JSMA Schnitzer Cinema: Visiting Artist Zackary Drucker
JSMA SCHNITZER CINEMA presents VISITING ARTIST ZACKARY DRUCKER (MAY 3-4, 2016)
Zackary Drucker is an independent media, photography, and performance artist whose work has been exhibited internationally in museums, galleries, and film festivals including the Whitney Biennial 2014, MOMA PS1, Hammer Museum, Art Gallery of Ontario, among others. Drucker is also a transgender artist who breaks down the way we think about gender, sexuality, and seeing. She and her collaborator Rhys Ernst are co-producers of the Amazon TV series Transparent.
Infusing elements of photography, video, text and performance, my work is rooted in cultivating and investigating under-recognized aspects of transgender history, locating myself in the history, and communicating my contemporary experience of gender and sexuality… I engage and reactivate historical queer vernacular, a coded language of resistance that is often times illegible and cryptic to an un-familiarized audience. Locating myself both behind and in front of the lens, I inhabit the palatable, and often vacated aesthetic sensibility of drag, replacing the formulaic lip-synching routine with subversive language; I seek to destabilize both the drag-puppet and the voyeur, in an effort to humanize these reductive representations and simultaneously challenge their modes of misinterpretation.
JSMA Artist’s Project Space Exhibition: April 20- June 26, 2016
Relationship by Zackary Drucker and Rhys Ernst
Created by Zackary Drucker and Rhys Ernst, Relationship debuted at the 2014 Whitney Biennial. The JSMA exhibition features 26 selections from the project, which chronicles Drucker and Ernst’s private moments from 2008 to 2013 as a differently oriented transgender couple. During this time, Ernst transitioned from female to male and Drucker transitioned from male to female. Throughout the series, Drucker and Ernst portray each other and themselves as both whole and fragmented subjects—figures and bodies obscured by objects or reflected in mirrors — and situated within environments ranging from domestic interiors to lush, outdoor settings.
Included in the exhibition is Drucker and Ernst’s video collaboration, She Gone Rogue, featuring Drucker and Ernst with legendary transgender performers Holly Woodlawn, Vaginal Davis, and Flawless Sabrina. Engaging a world of dream-like magical realism, SHE GONE ROGUE is a trans feminine take on the Hero’s Journey, offering kaleidoscopic entry into parallel dimensions, where time, space, age and gender collapse in a whirlpool of divergent possibilities.
Tuesday, May 3, 7pm, Free
LOCATION: THE WAYWARD LAMB AT 150 WEST BROADWAY
Women in Revolt (1971) introduced by Zackary Drucker
Schnitzer Cinema’s Queer Productions continues its film series with Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey’s “Women in Revolt” with an introduction by Zachary Drucker. Drucker was a close friend of the film’s star, Holly Woodlawn, who also appears in several of Drucker’s videos. Three girls from different walks of life, Candy from high society, Jackie from the middle class and Holly from the gutter (played by Warhol superstar drag queens Candy Darling, Jackie Curtis, and Holly Woodlawn), have different problems relating to men. With Candy it’s incest, Jackie is frigid and Holly’s a nymphomaniac. When Jackie feels that the group needs independence, she organizes meetings to enlist her friends in the newly fashionable Women’s Lib Movement. They decide to give up men, become lesbians and attempt careers, only to end up either exploited, derelict or abandoned.
Wednesday, May 4, 7pm, Free
LOCATION: JORDAN SCHNITZER MUSEUM OF ART
The Video Art of Zackary Drucker with the artist present
Drucker, co-creator of the Artist’s Project Space installation Relationship, will introduce her exhibition and present a selection of works on video, including At Least You Know You Exist, Lost Lake, The Skew, Southern for Pussy, and FISH.
Presented with support from the Provost Academic Support Grant, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Division of Equity and Inclusion, and is part of the “Queer Productions” series organized by the Department of English.