My Body is a Queer Academy
(2022)
Followd by My Body is a Queer History Museum and My Body is a Queer Library, My Body is a Queer Academy is conceived for and in working with Helsinki University of Arts’s Live Art and Performance Studies (LAPS) master program, as a workshop-based performance proposal.
My Body is a Queer Academy is a workshop about ‘workshopping’, inviting the artists at LAPS to ‘queer’ the body of academic production and training of their ‘master program.’ They investigate what makes art schools and artist-run schools, reimagine and invent an alternative curriculum for LAPS, proposing ways of learning, embodying cultural politics, and process-orientated knowledge production.
The new/alternative/performative curriculum developed through a 5-day workshop includes:
Negative Space by Tina Jeranko
Whispering Histories by Ladapha Sophonkunkit
Orient-action by Onur Tayranoğlu
Aerobic Reading by Stefanía Ólafsdóttir
Economic translation by Sooyoung Park
Post-translating by Yun-Chen Chang
As a ‘process-oriented production’, workshopping is participatory performance as the process of workshopping knowleage.
My Body is a Queer Academy is a workshop about ‘workshopping’, inviting the artists at LAPS to ‘queer’ the body of academic production and training of their ‘master program.’ They investigate what makes art schools and artist-run schools, reimagine and invent an alternative curriculum for LAPS, proposing ways of learning, embodying cultural politics, and process-orientated knowledge production.
The new/alternative/performative curriculum developed through a 5-day workshop includes:
Negative Space by Tina Jeranko
Whispering Histories by Ladapha Sophonkunkit
Orient-action by Onur Tayranoğlu
Aerobic Reading by Stefanía Ólafsdóttir
Economic translation by Sooyoung Park
Post-translating by Yun-Chen Chang
As a ‘process-oriented production’, workshopping is participatory performance as the process of workshopping knowleage.
Concep: River Lin
Artistic collaboration and performance: Yun-Chen Chang, Ladapha Sophonkunkit, Sooyoung Park, Stefanía Ólafsdóttir, Tina Jeranko, Onur Tayranoğlu
With the Live Art and Performance Studies (LAPS), Helsinki University of Arts.
12 November, 2022
15:00-16:00
Artistic collaboration and performance: Yun-Chen Chang, Ladapha Sophonkunkit, Sooyoung Park, Stefanía Ólafsdóttir, Tina Jeranko, Onur Tayranoğlu
With the Live Art and Performance Studies (LAPS), Helsinki University of Arts.
12 November, 2022
15:00-16:00
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photo: Antti Ahonen
Choreography
My body is a public collection
(2023)My body is a queer library
(2022)My body is a queer history museum
(2019/2022)Dancing with Gutai art manifesto 1956
(2020)My body is a queer academy
(2022)20 Minutes for the 20th Century, but Asian
(2016)Transgender Exercise
(2022)![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2594e52a3a61091c05e1fd4a0fd9c0943780e8150d8ab300cfafc764e320680f/IMG_5203.jpg)
Art History on Escalators
(2021)![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7e8067c4e67aacbfc88554f1aa46f1dc9dcc579b644edcce29d7a9d5c059580f/Screen-Shot-2021-06-19-at-9.00.07-AM.png)
Is this Gutai?
(2021)
Fw: Wall-floor-window Positions
(2020)![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8b8551a2a001b36dd55b510aec4365deb994aec68e3f18c6e5532060701050ce/Screen-Shot-2020-08-26-at-00.35.25.png)
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River Walk
(2014)Installation / mixed media
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Sleeping Series
(2019-ongoing)Live action / happening
Je suis Le Monde
(2018)
other pieces
(2015-2018)![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6a8e635b03487a333c8d709a85ce43f4f4e713e984d3b7c6e9581273f77f91bf/-2019-09-12-3.46.11.png)