Ritual Effects, explores everyday constructions of identity and gender through the disruption and questioning of visual references and intuitive cultural assumptions from everyday Jewish life. Additionally, the exhibit functions as a museum, where the objects are both actions and performances revolving around post-gendered Jewish space, and question the concept of group identity within the museum/exhibition space.
Central to this work is my drag performance. My performances go between ‘male’ and ‘female’; looking at how shifts across binary concepts of gender encompass both one identity and multiple identities within the same body, simply by being in-between the boundaries.
Since gender is not absolute, the interpretation of the gendered body is always in flux. Moving between and in-between a multiplicity of genders within the same body becomes a place for exploration. The body becomes the subject, a performance of multiple identities, a way of navigating different geographies.
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