Graffiti Gender
@graffitigender
Graffiti Gender is a performance intervention that involves adding art to the gendered signs on public restrooms. It started as a final project for a performance studies seminar at San Francisco State Univeristy. This serves to highlight the system(s) of power that the signs represent and their function of producing/policing gender, as well as their invisibilization/exclusion of gender identities and/or presentations that exist outside of the gender binary. Please feel free to participate and submit photos/descriptions of your performance(s), if you feel so inclined. Something to keep in mind: while we all exist within the system(s) of power that reinforce the fucked up gender binary, this project does not aim to make more work/labor for janitorial/custodial employees who clean the restrooms. Please include this in your consideration for how you attach your art to the sign. (The administrator of this blog uses scotch tape because it's easily removable) This project draws inspiration from Foucault's concept of power, Guillermo Gomez-Pena's/Dwight Conquergood's concept of the power/use/purpose of performance, Tony Perucci's ideas of "Ruptural Performance," Sophia Rose's project "Restoring the Restroom," Dean Spade's "Administrative Violence," The Interventionists and Nato Thompson's writing about them, and the concepts of "Culture Jamming" and "Pranking"