Residing in the Borderlands

For TAKE VIII of our year-long, monthly film series Residing in the Borderlands, we are delighted to have Vaginal Davis to help us ring in the new year! 

She explains her choice of film as follows: "The lure and lore of musicale Berlina of the late 70s and early 80s, when Bowie, Iggy Pop and Lou Reed made their way through the city is so stylishly referenced in Todd Haynes’s neglected musical fable Velvet Goldmine. A perfect celestial teaser for the dark days of winter."

VAGINAL DAVISis the grande doyenne of intersectional intersexed arts and sciences.  For over a decade she has been curating a performative film event under the auspices of the Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art –first with Rising Stars, Falling Stars and now with Contemporary Vinegar Syndrome. She teaches the seminar / labzone Perverse Assemblages at the HEAD Ecole d’Art et de Design in Geneva (Switzerland) and in 2020 will mount an installation as part of the Gwangju Biennale in South Korea. 

Photo: Patrik Bablo
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Photo: Patrik Bablo
Photo: Patrik Bablo
Photo: Patrik Bablo