Self-Creation explores a nuanced area in the artform of drag and the idea of gender presentation through the specific medium of DIY and low budget, self-produced music videos. Audiences are invited to reconsider the popular imagination of drag as binary – men cross-dressing as women – and used exclusively as a tool for subversion; to instead open up reflections about what this medium can offer contemporary understandings of gender, sexual identity, community care building, individual identity, and self-creation. Artists: CHRISTEENE, Vaginal Davis, The Huxleys, Max Lawrence, and Dyan Tai.
CHRISTEENE, T.S.S.P, ft Hotnuts and Stephen Fisherman (film still), 2019. Directed by PJ Raval. Courtesy the artist and Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria
Warrnambool Art Gallery
26 November 2022 to 5 March 2023
Victoria
