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
Universität für darstellende Kunst und Musik
Fanny Hensel Saal
Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1
1030 Vienna
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 |
Welcome Address Introduction Evelyn Annuß, mdw-Gender Studies |
| 5:15 pm |
Keynote: Creolisation, ‘Indigenisation’, Ethno-masquerade Zimitri Erasmus (Johannesburg) |
| 6:15 pm |
Artist Talk – Beyond Drag Nora Chipaumire (New York) 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): When a lover says "I love you", is it the words or is it the sayer that matters? |
| Coffee | |
| 12:15 pm |
(Counter-)Carnival Aurélie Godet (Paris): Festive Drag in Context: Historicizing Transvestism in New Orleans from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Nadia Davids (Cape Town): Creolisation, Cosmopolitanism and Queerness in the District Six Carnival |
| 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 Exoticism in European Dance Modernism: Japonist Entanglements |
