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Victoria Sin<\/a> is trying something new. I meet the 29-year-old Canadian-born artist \u2013 known for their use of performance, film and speculative fiction to deconstruct the limits of the body \u2013 at the studio they share with their partner and collaborator, Shy One. They make their living as an artist in London, widely recognised for their distinctive approach to questions of identification. In recent years, they have exhibited work at the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto Canada, the Hayward Gallery, the Whitechapel Gallery, the 2019 Venice Biennale, Palais de Tokyo, the Serpentine Galleries, the Taipei Contemporary Art Center, Art Basel Hong Kong, the ICA, Block Universe and the Tate Modern, among others.<\/p>\n

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For Sin, queer kinship and community birthed their practice; it offered a myriad of alternative possibilities and new ways of being. At 18, they moved to London, attempting to escape the naming and policing of their body, a theme that recurs throughout their work. \u201cDrag shows were the first time I saw this empowered embodiment of queer femininity … I used to live across the street from Vogue Fabrics in Dalston, London. The community there allowed drag to be whatever you wanted it to be. That was new for me, I was used to more traditional drag shows dominated by cis white men performing an idea of womanhood back in Toronto. When I moved to London, suddenly drag was dressing up like a green monster, or a bin bag.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":83818,"id":83818,"title":"VS_02_053","filename":"VS_02_053-1.jpg","filesize":1133605,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/VS_02_053-1.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/victoria-sin-multimedia-performace-art-gender\/vs_02_053-2\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"vs_02_053-2","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":83642,"date":"2020-03-17 16:18:59","modified":"2020-03-17 16:18:59","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1350,"height":1801,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/VS_02_053-1.jpg","thumbnail-width":72,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/VS_02_053-1.jpg","medium-width":1350,"medium-height":1801,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/VS_02_053-1.jpg","medium_large-width":1350,"medium_large-height":1801,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/VS_02_053-1.jpg","large-width":1350,"large-height":1801,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/VS_02_053-1.jpg","1536x1536-width":1151,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/VS_02_053-1.jpg","2048x2048-width":1350,"2048x2048-height":1801,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/VS_02_053-1.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":9,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/VS_02_053-1.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1350,"wpvr_mobile-height":1801}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":"SHIRT AND NECKLACE: Christian Dior\r\nUNDERWEAR: La Perla\r\nSHOES: WESTERN AFFAIR"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

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Queer nightlife in London provided the opportunity to play, a space where \u2018weirdos\u2019 could experiment. Having been obsessed with the artifice of Western femininity, Sin sought to burst it open by using drag to pick apart the fantasy image of femininity that dictates gendered social scripts. \u201cIf you were assigned female at birth, or you present as feminine now, you\u2019ve been measured against an ideal image of femininity … Growing up, every image of femininity was skinny, white, cookie cutter. I was obsessed with that and old Hollywood versions of it. A lot of my early drag was trying to attain this \u2018moving goalpost\u2019 ideal of Western femininity. I was trying to embody and explode this image of white femininity, to say, \u2018Look, I can do it and it\u2019s not real<\/em>.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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Sin\u2019s art is seductive. Their fantasy images \u2013 contained in works such as Preface\/Looking Without Touching<\/em> (2017)<\/a> and She Postures in Context<\/em> (2018)<\/a> \u2013 invite you in, exposing the mechanisms that shame and police non-normative desire. Their work explores the failure of heterosexuality: the audience is made aware that what they are viewing is an elaborate construction, but Sin demands they grapple with their attraction to fantasy. \u201cThe sexuality in my work didn\u2019t occur to me until people started pointing it out. There is something that has to do with the fact that I am a person who was socialised as a woman, who is also attracted to femininity. Do I want to be this image or do I want to fuck this image? That\u2019s a big question in dyke culture, and a complex relationship to navigate.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":83822,"id":83822,"title":"VS_01_067","filename":"VS_01_067.jpeg","filesize":1400566,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/VS_01_067.jpeg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/victoria-sin-multimedia-performace-art-gender\/vs_01_067\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"vs_01_067","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":83642,"date":"2020-03-17 16:22:47","modified":"2020-03-17 16:22:47","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1431,"height":1909,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/VS_01_067.jpeg","thumbnail-width":72,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/VS_01_067.jpeg","medium-width":1431,"medium-height":1909,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/VS_01_067.jpeg","medium_large-width":1431,"medium_large-height":1909,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/VS_01_067.jpeg","large-width":1431,"large-height":1909,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/VS_01_067.jpeg","1536x1536-width":1151,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/VS_01_067.jpeg","2048x2048-width":1431,"2048x2048-height":1909,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/VS_01_067.jpeg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":9,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/VS_01_067.jpeg","wpvr_mobile-width":1431,"wpvr_mobile-height":1909}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":"JACKET: Versace \r\nJEWELLERY: Artist's own. "}},{"acf_fc_layout":"blockquote","text":"\"For me, it was eye-opening to be able to become this fantasy embodiment because suddenly people didn\u2019t know what was underneath.\"","source":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

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But the fantasy also had very real consequences for how Sin moved through the world, demonstrating further that the body is merely a way to be read, providing safety and disguise for some, and proximity to violence for others. \u201cIn a Western context, the way I am sexualised is also racialised. That\u2019s a disgusting feeling. For me, it was eye-opening to be able to become this fantasy embodiment because suddenly people didn\u2019t know what was underneath. People would assume I was a cis white guy and they started treating me differently. I was in clubs and people would move out of my way.\u201d In an increasingly reactionary and hostile environment in which gender binaries are being reinscribed and trans life presented as a threat, Sin\u2019s work helps us understand the fluidity of gender and the elaborate ruse of identity, illustrating how easily the body is able to morph and transform.<\/p>\n

