Arte Tag: queer

EGON BOTTEGHI

Posted on October 5, 2017 by Orlando -

Egon Botteghi works are theatrical performances born from the body of a trans person, a body of muscle and blood, bone and fat, experience, thoughts, voices, cultural elaboration and critical spirit, formed from a collage of writing, Reading, video interviews, music and song, to tell their own story and the stories of other trans people, over and above physchology as the only means of existence.

“I am a transsexual man. I am not a trans because I want to deny the woman in me because I’m ashamed of her, even discovering I was trans made me understand I could make shine my pride in my feminine side that is nothing more than eternal feminism and above all make shine the person I really am Ego-n. Applause to argon because this is his way”. (From “Call me Egon”. diary of a transsexual man”. Theatrical performance).

Cecilia Grasso

Posted on April 17, 2017 by Giulia Casalini -

How would it be, for a woman, living a day as a man?

The background of a drag show is the opportunity to explore inside the most intimate aspects of Kinging.

From stories and experiences of a group of Drag Kings, daily recorded, it emerges a construction practice identity staging gender stereotypes and bares the predominance of men in our society.

The author, with participant but not intrusive gaze, show fascination and complexity of a little unknown universe, where the surplus becomes spectacle, and the transformation is liberating narrative of the self.

Senith

Posted on February 2, 2017 by Giulia Casalini -

Senith is a queer drag performer, curator of workshops and events, and queer activist. Co-founder of Eyes Wild Drag, Senith works with the experimentation with roles, genders and the erotic imaginary, and has contributed to the first performative and critical construction of the Faux Queen in Italy, redrawing the queer imaginary around the feminine/femminile. Senith has often captured the attention of national and international media. In 2012, she was involved in a international tour that took her in numerous European cities, as well as in the US. She is the artistic director of the festival GendErotica. In 2013, in the occasion of the festival, she organized the first Italian (and European) Fem Conference, which gathered together numerous artists, activists, and academics from various parts of the world. In the same year, the festival was hosted by Arte Fiera in the city of Verona, in the space curated by the organization CUNTemporary. In 2015, the “Erotic Lunch” was then born: a lunch-show dedicated to erotism, of which Senith is performer and art director. In 2016, Senith creates her first solo show, BAD ASSolo. In the same year, she plays a role as co-protagonist in the documentary Al di là dello specchio (Beyond the mirror), by Cecilia Grasso, which features in several festivals both in Italy and abroad. The film won the best direction award at the Newark International Film Festival (USA). Morover, Senith participates to the realization of the work La Luna in Folle by the Italo-Libanese artist Adelita Hosni-Bey (which was selected for the Maxxi Award 2016) by performing at the Museo Nazionale per le Arti del XXI Secolo on the 29th of Sept.

Lilly Lablonde

Posted on January 8, 2017 by Giulia Casalini -

I am a perfomer, writer and director for theatre and cinema. My artistic interest focuses on the desire to represent stories that hardly find their own space in the art world. I have always been very passionate about the topic of gender identity and sexuality.

In my performative works I experiment with different languages of art communication (video, literature, sound and poetry). In the last two years I have been mainly focused in the realization of short films: Immaginare T (2014) and The Second Closet (2015).

Under the artistic name Lilly Lablonde I created the international art project Bibliothèque Érotique that has the goal to work on the topic of erotism and sexuality through literature and the live performance.

A Queer Culture Illustrated Guide

Posted on October 11, 2015 by Giulia Casalini -

A Queer Guide is a for-dummies encyclopedia about LGBT world, terms and icons. It’s a fun way to learn and find the things you need to know to fight against ignorance and discrimination. The Guide is open to contribution and to be updated every time someone has something to add.

A Queer Guide is also a little printed booklet. You can purchase it as a nice gift to your loved one, homophobic neighbours, Santa Claus, your parents, and straight friends who constantly ask you “…what’s the deal with you?”

