Exploring the layers of meaning ascribed to any performative act, series of gestures, clothing and other 'coded' associations - and the possible results when conflicting, even opposed, semiotic systems collide in the same space. This started life as an idea for a live drag show routine, and has been elaborated for a domestic setting.
Charting a PhD research course which explores the aesthetics of Self and Other, through a non-binary and ambiguous lens. Performance, comics, video and other media engage with reactions to anti-orthodox imagery and identity. Sex, art and being collide here to challenge and critique the persistence of 'normativity' through transgression, subversion, satire and more.
Caveat!
This research page contains material of an explicit and adult nature.
Project title: "Towards an Ontology of Gendered Aesthetics: Surveying Topologies of Self and Other in Performance, Society and Media", Application Number: UOD-DJCAD-2022-0250, signed off and approved by DJCAD School Research Ethics Committee on 5th January 2022.
Layer upon Layer...
Playfulness exploring a serious mode of presentation/assumption on the part of the viewer with performer (dressed, and initially acting consistent with being) as a dominatrix which then becomes evident that I am "only playing" in that mode cf. Sartre/Laing.
Thereby we have layers on top of layers which then peel themselves away to expose new layers underneath, and the collision of multiple opposing personae materialized in the same physical form - a reflection of the non binary and trans person, who must deal with being in-betweenness, and duality. But also: which of the layers that we see is the 'real' or 'true' one? Are any of them?
The aim is therefore to play with semiotics and signs - to encourage belief in one 'type' or 'form', and then subvert that with revelation of another, opposing character or type (cf. the underlying 'masculine' biological body upon which is draped the signifiers of a certain type of 'femininity', which then devolves to another - opposite - 'type' of femininity (in the way that the male body has mapped upon it signifiers of the 'opposing' gender, thereby creating a 'third gender' which presents as neither).
So the old 1+1=3 equation of the hermaphrodite/ambiguous form created from juxtaposing the other 2.
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