Lectures, Italy, Roma, 01 January 1970
Judith/Jack Halbertsam - Kyrahm + Julius Kaiser
literature, art and drag king
ROME - Casa Internazionale delle Donne
Via della Lungara 19 / Via San Francesco di Seles 1 (Trastevere)
7 DICEMBRE 2010 h 18.30
organizza: 5 giornate lesbiche e Kesbilé
Tuesday, December 7th 2010 in Rome (Casa Internazionale delle Donne) Jack/Judith Halberstam will present her new book “Masculinity without men” edited by Federica Frabetti. For this occasion Kyrahm and Julius Kaiser will illustrate their artistic work and research.
Judith Halberstam is Professor of English and Director of The Center for Feminist Research at University of Southern California. In the broader cultural sphere, she has made contributions as a gender and queer theorist and author; he is also a participant in the drag king community under the name Jack Halberstam. She published several books including The Drag King Book, along with Del LaGrace Volcano. “Masculinity without Men” is a collection of her most famous essays translated for the first time into Italian and edited by Federica Frabetti.
Drag Kings are mostly female performance artists who dress in masculine drag and personify male gender stereotypes as part of their performance. Abroad this practice started many years ago. In Italiy this happened quite recently. It is not only a cross-dressing practice. The Drag King movement wants to deconstruct gender roles as imposed by tradition and culture, exploring the fluidity of genders and identities. Julius Kaiser is a representative reference of this expression in Italy.
Jack and Julius met for the first time in 2006. Julius facilitated Jack’s presentation of the books “Female Masculinity” and “In a Queer space and time” in Rome. In that occasion he made his debut as Drag King gaining his first stage name “Brutus” by Jack himself.
Kyrahm is a conceptual artist, body artist and live performance artist at theatres, art galleries and museums. While she’s always being fascinated by female masculinity, she felt the need to bring the drag king issue in the guise of performance art in Italy and abroad. The Drag King show is commonly known as grotesque and ironic, accessible mainly within the Queer/LGBT community. Kyrahm and Julius felt the urgency to leave the comfort zone of the queer community to go and contaminate other contexts to widely spread their message. Their collaboration gave birth to "Human Installation I: Gender Obsolescence” that gained several international art prizes. "Gender Obsolescence" shakes and moves, the impact of the naked bodies is enhanced by the sacred distance with the audience that attends in respectful silence the ritual of woman to man transformation done by Julius Kaiser. The work is presented in the US among the 30 best gender-exploration performances in the world; in 2009 won the Arte Laguna Prize in Venice.
Kyrahm included Gender Obsolescence in her work “Tryptich” which explores the concept of Mutation and metamorphosis. The powerful changes of the body in the early stages of life, extreme body art and Christian iconography, and the fluidity of sex create “dangerous” but equally fascinating parallelism between transsexuality and God. Triptych won the On line vote at the Celeste Prize International 2010 and will be shown in New York in December.
"When we receive such acknowledgments it’s the entire community to win. It is important that our work is shown to Judith / Jack Halberstam, since we are making a cultural transformation happen in both the contemporary art context as well as in the drag king culture”.
All this will happen Tuesday 7th December 2010 at 6.30 p.m. in Roma Casa Internazionale delle Donne (Via della Lungara 19).
Organizers: 5 giornate Lesbiche and Kesbilè
Judith/Jack Halberstam: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Halberstam
Obsolescenza del genere: http://www.vimeo.com/15224492
Trittico: http://www.vimeo.com/17035173
contatti
tel (+39) 340.6479392 - 333.5300128
info@extremegenderart.it
www.kyrahm.blogspot.com
www.juliuskaiser.blogspot.com
www.extremegenderart.it
www.kyrahm.com
www.juliuskaiser.com
literature, art and drag king
ROME - Casa Internazionale delle Donne
Via della Lungara 19 / Via San Francesco di Seles 1 (Trastevere)
7 DICEMBRE 2010 h 18.30
organizza: 5 giornate lesbiche e Kesbilé
Tuesday, December 7th 2010 in Rome (Casa Internazionale delle Donne) Jack/Judith Halberstam will present her new book “Masculinity without men” edited by Federica Frabetti. For this occasion Kyrahm and Julius Kaiser will illustrate their artistic work and research.
Judith Halberstam is Professor of English and Director of The Center for Feminist Research at University of Southern California. In the broader cultural sphere, she has made contributions as a gender and queer theorist and author; he is also a participant in the drag king community under the name Jack Halberstam. She published several books including The Drag King Book, along with Del LaGrace Volcano. “Masculinity without Men” is a collection of her most famous essays translated for the first time into Italian and edited by Federica Frabetti.
Drag Kings are mostly female performance artists who dress in masculine drag and personify male gender stereotypes as part of their performance. Abroad this practice started many years ago. In Italiy this happened quite recently. It is not only a cross-dressing practice. The Drag King movement wants to deconstruct gender roles as imposed by tradition and culture, exploring the fluidity of genders and identities. Julius Kaiser is a representative reference of this expression in Italy.
Jack and Julius met for the first time in 2006. Julius facilitated Jack’s presentation of the books “Female Masculinity” and “In a Queer space and time” in Rome. In that occasion he made his debut as Drag King gaining his first stage name “Brutus” by Jack himself.
Kyrahm is a conceptual artist, body artist and live performance artist at theatres, art galleries and museums. While she’s always being fascinated by female masculinity, she felt the need to bring the drag king issue in the guise of performance art in Italy and abroad. The Drag King show is commonly known as grotesque and ironic, accessible mainly within the Queer/LGBT community. Kyrahm and Julius felt the urgency to leave the comfort zone of the queer community to go and contaminate other contexts to widely spread their message. Their collaboration gave birth to "Human Installation I: Gender Obsolescence” that gained several international art prizes. "Gender Obsolescence" shakes and moves, the impact of the naked bodies is enhanced by the sacred distance with the audience that attends in respectful silence the ritual of woman to man transformation done by Julius Kaiser. The work is presented in the US among the 30 best gender-exploration performances in the world; in 2009 won the Arte Laguna Prize in Venice.
Kyrahm included Gender Obsolescence in her work “Tryptich” which explores the concept of Mutation and metamorphosis. The powerful changes of the body in the early stages of life, extreme body art and Christian iconography, and the fluidity of sex create “dangerous” but equally fascinating parallelism between transsexuality and God. Triptych won the On line vote at the Celeste Prize International 2010 and will be shown in New York in December.
"When we receive such acknowledgments it’s the entire community to win. It is important that our work is shown to Judith / Jack Halberstam, since we are making a cultural transformation happen in both the contemporary art context as well as in the drag king culture”.
All this will happen Tuesday 7th December 2010 at 6.30 p.m. in Roma Casa Internazionale delle Donne (Via della Lungara 19).
Organizers: 5 giornate Lesbiche and Kesbilè
Judith/Jack Halberstam: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Halberstam
Obsolescenza del genere: http://www.vimeo.com/15224492
Trittico: http://www.vimeo.com/17035173
contatti
tel (+39) 340.6479392 - 333.5300128
info@extremegenderart.it
www.kyrahm.blogspot.com
www.juliuskaiser.blogspot.com
www.extremegenderart.it
www.kyrahm.com
www.juliuskaiser.com
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