What's On
April 18 & 19, 2009
My Gender Assignment
presented by mysterious entity
The Gender Project is inspired by the sociological assumptions and everyday performance that is gender. Considered by many to be biological destiny, in this work we will approach gender not as a fact but as a question, a threshold for telling stories about who we are and who we are becoming. The main way in which we are approaching this work is to stop thinking of the idea that there are only two genders - male and female. We are working with the concept that there can be a “third” gender, or that gender could be looked at on a continuum, where a biological female may have more “masculine” traits than a biological male, or vice versa. When we place ourselves on the continuum, we may find that no one is really at the far end of the spectrum. Performers, Kate Story, anya gwynne, and David Bateman will perform and play across gender.
The initial stage for development of this project has been a “Gender
Café” whereby people meet and discuss issues around gender.
Stories arising out of the Gender Cafés have provided our raw
materials, our core images and powerful childhood memories of encountering
gender for the first time.