Last weekend, I spent a night watching some of the most charismatic performances in the great city of San Francisco. It was a drag show at
Aunt Charlie's, and the range of personas was an intriguing reminder about everyday performances. Thanks for that insight in grad school,
Judith Butler -- the reality of gender as performance arises more often than I had imagined before learning about
gender theory!
The first artist that springs to mind is Cindy Sherman, a celebrated American photographer who has maintained herself as both creator and subject in her large body of work. Here's one of the more well-known images, called
Untitled (1981).
