Imagine ne pas pouvoir fuir, performance continue de la tolérance et de laa raison

Tom Grbic – Imagine ne pas pouvoir fuir, performance continue de la tolérance et de laa raison

Imagine not being able to run away is a continuous performance lasting the whole day. It aims to show the principle of ‘trans work’ theorised by Josephine Gilles Harris in 2019. 

J. G. Harris highlights, among other things, the fact that queer people need to maintain a constant performative state in order to be able to navigate the world in an ‘understandable’ way. 

With an activation of texts by Laurène Marx, Tom Grbic, Josephine Gilles Harris and Adel Tincelin, it is also an effort to inscribe ourselves in a lineage, a critical and welcoming queer History.

Diploma project (2024) by Tom Grbic

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