Italiano
Alex Hai is known as the first female gondolier in Venice, Italy. With the collaboration of the artist Yamada Hanako, he made a photographic series to tell about himself
Arte Tag: transgender
Silvia Chiogna
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.
Kyrahm e Julius Kaiser
Kyrahm is one of the most recognised figures of live art in Italy. She’s a conceptual artist, a video artist, body artist and international performer. She elaborates emotionally-charged performances in which everything that happens is real. She creates innovative concepts and moves between contemporary art and communication. Julius Kaiser is a videomaker, drag king and performance artist. Her own artistic research originates from experimenting and investigating social gender roles as to propose a more fluid vision which respects philosophical Queer theories. Meeting with Kyrahm gave Kaiser’s philosophical contents artistic expression through experimental performances which gained attention all over the world. Kaiser works also as a videomaker and workshops organiser. Kyrahm and Kaiser both operate in the underground scene and the contemporary art world in galleries, museums and international festivals. Together, they organise seminars and events and gave birth to the Italian artistic movement Human Installations.
AMAE
As a collaborative singularity, AMAE focuses on the tensions generated in marginalised bodies by heteronormative society. Amae’s research contaminates traditional languages of art communication (poetry, video, sound, photography, installation, performance) with mass media via photographic works and performances, which are often broadcast live on the web. Working on international platforms across the EU, AMAE focuses on intersubjectivity and transfer in performance art; inheritance and mimicry of behaviour; mimicry against emulation; identification and conflict; primary society and contemporary society; time and space of assimilation of empathetic behaviours; behaviours towards otherness; transient bodies; augmented reality.
Orlando MYXX e Giovanna Frene
Maschilità XX [Masculinity XX] is a poetic-photographic project that tells of “masculinity without the man,” the “masculine XX,” the one reinterpreted and lived by women (at least genetically) in its most diverse forms; that of androgynous women, of masculine lesbians (butch), of the theatricality of Drag Kings or of that embodied by F2M trans and the more playful and occasional transvestites.
The projects is developed via a series of photographic portraits in diptych form, each followed by a poetic composition and representing the same person in two versions – a “neutral” one, dressed in jeans and white top and a “masculine” other, wearing and posing in the way one feels they’re expressing themselves in all their “masculinity.” The poems, inspired by the interviews with the subjects, are brief narrations of daily lives and the distinctive interpretations each subject has on the idea of the masculine.
Francesco Paolo Catalano
Storytelling and photographic portraiture are used as vehicles for practices of dressing and identity which are culturally determined. Transvestism, the use of make-up, photographic performance and the culture of couture in cinema, theatre and fashion are utilised to observe and question the illusory rigidity of gender identities and the social stereotypes of binaries such as the one between man/woman.
Tiziana Contino
Contino’s artworks are multimedia projects that employ the use of photography, video, multimedia installations and interactive performances in which the audience is invited to synaesthetically and emotively interact. Deeply influenced by the writings of philosophers such as Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, most of her works are centred around the concepts of “nomadic thinking” and “deterritorialization.”
Being these concepts oriented on the analysis of mankind and the way it cohabitates in the world, Contino, with her practice, finds these concepts as the main foundations to link with the idea of transgenderism. For the artist, being trans is the infinite possibility of transitioning from a gender to another as “moments of identity.” Her research is focused on interactive performance as the study of human behaviour to subvert static habits.
Her latest projects aim to reset the distance and scepticism we find in our daily lives and in the relationship with others; they are interactive performances destined to reactivate the contact and/or thought of them.