Feb 20, 1:30 PM: Counter Cinema/Counter Media Project: Zackary Drucker reading group

Following Zackary Drucker's performance at the MCA on Wednesday, Feb. 18, we will be following up with a reading group about her work, and trans theory and media. We will discuss the readings attached: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/foak1ubjlcxmv7u/AACQB84qVW0sm1bZzrqtLiEGa?dl=0 See below for a short description of each reading. Articles: Doran George, "Negotiating the Spectacle in Transgender Performances of Alexis Arquette, Zackary Drucker, DavEnd, niv Acosta, and Tobaron Waxman" This article helps us to understand how Drucker's use of her own body explores and challenges the conventional spectacularization of the trans body (perhaps especially the trans feminine body) in media, visual culture, and society in general 2014 Whitney Biennial Catalog The photos and discussions of She Gone Rogue and Relationship provide an overview of some of the works that we'll be exploring leading up to, and during, Drucker's visit. These short pieces read Drucker and Ernst's work through gender studies, autobiography, and art history Zackary Drucker's "Bring Your Own Body: The Story of Lynn Harris" This text for a performance based on the archives of intersex pioneer Lynn Harris exemplifies Drucker's interest in rooting her art practice in history, something that is particularly present in She Gone Rogue (Drucker's more recent project along these lines has been establishing an archive of the records of Flawless Sabrina, who appears in She Gone Rogue: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/flawless-sabrina/flawless-sabrina-archive) J. Jack Halberstam's "The Transgender Look" Halberstam builds on classical theories of the cinematic gaze to argue for the emergence of a transgender look or gaze in recent films, focusing primarily on more mainstream productions like The Crying Game and Boys Don't Cry, but finding the best exemplar of the transgender look in the more independent production By Hook or by Crook Presented by the Counter Cinema/Counter Media Project

Date: February 20, 2015
Time: 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

See:https://www.dropbox.com/sh/foak1ubjlcxmv7u/AACQB84qVW0sm1bZzrqtLiEGa?dl=0