MIT List Visual Arts Center 20 Ames Street, Bldg. E15
Atrium level
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
617-253-4680
Virtuoso Illusion: Cross-Dressing and the New Media Avant-Garde
"... explores what has traditionally been called gender crossing or cross-dressing (drag) as a tactic for media artists that has been central to the development of the current avant-garde. The show explores how experimental art has been invigorated and advanced by artists who cross dress for many different reasons as part of their conceptual process. It is not intended as an exploration of identity issues specifically, but more as an in depth look at current and historical strategies of cross dressing as an art of the irrational, the unexpected."
Through April 4.
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[Text from List website. Graphic from Google image search for "Claude Cahun." Caption: "Claude Cahun (Lucy Renée Mathilde Schwob), French (Nantes, France, 1894 - 1954, Saint Hélier, Jersey.) 'Le Mystère d'Adam (The Mystery of Adam).' 1929. photograph | gelatin silver print.]
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