Publications

Transgendering-assemblages: Sin Wai Kin’s trans techniques and acts of boybanding

This article investigates the artist Sin Wai Kin’s (單慧乾) speculative approach to drag through the prism of ‘transgendering-assemblages’. Influenced by the assemblage theory of Manuel DeLanda and Jasbir Puar, I propose that transgendering-assemblages actualize the properties of transness through particular trans techniques.

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Articles, Scenographics, Atmospherics, Open access Rachel Hann Articles, Scenographics, Atmospherics, Open access Rachel Hann

Pluriversal scenographics and staging world feelings: climate crisis in SUPERFLEX’s ‘It Is Not The End Of The World’

How is a feeling of world produced through staged material cultures? This question provides the through-line to my argument for this article. In an era of climate crisis, acts of representation that enact, invite or irritate conceptual models for ‘world feelings’ are increasingly urgent.

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Ada M. Patterson – in conversation with Rachel Hann

Interview with trans artist Ada M. Patterson (b. 1994, Bridgetown) based between Barbados, London and Rotterdam. She works with masquerade, performance, poetry, textiles and video, looking at the ways storytelling can limit, enable, complicate or abolish identity formation.

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Staging Trans Feelings: tactical atmospherics and cisgenderism in We Dig (2019)

To talk about ‘trans performance’ is to talk about performances that enact and investigate trans as a political act of affirmation, self-determination, and the felt affects of cis regulation. This paper is a working statement on the stakes at play in arguing the vitality of trans voices and perspectives for our collective social thriving.

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short form, Scenography, Scenographics, Open access Rachel Hann short form, Scenography, Scenographics, Open access Rachel Hann

Notes on Beyond Scenography

Reflecting on writing Beyond Scenography, this essay in English and Portuguese documents the lecture ‘Scenographic Futures’, presented as part of the session PQ TALKS, at PQ 2019, a position statements called ‘Changing the Question’is presented to reflect if rather than asking what is scenography, now the question is what does scenography do?. How scenography affects, channels, and orientate experiences of stage, place, and world.

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Hellerau Returned

The Festspielhaus Hellerau (1911) is recognized as the first purpose-built “studio “performance space. Scenographer Adolphe Appia and architect Heinrich Tessenow’s architectural legacy is once again an active site of experimentation following a2006 renovation. Moreover, the current artistic residency of William Forsythe’s dance company has continued Appia’s vision for afuture performance practice through an intermedial approach. Importantly, the body, within the work of Forsythe and Appia, remains alocus of artistic convergence as it encompasses the “open “architecture at Hellerau.

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