Event
Wild Lion: Solo Performance by Jacob Antony (AUS)
29 Mar 2019
Regular hours
- Friday
- 14:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
Free.
SomoS Art House Berlin invites you to a solo performance of 'Wild Lion' by Brisbane-based artist Jacob Antony.
About
Wild Lion is an emotional and sensual exploration confronting ideas of gender and sexuality.
SomoS Arts Berlin is proud to present “Wild Lion,” a one-off solo performance by Brisbane-based Australian queer artist Jacob Antony, a SomoS Artist-in-Residence, early 2019.
The performance’s title ”Wild Lion” suggests fierceness, courage and power, attributes that are an integral part of queer existence, coming forth naturally from an “other” life, not marked by thoughtless assumptions, and often under pressures that demand much strength.
Set in an intimate environment, candlelight providing a sense of intimacy and security, “Wild Lion” will explore and confront ideas of gender and sexuality in an explosive visual spectacle. During the performance, a skeptical confrontation of emotional ideology and personal turmoil will enfold.
Jacob Antony’s practice applies an artistic process of gendering and un-gendering that focuses on fluidity, rather than rigid duality. Antony’s own body is often used as subject and material, through a conceptual approach of “peeling away body identity and neutralizing it.” Applying motifs from erotic and traditionally gendered clothing, Antony creates and celebrates fluid expressions of gender symbols and sexual desires.
About Jacob Antony:
Jacob Antony is a queer artist from Brisbane, Australia; whose work evokes the themes of gender and identity politics, incorporating an explorative sensability to art-making, in both digital and analog forms. Antony makes use of techniques such as installation, photography, multimedia imagery and text, testing a material’s formal qualities and possibilities while challenging social and gender norms.
Antony holds a BFA (Visual Arts) from Queensland University of Technology, Australia. He has taken part in the group exhibitions “Vibrant Laneways” at King George Square Underground Gallery, Nov 2016 – Jan 2017, “#PRIZENOPRIZE,” The Walls Arts Space Gold Coast, 2016, and “Now What?” (BFA Graduate Exhibition) at Creative Industries Precinct, 2016.
Friday, March 29th, 2019
Doors will open 6.30pm for a 7pm start, concluding at 9pm
