Transness

Written By Rachel Hann
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Transgendering-assemblages: Sin Wai Kin’s trans techniques and acts of boybanding
Transgendering-assemblages: Sin Wai Kin’s trans techniques and acts of boybanding
Gender-Assemblages: The Scenographics of Sin Wai Kin</a>
Gender-Assemblages: The Scenographics of Sin Wai Kin
Ada M. Patterson – in conversation with Rachel Hann
Ada M. Patterson – in conversation with Rachel Hann

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Since 2023, I have been undertaking a 2-year study to investigate trans and nonbinary approaches to performance making, as well as the cultural standpoint of 'transness' more generally. My work on trans performance to date spans arguments for 'atmospherics' as nonbinary stage aesthetics and 'gender-assemblages' to analyse the more-than-human practices of gendering. The overall objective of this ongoing enquiry is to platform the vitality of trans and nonbinary experiences in understanding the impact of cisgenderism on artists, audiences, and academics. 

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Transgendering-assemblages: Sin Wai Kin’s trans techniques and acts of boybanding
Articles, Scenographics, Costume, transness, Nonbinary, Open access
Transgendering-assemblages: Sin Wai Kin’s trans techniques and acts of boybanding
Articles, Scenographics, Costume, transness, Nonbinary, Open access

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.

Articles, Scenographics, Costume, transness, Nonbinary, Open access
Gender-Assemblages: The Scenographics of Sin Wai Kin</a>
Articles, Scenographics, transness, Nonbinary, Costume
Gender-Assemblages: The Scenographics of Sin Wai Kin
Articles, Scenographics, transness, Nonbinary, Costume

The concept of gender-assemblage is proposed as a critical framework to identify, critique and negotiate the more-than-human processes of gendering. Sin’s drag draws upon their non-binary identity to speculate renewed discourses, actions and expectations for gendered practices.

Articles, Scenographics, transness, Nonbinary, Costume
Ada M. Patterson – in conversation with Rachel Hann
short form, transness, Open access, Costume, climate crisis, practice research
Ada M. Patterson – in conversation with Rachel Hann
short form, transness, Open access, Costume, climate crisis, practice research

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.

short form, transness, Open access, Costume, climate crisis, practice research
Staging Trans Feelings: tactical atmospherics and cisgenderism in We Dig (2019)
short form, Scenography, Atmospherics, transness, Open access
Staging Trans Feelings: tactical atmospherics and cisgenderism in We Dig (2019)
short form, Scenography, Atmospherics, transness, Open access

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.

short form, Scenography, Atmospherics, transness, Open access

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