Hannah Skinner
Hannah Skinner is a Camberwell BA Fine Art Sculpture graduate and winner of the David Troostwyk Matt’s Gallery Studio Award 2019. In 2021, Hannah will complete a 6-month residency in Germany with the Urban Nation Museum to further explore queer expression through clothing and representation…
exploring queerness
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Interview
“A word that I think of when exploring my material choices is opulence…
…for me, this connects to queerness, intimately. I have an affinity for old queer glamour icons such as Cher, Ginger Rogers, and Barbra Streisand.
The faction of queerness that I explored for this exhibition was campness. In making these works I considered my aesthetic choices with Susan Sontag at the back on my mind, who said:
‘The hallmark of camp is the spirit of extravagance. Camp is a woman walking around in a dress made of 3 million feathers’.
This helped me push my material choices and evaluate them in a way I have not done before. Campness and opulence are terms that relate intimately to my existence as a queer person and how I think of the perception of my queer self or what queerness is to me.”
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Dada Connection: Costume & Cabaret Voltaire
Cabaret Voltaire, an artistic nightclub in Zürich, Switzerland, is often thought of as the birthplace of Dada. It was founded by Hugo Ball and Emmy Hennings in February 1916. It closed in the summer of 1916. Although short lived, the space became a site to explore Dada’s identity, with wild costume parties, self expression, sound poems and experimental performance at the very core of its continuing legacy.
Find out more Find out more“Every word that is spoken and sung here (the Cabaret Voltaire) represents at least this one thing: that this humiliating age has not succeeded in winning our respect.” – Hugo Ball
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