Move | Boychild + Jack Halberstam en conversation

Boychild + Jack Halberstam en conversation :

Dance of Darkness : a performance, a conversation, a repetition for the future.

18h, Petite Salle

In Conversation is an ongoing collaborative series that lives in the tension of the space between. In this iteration, dance of darkness, both performative artist talk and lecture looks to the foundations of Butoh, an anti-dance practice that arose in Japan following World War II, queer theatre and the practice of lip-synching.

Boychild is a movement-based performance artist whose work operates through improvisation as a mode of survival and world building. Her work insists on the liminal, performative space where becoming meets representation. Adamant about the visceral experience of live visual performance, she makes a case for how the movement of form can communicate what remains impenetrable in images, and through language. Her performances have been presented at MoMA PS1, NY, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, MOCA Los Angeles, MOMA Warsaw, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, ICA London, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, MACBA, ICA London, the Sydney Biennial. Boychild has toured with Mykki Blanco, and collaborated with Korakrit Arunanondchai, Wu Tsang, as well as the streetwear label Hood By Air.

Jack Halberstam is Professor of Gender Studies and English at Columbia University. Halberstam is the author of six books including: The Queer Art of Failure (Duke UP, 2011) and Gaga Feminism and, most recently, a short book titled Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variance (University of California Press). Halberstam is currently working on several projects including a book titled WILD THING: QUEER THEORY AFTER NATURE on queer anarchy, performance and protest culture at the intersections between animality, the human and the environment.