a 'selfie' a form of self portrait that one prepares of oneself. We encouraged students to also use media; photos, videos and audio recording. In the presentation what they made was also augmented either by the video having another sound added or live performances happening over the image (live drawing) or a rearrangement of the audience arena to transform the scene to somewhere else like the catwalk or runway. |
Gaze exercise
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