Lief Hall + Muyassar Kurdi + Miah Luz + Emilio Rojas
Lief Hall (Berlin) ~ Lecture Performance: 'Mythology, Gender and Cyber-Virtual Identity in Popular Culture Performance' Lief Hall’s lecture/performance will interweave storytelling, video collage, live performance and the artist’s own musical compositions to explore how mythology, science fiction and virtual embodiment affect the creation of gender identity within popular culture. Pulling from Judith Butler’s notion of ‘gender performativity’ and Donna Haraway’s ‘Cyborg Manifesto,’ the lecture will explore how performative space is re-shaped through technology, and the integration of cyber-virtual identities. Looking at the work of contemporary female pop stars such as Lady Gaga, Nicki Minaj, Hatsune Miku and Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, Lief Hall explores how the narratives created in pop music play an important role in the creation of contemporary mythology. liefhall.com https://soundcloud.com/lief-hall ....................................................................................................... Muyassar Kurdi ~ Musical Performance Muyassar Kurdi is a national and international traveling experimental/avant-garde interdisciplinary performance artist and musician. muyassarkurdi.com https://vimeo.com/139133153 https://soundcloud.com/muyassar-kurdi ..................................................................................................... Emilio Rojas ~ Performance Emilio Rojas is a multidisciplinary artist, working primarily in performance. He utilizes his body in a political & critical way, as an instrument to unearth removed traumas, embodied forms of decolonization, migration & poetics of space. Besides his artistic practice, Emilio is also a yoga teacher, community activist and anti-oppression facilitator with Migrant and Queer Youth. He recently moved to Chicago, where he is pursuing an MFA in the performance department at SAIC. His work is represented by Jose de la Fuente in Spain. www.performancero.com ....................................................................................................... Miah Luz ~ Musical Performance Miah Luz makes queer optimistic doom & gloom, composing from the crossroads of the mundane with the sacred and the profane. Piano balladry from the singer/songwriter tradition intersects with processed sounds, manipulated ambient noise, and looped beats chiseled from found objects to create a dark, electric, lo-fi soundscape. http://miahluz.bandcamp.com/