The Work of Drag - with Olympia Bukkakis

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On December 20, the Kunstraum and the Center for Critical Studies are pleased to host a workshop, guided by drag artist and choreographer Olympia Bukkakis. The workshop will attend to the work that goes into drag and the material conditions of a performative practice that purposely blurs the site of its production, whether that’s the stage aka the factory, gender or the scene. Haunted by the spectre of autonomy, drag like all art, “expels labour and declares a formal freedom from it while being just as subordinated to capital as any other form of social production” (Vishmidt and Stakemeier). The art of Bukkakis, in turn, insists on a formal nonseperability of the right lipstick, Marxism, Hauptstadtkulturfonds, and her friends and collaborators, making her the perfect interlocutor for thinking about art’s surpressed and/or neurotic relationship to theories and politics of labour. Internationalist Drag Union, when?!

Queen of the Heavens and of the Earth, Empress of Despair, and Architect of Your Eternal Suffering, Olympia Bukkakis is a drag queen, choreographer, moderator, and writer living and working in Berlin. Since graduating from the SODA masters at the HZT she has premiered a number of new works including, Gender Euphoria (2019), Work on Progress (2019), Under Pressures (2019), A Touch of the Other (2020), Too Much (2021), and replay (2023). Her practice is situated within, and inspired by, the tensions and intersections between queer nightlife and contemporary dance and performance. www.olympiabukkakis.com
20.12.2023
The Work of Drag - with Olympia Bukkakis

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The Work of Drag - with Olympia Bukkakis

20.12.2320.12.23

Lüneburg, Lower Saxony, Germany

Event: Workshop

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