Like a Girl's Name: The Adolescent Drag of Amber Hawk Swanson, Kate Gilmore, and Ann Liv Young
TDR: The Drama Review, Spring 2012, v. 56, no. 1, pp. 48-76
Article abstract: "What if the future of feminist art lay not in images of self-mastery, dignity, and maturity but rather in performances of teen regression? Adolescent drag designates a performance of irony, awkwardness, and equivocality that expands the identificatory repertoire available to a generation of women are said to have inherited from Western feminism."
The author theorizes about the project of "autogenesis" in the "adolescent drag" performance and video works of Amber Hawk Swanson, Ann Liv Young and Katie Gilmore, finding in their respective practices awkward humour, parody, biting social and self critique, and a new model for feminists to "give birth to the self."
ITEM 2012.027 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
The Feminism? Project – Amber Hawk Swanson
To Have and To Hold and To Violate – Amber Hawk Swanson
Walk This Way – Kate Gilmore
Standing Here – Kate Gilmore
Walk the Walk – Kate Gilmore
Cinderella – Ann Liv Young
Melissa is a Bitch – Ann Liv Young
Snow White – Ann Liv Young
Brave New Girl – Neal Medlyn