Silvia Chiogna

Posted on October 11, 2015 by Giulia Casalini -

Per il Film MIRCO ho scelto di non lavorare secondo lo stile documentaristico convenzionale. Non volevo osservare le persone dall’esterno e fare un film sugli altri, i Transgender, i diversi. Volevo affrontare l’argomento Generi nel suo significato generale perché è un argomento che penso riguardi tutti. Per questa ragione, a metà del film, entro in scena io stessa come persona che nel film dovrebbe rappresentare la classica ottica bipolare uomo-donna.

Non ho voluto fare un film che affronta l’argomento raccontando solo il lato deprimente di chi purtroppo si scontra tutti i giorni con una società di generi normativa e rigida, anzi, ho cercato di esplorare questa tematica con leggerezza, riconoscendo nel gioco e nello scherzo un’occasione per mostrare un punto di vista differente. Per questo ho realizzato insieme a uno dei protagonisti alcune scene da Agent provocateur, infrangendo le regole di comportamento di genere e osservare le reazioni delle persone, semplicemente filmandole.

Eyes Wild Drag

Posted on November 23, 2014 by Giulia Casalini -

Eyes Wild Drag is a queer-gender-drag group based in Rome that has worked for several years experimenting with genders, roles and erotic imaginary which represent the main forms of expression employed by women in Italy.

Attivist* queer, they curate workshops and drag events (standing on the thin line between harrowing absurdity and magic poetry), they rediscover and redraw the imaginary feminine queer and they organise Genderotica, an international festival of queer art. In 2012 they travelled around the world for exhibiting their work in different European cities and US states.

In 2013 they were guests of Arte Fiera di Verona, the biggest art fair of Verona, in the space curated by association Cuntemporary. In 2013, they organised the most activist and international edition of GendErotica, bringing for the first time within the Italian queer community the concept of Fem. In the same occasion, they established the first Italian (and European) Fem Conference with the help and contribution of many activists and teachers coming from around the world. They’ve currently been working on the new GendErotica.

Andrea Abbatangelo

Posted on November 20, 2014 by Giulia Casalini -

Andrea Abbatangelo (°1981, Terni, Italy) makes sculptures and films. By applying a wide variety of contemporary strategies, Abbatangelo plays with the idea of the mortality of an artwork confronted with the power of a transitory appearance, which is, by being restricted in time, much more intense.

His sculptures are an investigation of concepts such as authenticity and objectivity by using an encyclopaedic approach and quasi-scientific precision and by referencing documentaries, ‘fact-fiction’ and popular scientific equivalents. By using an ever-growing archive of found documents to create autonomous artworks, he tries to increase the dynamic between audience and author by objectifying emotions and investigating the duality that develops through different interpretations.

Ruben Montini

Posted on November 19, 2014 by Giulia Casalini -

Born in Oristano in 1986, Ruben Montini currently lives and works in Berlin. His artistic research, mainly focused on themes of gender, studies the implications of the radical and often violent language which has characterised feminist performances since the beginning of the 60s to queer themes.

Amongst his most recent appearances are the performance Cosa resta di noi – Requiem all’Oratoire du Louvre (Paris, 2015) and the collective Fuck Taboo, curated by Carlo Medesani (2013, Galleria Camera16, Milan).

http://www.massimodeluca.it

Mona Lisa Tina

Posted on November 15, 2014 by Giulia Casalini -

Mona Lisa Tina is an artist, performer and art therapist based in Bologna. Born in Francavilla Fontana (BR) in 1997, she graduated in 2005 in Painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti Bologna [Academy of Fine Art of Bologna] and she mastered in Art Therapy in 2012. Since 2014 she’s activated a formative project on identity at the GAM of Turin in collaboration with the psychoanalyst Giovanni Castaldi. The artist’s work centres on reflections on the body as the site of constant processes of psychic and physical transformation. Her actions are rituals in which the artist’s body is coherently proposed as asexual, always changing and contaminated and where the place of action is often modified in its spatial coordinates. Her performances promote moments of ancestral auto-conscience and of real identity reappropriation so as to introduce an alternative physicality that frees itself from beauty standards.