Performance

  • Change audio to satirical song
  • Performer lip-syncing to the song
  • Audio and footage of gym work out.

Performance Audio:

Songs for Drag Race: http://www.timeout.com/newyork/blog/drag-queen-video-playlist-8-headphone-worthy-songs-from-rupauls-drag-race-graduates

The Vagina Song by Willam Belli: https://youtu.be/hE18CGmtXqM

Lyrics: http://www.songtexte.com/songtext/willam/the-vagina-song-2b58b4de.html

Performance Speech and Video

Using footage from Paris Is Burning I stitched together the audio for my Summer Exhibition piece which will be performed by my male model in drag.

“I would like to be a spoiled, rich, white girl. They get what they want, whenever they want it. And they don’t have to really struggle with finances and nice things, nice clothes… And they don’t have to have that as a problem. I don’t feel that there’s anything mannish about me, except maybe what I might have between me, down there. Which is my little personal thing, so… I guess that’s why I want my sex change – to make myself complete.

I used to hustle in New York to make my money. I was with a guy and he was playing with my titties till he touched me down there. He felt it and he seen it and he, like, totally flipped out. He said, “You fucking faggot! You’re a freak! You’re a victim of AIDS and you’re trying to give me AIDS. What, are you crazy? You’re a homo! I should kill you!” You know, stuff like that. And, like, I was really terrified, so I just jumped out the window. I grabbed my bag and just jumped out the window.

But see, now I don’t like to hustle anymore. And I’m afraid of what’s going on – the AIDS – and I don’t want to catch it. Like, later on this evening, l’m supposed to meet someone. A friend of mine. A very good, old friend of mine. He’s a young, very good, attractive, handsome young man. And he’s taking me out to dinner later on this evening, or for cocktails after midnight.  I know he’ll give me some money, just for me to maybe buy a pair of shoes and a nice dress, so that the next time he sees me, he’ll see me looking more and more beautiful, the way he wants to see me. But I don’t have to go to bed with him or anything like that.
At times, they do expect sexual favors, but that is between myself and them. But, at most times, But I feel, like… If you’re married… A woman in the suburbs, a regular woman, is married to her husband and she wants him to buy her a washer and dryer set. In order for him to buy that, I’m sure she’d have to go to bed with him anyway, to give him what he wants, for her to get what she wants. So in the long run, it all ends up the same way.”
After watching Bullhead I decided that the best way to capture Hyper Masculinity for this performance is to film my model at the gym and create a Scratch Video from the footage collected.

VIVA Presentation Performance and Feedback

I had a lot of technical difficulties after exporting from Keynote (Mac) to Powerpoint (Windows). I had to set import all the audio and video files, one of which would not work in Powerpoint so I had to have my volunteer exit the presentation to play the video. Overall I think this presentation performance went well and I will definitely be taking into considering the use of information on top of what I present, as suggested up John Russell.