PRELUDE 2024: Ornamentalism by Riven Ratanavanh
Wed, Oct 16
|The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center
PRELUDE artist Riven Ratanavanh explores the gendered racialization of the Asian transmasculine body
Time & Location
Oct 16, 2024, 4:30 PM – 5:50 PM
The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, 365 5th Ave, New York, NY 10016, USA
Guests
About the event
Ornamentalism is a ritual that explores the gendered racialization of the Asian transmasculine body, using tattoo as a way to inscribe personal loss and collective histories onto the skin. Through the duration of this piece the audience is invited to witness the act of transforming the body as an act of adornment, adornment as transformation; and the ways in which the two respond to and rub up against the world.
This event will be shared via the Segal Center YouTube channel.
Riven Ratanavanh (b. 1996 in Bangkok, Thailand) is a New York-based multidisciplinary artist whose work spans performance, film, and visual art to investigate queer politics, diasporic memory, and trans imaginations. Exploring the embodied realms of power, gender, and race, his performances have been presented at Performance Space, the Poetry Project, and the Center for Performance Research. His work has also been featured at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) London, the London Short Film Festival, Seattle Trans Film Festival, Otherness Archive, and the Cultural Institute of Radical Contemporary Arts (CIRCA).
Photo: Mengwen Cao
This event is presented as part of the 2024 PRELUDE Festival. For the full program, click here.