Facing_Drag in Popular Cultures and Performing Arts

Drag, a key concept in Gender Studies, has been theorized as a practice of queering, of re-signifying. Against the backdrop of manifold articulations of colonialism and racism, this transdisciplinary conference aims at re-thinking „drag”. It brings together scholars and artists from different parts of the globe to address, to historicize and to contextualize – to face – practices of othering and of mimesis in performing arts and in popular culture.

organized by: Evelyn Annuß, Silke Felber, Julia Ostwald

or online via Zoom-Link
Meeting-ID: 670 3390 9369
Kenncode: 840156

Please note that a registration is not required.

We welcome masking – in this case to protect our guests, i.e. please bring a FFP2 mask and do test yourself before the conference if possible.

Thu, 23 June 5 pm — 8 pm (CET)

5 pm
Introduction
Evelyn Annuß, mdw-Gender Studies

5:15 pm
Keynote: Creolization as Praxis
Zimitri Erasmus (Johannesburg)

6:15 pm
Artist Talk – Beyond Drag
Nora Chipaumire (Cape Town)
Jay Pather (Cape Town)

Drinks

Fri, 24 June 10 am — 6 pm (CET)

10 am
Colonial Legacies
Karin Harrasser (Linz): Jesuit Drag. Shamans as Priests, Priests as Shamans
meLê yamomo (Amsterdam): Sonic Drag

Coffee

12:15 pm
(Counter-)Carnival
Aurelie Godet (Paris): Festive Drag in Context: Historicizing Transvestismin New Orleans from the Eighteenth Century to the Present

Lunch

4 pm
Plantation Afterlives
Elaine Frantz Parsons (Kent State): Masks of Whiteness/ Masks of Blackness: Deadly Race Play in the Reconstruction Era United States
Eric Lott (New York): Blackface from Time to Time

Sat, 25 June 10 am — 3 pm (CET)
10 am:00
Media and Performances
Raz Weiner (London): A Nation Among Nations of Nature: Zionist Blackface in Kibbutz Educational Performances
Katrin Köppert (Bochum): De-Facing Affect: On Digital Blackface

Coffee and Finger Food

1 pm
Nanna Heidenreich (Vienna): Whose Portrait? Fabulations and triangulations in Shirley Clarkes Portrait of Jason (USA 1967)
Julia Ostwald (Vienna): Performing Culture, Gender, Sexuality in European Dance Modernism