KRISSY HARRIS
they | them
performer | choreographer | educator
Responsive Wild:
Rediscovering, Redefining, and Realigning
Zoso
Why do I love rock and roll?
Why am I so excited about Led Zeppelin?
Identity
personal history
legacy
agency
What gender stereotypes of femininity were constructed?
What were the women embodying?
Analysis of the Heterosexual White Male Gaze
'Woman' as the to-be-looked-at-other
[Ann Daly]
Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
by Audre Lorde
Donna Haraway's "belly of the monster"
in “Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective,” Feminist Studies 14, no. 3 (1988)
Judith Butler's "Heterosexual Matrix"
in “Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix,” in Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Mötley Crüe "Girls, Girls, Girls" (1987)
Guns N’ Roses’ “Welcome To The Jungle” (1987):
“If you want it you're gonna bleed but it's the price to pay"
T. Rex’s “Bang a Gong (Get it on)” (1971):
“Well you're slim and you're weak
You've got the teeth of the hydra upon you"
Def Leppard's "Pour Some Sugar On Me" (1987)
"Crazy little woman in a one man show"
"Mirror queen, mannequin"
"Little miss innocent sugar me"
"You got the peaches, I got the cream"
"Do you take sugar? One lump or two?"
AC/DC's "You Shook Me All Night Long” (1980)
“She had the sightless eyes, telling me no lies
Knocking me out with those American thighs"
Rock & Roll
Where are the empowered women
of rock and roll?
How do womanhood and femininity come into being?
How does womanhood come together within me?
Desire
Sensation
Energetic calibration
Radical
Resilient
Vibratory
Physics as metaphors for movement generation
Environmental Gradients
Vibration
Earthquakes
Lightning
Tectonic shift
bell hooks: Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics
“[...] as I looked for common passions, sentiments shared by folks across race, class, gender, and sexual practice, I was struck by the depths of longing in many of us...I began to ‘hear’ that longing for a freedom to control one’s destiny… Surely our desire for radical social change is intimately linked with the desire to experience leaguer, erotic fulfillment, and a host of other passions.”
Responsive Wild
What's Next
HERed and Frequency Machines
What is Queer Womanhood?
What is the landscape of Queer Identity?
[In conversation with rock and roll and 1980s popular media]
Femininity through digital interdisciplinary art medium
HERed [draft 1]
Frequency Machines [rehearsal cuts]