Mezzista - a triptych of performance works streamed live online (original) (raw)

Abstract

https://www.facebook.com/953345334746416/posts/3853758781371709/?d=n Saturday 6th March 2021 –‘Duchess’ – a tableau vivante – from 1pm, Cast-Off Drama Youtube Channel. Sunday 7th March 2021 – ‘Letters to my M.P. / Portraits of an 80s Boyhood’ – a tableau vivante, from 1pm, Cast-Off Drama Youtube Channel. Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th March, ‘Sonnets to a Small Room/Stray Pup’ – a weekend durational, 1-4pm each day, Cast-Off Drama Youtube Channel. For more info, contact us - castoffdrama@outlook.com Links will be uploaded later. Mezzista – an old word used to describe a male opera singer whose voice can sing the Mezzo-Soprano part traditionally ascribed to female singers. It was frequently applied to castrati and defines a higher range sung by many counter-tenors today. Comprising two short ‘tableaux vivantes’ and a weekend ‘durational’, the work extends my passion for the gender binary and my concern to trace the voices (physical and political) of transgender people like myself across cultures and histories. In the last 20 years, through Cast-Off Drama, I have grappled with the conundrum of being a transgender gay man living with a female body, and pursued a quest to build and define a trans* morphology of art. Mezzista explores my response to months of lockdown and to ‘pandemic preoccupations’ with cleaning, screening, waiting, passing time, losing time, grief, loss of touch, creating space, masking up, neighbour noise, nature walks and the retreat into interior worlds of social networking, fetish communities, 80s pop nostalgia, zoom drag shows, political activism, haptic intimacy and filling every inch of wallspace with art that ‘takes me away’. For many trans people, lockdown has meant being forced back into living with our assigned gender, and as such, Mezzista asserts the tension of this position, whilst drawing on the power and playfulness of the transgender voice as it moves provactively and promiscuously between scenes and screens.

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