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Gender is a Drag, 1993

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My first public performance, Gender is a Drag (1993) was performed at the Allen Library window spaces at University of Western Sydney, Kingswood campus, on 25 November 1993. This was at the end of my first year as a visual arts and art history student at UWS. The work was made up of a live performance and a VHS video depicting myself seated in an antique chair, experiencing a gender transformation marked by make-up, hair-dye and a Pet Shop Boys song.

While this video looped, I performed the companion piece in the neighbouring window by cutting off my long hair in a butch gender reversal. A reference to Frida Kahlo’s painting Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair (1940) was made explicit when I wrote on the window in lipstick: “Look, if I used to love you, it was because of your hair; now that you’re shorn I don’t love you anymore”.

In 2013, two decades later, I re-performed Gender is a Drag at Alaska Projects in Kings Cross: vimeo.com/118458257

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