SELF & OTHER

The politics of Power. The architecture of Resistance. The aesthetics of Emptiness. And other discursive inQUEERies...

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Please read my review of Young Jean Lee’s Untitled Feminist Show, originally published on the performing arts site, Culturebot.
Excerpt/Teaser:
In each of the show’s vignettes, the performers temporarily position  themselves in a context that feels familiar; existing in historical  narratives and power arrangements that momentarily render them as  feminized caricatures of themselves. These familiar gender tropes allow  audience members to locate themselves and feel known. After all,  identity is a relational exchange. I am “this” to your “that.”  But as each vignette progresses, the performers become unwieldy,  unpredictable, boundless versions of themselves, seeping out into the  margins and sliding outside the lines of normative gender expectations.

Please read my review of Young Jean Lee’s Untitled Feminist Show, originally published on the performing arts site, Culturebot.

Excerpt/Teaser:

In each of the show’s vignettes, the performers temporarily position themselves in a context that feels familiar; existing in historical narratives and power arrangements that momentarily render them as feminized caricatures of themselves. These familiar gender tropes allow audience members to locate themselves and feel known. After all, identity is a relational exchange. I am “this” to your “that.” But as each vignette progresses, the performers become unwieldy, unpredictable, boundless versions of themselves, seeping out into the margins and sliding outside the lines of normative gender expectations.

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