Gastvortrag der Drag Queen, Choreografin und Autorin Olympia Bukkakis am 10.12.2024 an der HBK
(Performance-)Vorlesung und Workshop (englisch)
10. Dezember 2024, 16:00 Uhr
HBK Braunschweig, Geb. 21 / Raum 007 (Hörsaal)
Johannes-Selenka-Platz 1, 38118 Braunschweig
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Anhand von zwei kürzlich in Berlin aufgeführten Stücken wird Olympia die Möglichkeiten, Grenzen und Freuden der Camp-Ästhetik skizzieren.
Topic of the (performance) lecture and workshop
Excess and exaggeration tend to make the middle class uncomfortable. At the same time aesthetics and attitudes that lean into the fantastic, the overdone, the outrageous, are key to the cultural production and understanding of a number of different minoritised groups. Camp and melodrama have a long and contested history in queer and trans communities and art. With reference to two pieces recently performed in Berlin (Bad Girls from Oozing Gloop & Anali Goldberg and Melodrama Suits Her by Tumay Kilincel) Olympia will outline the potentials, limitations and joys of camp aesthetics. The format will be part (performance) lecture and part workshop, with exercises to help the students gain a practical understanding of camp production
Introducing Olympia Bukkakis
Queen of the Heavens and of the Earth, Empress of Despair, and Architect of Your Eternal Suffering, Olympia Bukkakis is a drag queen, choreographer, moderator, and writer living and working in Berlin. She has organised, curated, and moderated various queer performance nights including Get Fucked, Apocalypse Tonight and Queens Against Borders. In 2017 she began to perform in contemporary dance and performance contexts, collaborating with Jeremy Wade. In 2019 she completed a Masters in Solo Dance Authorship at the Inter-University Centre for Dance (HZT) in Berlin with her graduation piece Tales From a State of Shemergency. Since then, she has premiered a number of new works including, Gender Euphoria (2019), Work on Progress (2019), Under Pressures (2019), A Touch of the Other (2020), Too Much (2021), Boys Night Out (2023), and replay (2023). She is inspired by tensions and intersections between queer nightlife and contemporary dance and performance.
Die Einladenden
Der Vortrag finden auf Einladung von Prof. Vika Kirchenbauer statt. Die Veranstaltung ist unterstützt durch das Braunschweiger Zentrum für Gender Studies (BZG) und das Institut für FREIE KUNST.