Centre of Somewhere: South Africa Focus
GOLDENDEAN
(South Africa)
BREATHE
SAT 21 OCTOBER 2023 13:00 - 14:00
Tramway (Directions)
Content note: The performance work Breathe is interactive, requires, engagement or some audience participation. There will be nudity and symbolic references to transphobia. 16+.
ACCESS: AD (Festival Access Page).
Informal audio description is available, request a describer to accompany you into the performance from the Tramway welcome desk. You can also listen to an audio description introduction embedded here or download the file to your own device via this link. Sighted guides will be stationed throughout the building on Saturday 21st and can assist with navigating the building and accessing audio description and touch tours.
Goldendean invites you to a tender moment with a “soft radical” – to catch breath, bubbles and feelings. To be tender, to take space, be vulnerable and risk visibility. As a “Fat Queer White Trans body” in the context of South Africa, artist Dean Hutton questions who or what is entitled to take up space. In doing so, they address the personal and political of hypervisibility: being visible (as a fat, queer, white, trans body) and invisible, unimportant at the same time (as a fat, queer, white, trans body).
Check out Goldendean’s inflatable sculptures presented across Glasgow during the Festival:
The golden inflatable Soft Vxnxs will be presented in Princes Square on 13th- 14th & 27th-28th October.
The Big Fat Light Merqueer inflatable installation will be presented during the Festival.
Dean Hutton is a genderqueer trans media artist provoking dialogue about the gaze, queer bodies, love and social justice. Their strategy of simple and often improvised, disruptive actions by a “Fat Queer White Trans body” share moments of soft courage to affirm the right of all bodies to exist, to be celebrated and protected. Their extensive studio practice, as a photographer and a visual artist producing works on paper, digital video and sculptural objects, bridge intersecting genres of documentary, fiction and fantasy to produce radical queer counter narratives. Gender neutral pronouns: They/ Them
Presentation Credits: Dean Hutton/ Goldendean.
Production credits: Breathe Goldendean was originally commissioned by the Institute for Creative Arts, University of Cape Town.
Photos: Image 1: Video still by Walter Bickmann/ Tanzforum Berlin. Image 2-4 by Dasha Zorkina
Goldendean is presented as part of the Centre of Somewhere South Africa focus, funded by the British Council International Collaboration programme.
