Charlie Eikon/Arbitrary Spaces

Ongoing experimental performance iterations

2014-present

 

“If the ground of gender identity is the stylized repetition of acts through time...then the possibilities of gender transformation are to be found in the arbitrary relation between such acts, in the possibility of a different sort of repeating, in the breaking or subversive repetition of that style.” 

Judith Butler

 

Charlie Eikon/Arbitrary Spaces is an ongoing experimental performance that seeks to challenge the private/public performativity of gender protocols by occupying Butler's Arbitrary Spaces. If gender is performance, what is a performance conceptualizing performativity? Using two forms of gender application (make-up and a beard), I'm curious as to when/where the performance truly begins, and ends? And if the answer is the "private", then who are we performing for?

 

More info here. 

Video here.