Bring Your Own Body

Juliana Huxtable @ The Cooper Union, Oct 29

27 October 2015

Poet, artist and DJ, Juliana Huxtable will present a public reading to accompany the ongoing exhibition Bring Your Own Body at The Cooper Union, on October 29.

The show explores the relationship between transgender artists, archives and identity. As one of the participating artists, Juliana Huxtable will bring her mixture of self-portraiture, text, performance, nightlife, music and poetry to the reading.

See the The Cooper Union for details.**

Header image: Juliana Huxtable photo by Petra Collins.

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Bring Your Own Body @ The Cooper Union, Oct 13 – Nov 14

13 October 2015

The Bring Your Own Body group exhibition is on at New York’s The Cooper Union, running  from October 13 to November 14.

Organised by Jeanne Vaccaro and Stamatina Gregory, the show presents a range of work across paint, sculpture, textiles, film, digital collage and performance exploring “new historical genealogies” among transgender artists and archives.

As the press release states, Bring Your Own Body takes its title from an unpublished manuscript by intersex pioneer Lynn Harris and proposes “transgender as a set of aesthetics made manifest through multiple forms.” 

Past and presents artists involved include Mark Aguhar, Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz, Vaginal DavisJuliana Huxtable, Pierre Molinier, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, the Museum of Transgender Hirstory and Art and more.

See the Cooper Union website for details.**

Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz, 'Opaque' (2014) 16mm film on HD video, 10 min. Courtesy Ellen de Bruijne Projects.
Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz, ‘Opaque’ (2014) 16mm film on HD video, 10 min. Courtesy Ellen de Bruijne Projects.

Header image: Zackary Drucker, ‘Southern for Pussy’ (2015). Film still. Courtesy of the artist.

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