Cineffable - Art Exhibit

Human nature is that it has no definition but array of possibilities. Childhood, the time of games, disguises. But very quickly you have to choose your place and your role. Be recognisable and clearly identifiable. Elodie Lanotte grew up familiarising herself with the violence of gender norms. She grew up with this symbolic violence that takes the alibi of the natural order. Symbolic violence in the gaze factory that masks the arbitrariness of these representations. She lived in an impossible, illegitimate body. These variable and fluctuating norms. These norms that define human ontology, by making what turns out to be the result of meaning effects, are linked to ideologies that determine it. Opening possibilities, subverting the rigid forms of identity and trying to counter the violence of "duty-being" by a constant effort.

GENDER?

Performance by Laura Slakmon

Sunday at 7:30pm, in screening room

GENDER? is a performance that questions gender. "A woman is a distinguished, gentle and seductive being. A man is strong, valiant and proud". We no longer know where that comes from but we unconsciously pass these words on from generation to generation. The body transmits even when we stay quiet. The gendered posture prints and expresses itself until it becomes an apparently natural automatism while it alienates. Influenced by the burlesque, gaga dance, performances, the work of Claude Cahun and the one of Judith Butler, GENDER? questions the body: do gestures have a gender? How do they inhabit the body? Is gender really important to understand who we are?

October 26 to 29, 2023

2022 Art Exhibit

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