Vulva's School: A F*cking Didactic Take on Experimental feminist Performance Art, or, How to Read
lecture performance and video piece, 2018/2020
VULVA’S SCHOOL: A FUCKING DIDACTIC TAKE ON EXPERIMENTAL FEMINIST PERFORMANCE ART, OR, HOW TO READ is a performative lecture that thinks about (and through) Carolee Schneemann, Hito Steyerl, Judy Chicago, Jack Halberstam, Gordon Hall, Lisa Robertson, Gertrude Stein, Maya Deren, Sianne Ngai, and Eve Sedgwick. It’s also a piece about teachers of reading, about alternative forms of learning and relating, about abstraction and autobiography, about pinched nerves, about visibility, about vulnerability in institutions, about detours, about getting lost, but also about professional slickness, and as always (always) about serious copying and necessary (even relentless) repetition.
Performed:
JNU, New Delhi, India (Jan 2020)
Florens Cargo, Darmstadt, Germany (Aug 2019)
University of Cambridge (Nov 2018)
Photos:
Laura Cobb, Nathalie Bohländer, Ayla Hübner, 2019
Video:
Commissioned by Sarah Hayden and Queer Art Projects, for WIP, digital exhibition, 15/20/20-15/01/21, funded by Arts Council England. Curatorial note here (click bottom left icon) and artist statement ‘Reading-in-Progress’ here.
Press:
e-flux (2020)
Kunstforum International (2020)
Bagri Foundation (2020).
Berlinale Shorts (2020).