Event overview
As part of the Visual Cultures Guest Lecture Series, Lazlo Pearlman, a creator, performer, director and teacher will deliver a lecture entitled "Performing the Explicit Queer Body".
Utilizing examples of my own work and that of some of my performing contemporaries in Western Europe and North America, this lecture looks at the use and effectiveness of nudity and explicit sexual content in current Queer performance work. The naked and explicit body onstage is a powerful performance tool. It has enormous potential as a disruptive force, challenging, among other things, normative notions of gender and sexual identities, sexualities, and the gendered gaze. This lecture looks at several artists whose work utilizes this disruptive strategy; through text, video, and still imagery.
LAZLO PEARLMAN
A creator, performer, director and teacher whose work is often but not always based in his FTM transgendered experience. He has been making performances since he was a 10-year-old girl, starting with a love of musicals and film noir and making his way through (and returning to) many forms including physical theatre, performance art, installations, cabaret, burlesque, vaudeville, fetish, camp/parody, film/video and even the occasional piece of "straight" theatre. Lazlo holds a Master’s degree in Physical Theatre, has created four solo shows, dozens of short solo works, as well as collaborating with and directing many other performing artists. He has given performances, lectures and workshops throughout Western Europe and North America. Recently he was a featured artist and speaker at the International Performance Art Festival in Copenhagen as part of "Visions of Excess," and his latest solo show "The Ballad of JohnJenny Tiresias - A Mythological Jazz-Cabaret Mob Story" premiered this October the Hysteria Festival at Buddies in Bad Times theatre in Toronto, Canada.
Dates & times
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10 Dec 2009 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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