
Brice Dellsperger
On Gender Performance
Floating Opera Press
Published in October 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
64 pages
978-3-9819108-2-7 (ISBN)
Description
Brice Dellsperger pushes the boundaries of genre and gender. In his multifaceted reprises of iconic film sequences-all assembled under the title Body Double-the cineaste and artist reenacts the selected scenes from well-known films frame for frame and lets his "body doubles" perform all of the roles, be they male or female. In this conversation between Dellsperger and Marie-France Rafael, following current (post-)gender discussions, the artist describes sexuality and (sexual) identity as products of a cultural construction informed by audiovisual technologies. Film, video, and the Internet do not depict a pre-existing sexuality but establish an image of it and its (normative) framework. Throughout this exchange, the artist highlights how he, starting from travesty and doubles, undermines existing identity systems in order to develop new artistic strategies for subjectivity.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Germany
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
20 b&w illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 17 cm
Width: 11 cm
ISBN-13
978-3-9819108-2-7 (9783981910827)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Author
Marie-France Rafael is a tenure-track professor in the Department of Fine Arts at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). Her most recent book publications include Reisen im Imaginativ: Ku¨nstlerische Situationen und Displays (Travel in the Imaginary: Artistic Situations and Displays, 2017) and Ari Benjamin Meyers: Music on Display (2016).