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In much of the work I do sexuality becomes a double sex that breaks with all oppositions and hierarchies. In the performance/ video installation Contre Bande, each gender binds one to the other, speaking the language of the other; binding and counter-binding. Contre Bande-against the band. To band - to bind. Genet, a novelist and an admitted homosexual cites Tiresias: ( who was noted for his bisexuality and his time spent as a woman as a punishment by the Gods for seeing snakes coupling)- "seven years in men's clothing, seven in women's. Because of his dual nature his femininity hounded his virility, both in play in such a way that he never had any rest, that is to say a fixed point on which to settle."
CONTRE BANDE is about the the attempt to filter images through strict cultural hierarchies.
CONTRE BANDE is about reclaiming the body as a spiritual container rather than as a social construct.