In this lecture Susan Leigh Foster examines Jérôme Bel’s ‘Pichet Klunchun and Myself’ in relation to its representation of gender and, even more, the gendered division of labour that it embodies in order to discern what she sees as serious obstacles to intercultural collaboration. Gender provides an analytic framework for categorising action throughout the performance that reveals the underpinnings of the euphoria produced by the performance’s display of cross-cultural conversation and understanding.

Lecture: Susan Leigh Foster
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