As part of the exhibition Cinque Mostre 2018 – The Tesseract, the American Academy in Rome is pleased to announce a day of encounters between artists, critics, and scholars dedicated to the history, mythology, and contemporary significance of transsexuality in Western painting, sculpture, film and performance. Inspired by the work of current fellows and important figures in Italian art from the cinquecento until the present, this series of presentations and screenings will explore how evolving representations of transfigured, transgender, or nonbinary bodies have created discursive links between bodily hybridity, creativity, and power.

Speakers: Leslie Cozzi, Jessica Gabriel Peritz, and Alessandro Bava. The presentations will be conducted in English.

Screening: A. L Steiner and A. K. Burns, Community Action Center, 2010.

Exhibition: Cinque Mostre 2018 – The Tesseract will be open on 8 March 8 from 4:00 to 8:00pm.

Please see full program in attachment.

The project is made possible by the Adele Chatfield-Taylor and John Guare Fund for the Arts and the Fellows’ Project Fund of the American Academy in Rome.