Kiss my genders / [Guest curator: Vincent Honoré; assistant curator: Tarini Malik; exhibition organiser: Eimear O'Raw; authors: Amrou Al-Kadhi [and five others]; short texts written by Lucy Biddle].
Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Hayward Gallery, London, 12 June to 8 September 2019.
Contents:
Glory / Tarek Lakhrissi -- Artist plates. Ajamu -- Amrou Al-Kadhi and Holly Falconer -- Lyle Ashton Harris -- Sadie Benning -- Nayland Blake -- Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz -- Flo Brooks -- Luciano Castelli -- Jimmy Desana -- Jes Fan -- Chitra Ganesh -- Martine Gutierrez -- Nicholas Hlobo -- Peter Hujar -- Juliana Huxtable -- Joan Jett Blakk -- Zoe Leonard -- Ad Minoliti -- Pierre Molinier -- Kent Monkman -- Zanele Muholi -- Catherine Opie -- Planningtorock -- Christina Quarles -- Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings -- Hunter Reynolds -- Athi-Patra Ruga -- Tejal Shah -- Vitoria Sin -- Jenkin van Zyl -- Del LaGrace Volcano. 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 pose a threat / Manuel Segade -- [second transfeminist tract/i] / Nat Raha -- 7 methods of a freak theory of contemporary art / Renate Lorenz -- Glory / Tarek Lakhrissi -- Artist plates. Ajamu -- Amrou Al-Kadhi and Holly Falconer -- Lyle Ashton Harris -- Sadie Benning -- Nayland Blake -- Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz -- Flo Brooks -- Luciano Castelli -- Jimmy Desana -- Jes Fan -- Chitra Ganesh -- Martine Gutierrez -- Nicholas Hlobo -- Peter Hujar -- Juliana Huxtable -- Joan Jett Blakk -- Zoe Leonard -- Ad Minoliti -- Pierre Molinier -- Kent Monkman -- Zanele Muholi -- Catherine Opie -- Planningtorock -- Christina Quarles -- Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings -- Hunter Reynolds -- Athi-Patra Ruga -- Tejal Shah -- Vitoria Sin -- Jenkin van Zyl -- Del LaGrace Volcano.
Summary:
'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.
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