Yevonde panel discussion: role-play in the arts

15 Sep 2023 7-8pm

Overview

This discussion is held as part of the public programme for the Gallery’s current exhibition, Yevonde: Life and Colour. Join us as our panel springboards from Yevonde’s powerful construction of female roles in her work, to look at how role-play has been explored throughout historical and contemporary art.

Our panel will be chaired by Chanel Curator for the Collection, Flavia Frigeri, and include panellists Juno Calypso, Ajamu X and Marika Takanishi Knowles. Together, the speakers will un-pick the cultural history surrounding role-play, exploring ideas of otherness, gender and performance, and discuss how contemporary role play can act as a form of activism, inspire alter egos or encourage an idealised or dystopian identity to be realised.

Programmed in collaboration with AWARE (Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions)

The event will include a short introduction by Eléonore Besse, Researcher at AWARE : Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions. She is also a co-curator of Modern Women, a new section which will debut at Frieze Masters in October 2023.
   

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