the manifold gender // performance

the manifold gender // 2021

// Performance

// 50', improvised dance, 4 channel sound, sculptural installation, fashion

// collective work with Christi Knak Tschaikowskaja and Isaac Espinoza Hidrobo as part of the "Protogynous Collective"

// shown during "Journey through a body"

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Kunsthalle Düsseldorf // Düsseldorf, Germany

Independently of the individual’s search for identity, the gender question is a social issue, but it is analyzed and answered in society on the basis of prototypes and clichés. As a result, the individual concerned is often disempowered in their attempt to answer their personal gender question.

There is still a yawning gulf between gender freedom and social reality. In a free engagement with the body, personal creativity, and the search for an individually structured gender, a “journey of the individually experienced body” will be presented on the catwalk, and the principles of fashion and design will be interrogated.

The queer—fashion—performance “the manifold gender” displays a variety of unique, pulsating, living bodies. The “skins” they wear reinforce the external idea of the self. The “power of fashion,” the setting of “trends,” and the exemplary, optimal body are explicitly taken up in the

context of a performative investigation. “The manifold gender” shows a collective of individuals, each of whom embodies a universal,

genderfluid, self-empowering being.