Kiss my genders / [Guest curator: Vincent Honoré; assistant curator: Tarini Malik; exhibition organiser: Eimear O'Raw].

Date:
2019
  • Books

About this work

Description

'Kiss my genders' celebrates the work of more than 20 international artists whose practices explore and engage with gender fluidity, as well as non-binary, trans and intersex identities. Published alongside an exhibition, the book features works from the late 1960s and early 1970s through to the present, and focuses on artists who draw on their own experiences to create content and forms that challenge accepted or stable definitions of gender. Working across painting, immersive installations, sculpture, text, photography and film, many of these artists treat the body as a sculpture, and in doing so open up new possibilities for gender, beauty, and representations of the human form. The publication includes texts from writers, theorists, curators, poets and artists who have made key contributions to thinking in the field. From pop culture and gender dissidence to the embrace of the 'monstrous' or 'freaky', from the politics of prose to transfeminism and politics on the street, each of these writers throws light on a different way of seeing. Also featured is a round-table discussion between a selection of artists and exhibition curator Vincent Honoré.

Publication/Creation

London : Hayward Gallery, 2019.

Physical description

239 pages : colour illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes

Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Hayward Gallery, London, 12 June to 8 September 2019.

Contents

Foreword / Ralph Rugoff -- Kiss my genders: a conversation / Vincent Honoré with Ajamu, Travis Alabanza and Victoria Sin -- The Sea / Travis Alabanza -- Making a move: object lessons in trans* art / Jack Halberstam -- On the transfeminine / Susan Stryker -- Useless man / Paul Clinton -- Lingerie / Jay Bernard -- Chimeras / Charlie Fox -- Queer reclamations: how drag splits and rebuilds the self / Amrou Al-Kadhi -- To strike a pose is to strike a threat / Manuel Segade -- [second transfeminist tract/i] / Nat Raha -- 7 methods of a freak theory of contemporary art / Renate Lorenz -- Glory / Tarek Lakhrissi.

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    History of Medicine
    TW.AL
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9781853323645
  • 1853323640