A lecture and activity programme on queering sports and teamwork
A Beyond Social event, WdKA Social Practices
Learning together about some (historical) glimpses of the achievements of trans and other gender expanding athletes, current debates around inclusive gender categories in sport, and chomping through notions of fair competition.
Participants (scroll for bios):
- Gabriel Fontana MULTIFORM: Reshaping social norms through sports;
- Z. Blace (ccSPORT / Akademie Schloss Solitude) Creative and Critical SPORT practices;
- Jay Tan (Tender Center) Unnatural levels: wins, tests, bans and flaws of cis-fairness.
When:
Thursday, April 25
19:00 – 21:30
Where:
WdKA Basketball Court
3/F Wijnhaven 61
(Behind the Fabric Station)
Willem de Kooning Academy
Admission: free
GABRIEL FONTANA (born in France) is a designer with a practice established in Social Design. After developing a multidisciplinary design practice in France at Saint-Etienne Higher School of Art and Design (2015), he graduated from the Social Design masters programme of the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2018. Through a queer framework, Gabriel investigates how daily social practices reproduce conservative values and reinforces power structures. Within a phenomenological approach, Gabriel develops performative design research, positioning the body as the central perspective from which the social world is experienced, reproduced, and challenged.
Z. BLACE (born Željko Blaće in 1976 SFR Yugoslavia, now roaming Europe) (in-)consistently (net)working in(-between) contemporary culture/arts, politics/activism and community sport/leisure, by cross-pollinating practices, methods, media and technologies in roles as an instigator, anti-disciplinary artivist, researcher and organiser, as seasonal designer, editor, educator, curator, critic, conveyer.
JAY TAN makes sculpture, performance, sound and video. She grew up in South London during the eighties, assuming most heads of state were female. Currently, she teaches Fine Art at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and is based in Rotterdam, where she also co-runs new community space, Tender Center. She completed her MFA at the Piet Zwart Institute in 2010 and was a 2014/15 resident at the Rijksakademie.
TENDER CENTER is a collective of feminist queers who are building the beginnings of a community centre for culture, or a venue for queer events, or a university of life in Rotterdam. It is a relational infrastructure with parties, agitation, co-learning, bodies in varying states, gardening, (s)words, conversation, workshops, food, DIY darkroom, cats, curry, and a solid sound system.