Cut it Like a Man, York Art Gallery (original) (raw)

Abstract

Trans* Feminist Performance art piece made on International Women's Day 2017 as part of Cast-Off Drama's residency at York Art Gallery for the Flesh exhibition (Oct 2016-2017). See the video on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/805133108 Created and performed by Nina Kane. Artist statement: It was a work about trans experience, menstruation and self-harm working from a painting ‘Samson and Delilah’ (1642) by Pieter Claesz Soutman. It’s called ‘Cut it like a man’. When I first put the video on youtube it sat there for a year and had 139 views. Then some trans-hating bigots in Romania and Hungary came across it, and left lots of comments urging me to kill myself. They also tried to get it taken down by youtube who age-restricted it. Within two days the views had increased to over 22,000. The work itself was part of my emergence as a trans man into the gallery field where I had worked using my naked female body as a laboratory for exploring the conundrums and constructedness of gender for 15 years.

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