Join an evening of drag king performances by El Maricón, Miki Moskito, Sarah Tasha Hauber, and Karl Klit, and the launch of Katrina Daschner’s newest publication BURN & GLOOM! GLOW & MOON! within the space of the current exhibition Darker, Lighter, Puffy, Flat.
Bringing together various generations of queer artists and performativity, the launch will feature a discussion with the artist Katrina Daschner, curator Övül Ö. Durmuşoğlu, writer and contributor to the book Amelia Groom, one of the performers, and curator Laura Amann moderated by Nicole Suzuki. The artists present will showcase their drag personas, ranging from kinky cowboy aesthetic to TikTok and pop-cultural references. Feel free to come in drag!
Free admission.
The discussion will be held in English.
The publication is available for € 19 on site.
You are welcome to stay for drinks and music afterward.
BURN & GLOOM! GLOW & MOON!, co-published with Sternberg Press, transfers the immersive environment of senses, textures, and feelings of present in Daschner’s same titled solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Wien into book form, and touches upon the transforming of “femme”-ness, bodies, and genders.
Darker, Lighter, Puffy, Flat is an exhibition that explores the manyfold meanings and readings of breasts in our histories and cultures. It questions why breasts and activities surrounding them still cause so much uproar, how our gaze upon them has changed throughout art history and how popular and radical queer feminist discourses mutually influence each other.
The desperate search is finally over, because here she is, the Klit, Mr Klit, Karl Klit (all/yolo), and it only exists for pleasure. Should you like what you finally found, this Klit is always findable at BroHomo.
Miki Moskito (he/him) is a drag artist from the Vienna underground scene. He explores and parodizes stereotypes of gender, in particular machismo. His performative point of access fluidly morphs traditional drag and lip-sync with striptease, pantomime and a clownesque attitude.
El Maricón (he/they) is a drag artist and performer based in Vienna, Austria. They are neither a king nor a queen, but a secret, third thing. A mixed Peruvian clown sent from heaven (or hell?) to wreak some havoc amongst Austrian fragility. They’re a maker of and birth-giver to words, worlds and creatures, always dissecting binary frameworks of being. Serving emotional whirlwinds, legs for days and bingeworthy drama, they’ll have you fall in love with the blink of an eyelash and leave you gagging for weeks after. Come eat hijitxs.
Sarah Tasha (she/they) works in between the fields of performance, photography, video, and social media on political and social issues as well as gender & queerness. Her practice as a performance artist is critical and humorous, with elements of drag and pop culture. They work both live and online in digital spaces where they blur the lines between performance art, socio-political satire and social media content. They are a part of the Vienna Based queer-feminist art collective ContextCocktail and the Berlin based intersectional feminist platform YEOJA Mag.