Surfacing HypoKrisia

Durational performance via email
at MUSEION Infolounge
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These efforts are expressed through the use of different medias/mediums — dances appearing and disappearing throughout three days, and an endless, unedited, live-written email correspondence between the artist Charlie Laban Trier and HypoKrisia, a secretive ghost-writer, and hopefully other voices.

This speculation conceives HypoKrisia as the forgotten little sister of the blind prophet Tiresias. Charlie asks himself/us: what if this goddess was intentionally written out of “his”story, because her qualities and learnings were deemed unworthy and dangerous? She’s a hypocrite and a hypokrite* — a position that philosophers like Plato were highly suspicious towards, as they believed that actors and poets’ imitation skills de-attached them from “reality”.

HypoKrisia, unlike her bigger brother who himself is a trans-figure, boasts qualities of liminal transgressions. Tiresias embodies complete transformative qualities, while she resists becoming — choosing to inhabit a decidedly and self-conscious performative state of “half undone”. In this undefined partnership, HypoKrisia invites Charlie to be guided by the laws of the trickster, and embracing hypocrisy. Together they celebrate the queer virtuosic performance practice - Realness (with a nod to the House Ballroom scene) - a practice that through centering the craft and execution of the image, questions the surrounding society’s view on authenticity and playfully challenges who gets “to be” real.

Further, they’ll attempt to open and myth-bust the myth-making of Testosterone with a critical gaze towards western science’s ongoing project and construction of gender stereotypes.

* (ancient Greek word for actor)