Paper Piece: Secrets
Brandon LaBelle
Paper Piece: Secrets is a performance for and with the whole audience, using paper, text, secrets, being in the crowd
Paper Piece: Secrets is a performance for and with the whole audience, using paper, text, secrets, being in the crowd
In rethinking the body, the law, the state, gender, race, violence, care and empathy, how we might give humanness a different future?
A discussion about what is at stake in the performance of realness and the practice of passing, and how they are both acts of survival and resistance.
A socio-poetic reading on wayward communities – The wayward create upheavals, incite tumult. They come and go as they please; they are fugitive; they are in open rebellion against society.
A 3-day exploration – through performance, screenings and discussion – of the art and politics of wayward communities who refuse to be bound by the fictions of race and sex.
The mutability of the body and the mobility of identity: queered pop culture, drag, lip-sync and performance.
A historical narrative of the black and latino/a transgender, bisexual, lesbian, and gay House and Ballroom Scene in relation to its artistic practices.
The role of feelings in public life, (political) depression and creative survival.
A meditation on how all of us perform — sometimes reinforcing, sometimes subverting — the shifting categories of gender, sexuality and race.
The mutability of the body and the mobility of identity: queered pop culture, drag, lip-sync and performance.