Trans Genre: Art Exhibit & Vernissage
6:00 PM on Thursday Aug. 30th, 2018
Allsaints Event Space, 10 Blackburn Ave.
6:00 PM on Thursday Aug. 30th, 2018
Allsaints Event Space, 10 Blackburn Ave.
Join us for the opening night viewing party (vernissage) of 'Trans Genre'! Light refreshments will be served. The exhibit will be open to the public from Aug 30th to Sept 6th at allsaints' event space. Please note: Due to heritage building anomalies, attendees who require wheelchair accessibility should contact our team at transyouthresilience@gmail.com to discuss options based on your accommodation requirements.
This exhibit showcases the work of five youths who, over the past year, have developed critical, creative works that reconsider the popular representation of trans* folks and offer dynamic, expansive, and profound understandings of trans* identities and experiences.
In 1991, trans theory pioneer Sandy Stone suggested that the trans body is a genre in and of itself, “a set of embodied texts whose potential for productive disruption of structured
spectra of desire has yet to be explored.”
Trans Genre presents the work of 5 local artists (fin lee, ev, T, Leon, and Rose Clancey) who reflect on the experience of moving through the world in ways that, as described by Stone, “productively disrupt” traditional terms of social and bodily engagement.
When language, books, the internet, and mainstream popular culture fail to provide us with answers, our bodies provide shelter and offer us a space to explore, play, reimagine, negotiate and challenge the external structures that seek to constrain us. Finding solutions within ourselves, art provides us with limitless ways to create the knowledge, ideas, and worlds that we need.
This exhibit showcases the work of five youths who, over the past year, have developed critical, creative works that reconsider the popular representation of trans* folks and offer dynamic, expansive, and profound understandings of trans* identities and experiences.
In 1991, trans theory pioneer Sandy Stone suggested that the trans body is a genre in and of itself, “a set of embodied texts whose potential for productive disruption of structured
spectra of desire has yet to be explored.”
Trans Genre presents the work of 5 local artists (fin lee, ev, T, Leon, and Rose Clancey) who reflect on the experience of moving through the world in ways that, as described by Stone, “productively disrupt” traditional terms of social and bodily engagement.
When language, books, the internet, and mainstream popular culture fail to provide us with answers, our bodies provide shelter and offer us a space to explore, play, reimagine, negotiate and challenge the external structures that seek to constrain us. Finding solutions within ourselves, art provides us with limitless ways to create the knowledge, ideas, and worlds that we need.