After the large extravagance of "Antigone Sr.", the knock'em dead medium "(M)imosa", and the avalanche of the series in the 2012 and 2013 ImPulsTanz Festival editions, Trajal Harrell's series "Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at The Judson Church" has indeed a final work: the XL publication. Harrell together with series performer Thibault Lac will invent a laboratory where the XL can be uncovered, debated, and brought to fantastical realisation. Following an introduction to the series' theoretical premise, notions of performativity, and history of performance, participants will be invited to imagine the publication and work as an editorial team producing performative texts, interviews, photo essays, fake performances, documentation of fake performances, invented places and personas, in addition to things as yet to be proposed and known. How indeed can we perform this publication? This is for the bitches ready to take history into their own fake Gucci bags!!
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