Gender-Assemblages: The scenographics of Sin Wai Kin

Hann, Rachel (2022) Gender-Assemblages: The scenographics of Sin Wai Kin. In: Analysing Gender in Performance. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 293-310. ISBN 9783030855734, 9783030855741

Text Hann_2022_Gender_Assemblages_The_scenographics_of_Sin_Wai_Kin.pdf - Accepted Version Restricted to Repository staff only until 12 December 2024. Download (634kB) | Request a copy

Abstract

This chapter investigates the artist Sin Wai Kin’s (單 慧 乾) speculative drag through the prism of ‘gender-assemblage’. Combining third wave feminist ideas on gender with new materialist readings of assemblage, the concept of gender-assemblage is proposed as a critical framework to identify, critique and negotiate the more-than-human processes of gendering. Sin’s drag draws upon their non-binary identity to speculate renewed discourses, actions and expectations for gendered practices. The scenographics of Sin’s drag, with reference to the overt use of breast forms and make up, are proposed as irritating the normative gender-assemblages that define the representational identity categories of ‘female’ and ‘male’. In approaching gender as assemblage, Sin’s drag is argued as revealing the assemblages of assemblages that underlines the potential of scenographics to study gender-assemblages more broadly.

Actions (login required)

View Item

Downloads