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M:ST 3
COSTUME BASED PERFORMANCE ART AND THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION
Panel Moderator: David Bateman (Kamloops)
Panelists: Mara Verna (Montreal) and Camille Turner (Toronto)
Dates and Venue: October 8, 2005, 2 pm
University of Calgary, Rozsa Centre
Presented by: M:ST
Nature of Event: Panel discussion, Performance Series
Within performative practices the body is the site of cultural experimentation and expression where ideologies and critiques are enacted. As part of this enactment, costume based performance artists utilize the theatricality of costumes and prostheses to engage with political subjects. In these performances, the politics of representation are examined and laid bare as sites of social experimentation. From the explorations of Queer identity enacted by the Drag Queen genre, to the “biotechnological” prosthetic manipulations, costume based performance has taken on a unique potential for critical engagement. As part of this year’s M:ST 3 Festival a number of performers use the medium of costume based performance as a means for critical dialogue. This panel will examine the possibilities that costume based performative practices offers as a means of political critique and representation.
Moderator Bio
David Bateman was born and raised in Peterborugh Ontario. He is still in recovery. He received his PhD in English and Creative Writing at the University of Calgary and is presently writer-in-residence at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops. He has taught drama and english at Trent University (Peterborugh) and the University of Calgary; and Creative Writing and Queer Theory at Emily Carr Institute for Art & Design (Vancouver). As a Toronto-based performance artist he has divided his time between Ontario and Alberta since 1998. His most recent work, Lotus Blossom Special; Metamorphosis & Misidentification in Madama Butterfly, will be mounted at Mutton Busting in Calgary in January of 2006 and was premiered at Western Front (Vancouver) in November of 2004.
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