Gender can create a sensory experience of tangible and virtual borders, as well as conscious and unconscious ones. These spatial and cultural frontiers are essential points of reference for our own identities. Our limited, and simultaneously real and ephemeral bodies can be stimulated in order to provoke an evolution on, and a transgression of, oppressive social codes.
In the frame of The Sprawls, our work focused on queer strategies as political tools to rebel against gender constrictions and body policing. With an experimental and playful approach, we explored and reclaimed the concepts of gender, sex, and sexuality and establish new personal and social realities. We also addressed the gendered borders of institutionalized knowledge in order to analyze the constructs that can manipulate our understanding of power.
The Sprawls presented the work of artists of various disciplines in the form of talks, intimate performances, live music and audiovisual art with a common focus on the borders of gender and gendered borders. This artistic approach took place at GlogauAir (Glogauer Str. 16, 10999 Berlin) on the 24th and 25th of March 2017.
Take a glimpse here if you missed it:
Blanca Gomila, Animal Prints, 2017
Blanca Gomila, Animal Prints, 2017
Louise Trueheart, matter v matter – a foray, Performance
Louise Trueheart, matter v matter – a foray, Performance
Ileana Pascalau, Fiat Voluptas Tua, 2017
Ileana Pascalau, Fiat Voluptas Tua, 2017
S&M, Moving, Live Music and Reactive Movement Performance
S&M, Moving, Live Music and Reactive Movement Performance
S&M, Moving, Live Music and Reactive Movement Performance
Kiona Hagen Niehaus, Vision, 2016 – 2017
Kiona Hagen Niehaus, Vision, 2016 – 2017
Anaïs Senli, I’m Not Like You, 2016
Angela Kaisers, I, I Will Be King And You, You Will Be Queen #1, 2017
Sura Hertzberg, Naked SURAnade, Naked Live Music Performance
Sura Hertzberg, Naked SURAnade, Naked Live Music Performance
María Amparo Gomar Vidal, Genealogies of Maria, 2017
DREAMaTEAM, ALLE UNTER EINER DECKE – becoming activist, Collective Performance
Harley Aussoleil and Christian Etocke, Pärchen, 1-on-1 Performance
Harley Aussoleil and Christian Etocke, Pärchen, 1-on-1 Performance
Madeleine White, See Somebody, 1-on-1 Performance
Madeleine White, See Somebody, 1-on-1 Performance
Madeleine White, See Somebody, 1-on-1 Performance
Esther Nelke, His Master’s Voice, 2017
Vagittarius Rising, THE DECLARATION OF THE NATION OF VAG, Live Music Performance
Vagittarius Rising, THE DECLARATION OF THE NATION OF VAG, Live Music Performance
Vagittarius Rising, THE DECLARATION OF THE NATION OF VAG, Live Music Performance
Photos by Judy Landkammer