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The defining quality of Sin\u2019s work is constant reinvention. In line with their intention to disrupt and confuse normative processes, they refuse singular and categorical approaches to their practice. Their interests have always been multiple, and this is demonstrated in the breadth of their artwork. They are many things at once: a visual and moving image artist, a drag performer, a curator, a zine editor and a speculative fiction writer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":83820,"id":83820,"title":"VS_04_010","filename":"VS_04_010-1-e1584462193935.jpg","filesize":177301,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/VS_04_010-1-e1584462193935.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/victoria-sin-multimedia-performace-art-gender\/vs_04_010-2\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"vs_04_010-2","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":83642,"date":"2020-03-17 16:19:09","modified":"2020-03-17 16:19:09","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1500,"height":990,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/VS_04_010-1-e1584462193935.jpg","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":84,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/VS_04_010-1-e1584462193935.jpg","medium-width":1500,"medium-height":990,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/VS_04_010-1-e1584462193935.jpg","medium_large-width":1500,"medium_large-height":990,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/VS_04_010-1-e1584462193935.jpg","large-width":1500,"large-height":990,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/VS_04_010-1-e1584462193935.jpg","1536x1536-width":1500,"1536x1536-height":990,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/VS_04_010-1-e1584462193935.jpg","2048x2048-width":1500,"2048x2048-height":990,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/VS_04_010-1-e1584462193935.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":18,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/VS_04_010-1-e1584462193935.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1500,"wpvr_mobile-height":990}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"10","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

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The interdiscipliary nature of their work is evidenced by the fact that it can be found in DIY nightclubs (Sin has performed at many queer and lesbian nights as a drag queen), emerging feminist literary festivals such as London\u2019s New Suns<\/em> festival, as well as immersive live performance pieces in established art contexts \u2013 the Venice Biennale, the Tate and Sotheby\u2019s, for example. Sin is a shapeshifter and as their artistic practice has developed, so have their interests. \u201cRecently, I\u2019ve been moving away from trying to be this perfect embodiment of Western femininity. I\u2019ve done that. What do I want to do now? I\u2019ve been exploring the way drag exists in Cantonese opera, reimagining the visual language and aesthetics of what a queer sci-fi Cantonese opera would look and feel like.\u201d Intensely aware of their audience, they refuse to \u201cperform ethnicity\u201d for a white-dominated art world, seeking instead to denaturalise the language of identity, revealing it for what it is, a pattern, a code. In If I had the words to tell you we wouldn\u2019t be here now<\/em> (2019), an extended performance staged at the Venice Biennale as well as Tapei\u2019s Chi-Wen gallery, Sin lip syncs to their own musings on the limits of linguistic expression (they call language and naming \u201can act of mastery\u201d).<\/p>\n

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\u201cI keep on coming back to language in my performances and in my writing, I\u2019m running in circles with it a little bit. There\u2019s an impossibility of deconstructing language using language, but what other tools do we have? Our brains function through pattern recognition, so categorisation is inherent in language. I\u2019m trying to figure out the ways we can transcend how language makes us think of ourselves in the world.\u201d We agree that the density of the English language and its violent histories make it impossible to articulate the process they are trying to describe. In order to describe it, we\u2019d need to invent new methods of communication. For Sin, in the absence of that articulation, feeling serves as a means of conveying what could be. Feeling is evoked in their elaborate creation of immersive environments. In And at the pinnacle the foot of a mountain<\/em> (2019), a 23-minute soundscape presented last autumn at Sheffield\u2019s Site Gallery, Sin attempts to rewrite the future through the use of futuristic storytelling animated by atmospheric sound. \u201cSound has its own kind of language. It\u2019s a language that doesn\u2019t need words and that rubs against categorisation. It\u2019s able to express emotion more fluently than language can. I\u2019m trying to break down the binary of thinking and feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":83821,"id":83821,"title":"VS_05_046","filename":"VS_05_046-1.jpg","filesize":1253962,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/VS_05_046-1.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/victoria-sin-multimedia-performace-art-gender\/vs_05_046-2\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"vs_05_046-2","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":83642,"date":"2020-03-17 16:19:14","modified":"2020-03-17 16:19:14","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1350,"height":1800,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/VS_05_046-1.jpg","thumbnail-width":72,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/VS_05_046-1.jpg","medium-width":1350,"medium-height":1800,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/VS_05_046-1.jpg","medium_large-width":1350,"medium_large-height":1800,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/VS_05_046-1.jpg","large-width":1350,"large-height":1800,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/VS_05_046-1.jpg","1536x1536-width":1152,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/VS_05_046-1.jpg","2048x2048-width":1350,"2048x2048-height":1800,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/VS_05_046-1.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":9,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/VS_05_046-1.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1350,"wpvr_mobile-height":1800}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":"TOP AND SHORTS: Prada\r\nSHOES: Artist's own"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

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Sin\u2019s desire to help their audience escape reality is a result of their interest in science fiction as well as their desire to unravel the dominant narratives that define the way we live. \u201cPeople like Ursula le Guin, Samuel Delany, Octavia Butler … They are the people I always come back to. The most important thing for me is that science fiction can ask the question, \u2018What if?\u2019. What if things were different? What if I was different? What if things don\u2019t change? That science fiction can do this and also immerse you in an experience of what it would feel like to live in that world is vital when we\u2019re living in a world where man-made narratives are altering our minds every day in really violent ways.\u201d They consider their practice to be a continuation of a science fiction legacy. This interest led them to edit science fiction zines Dream Babes 1<\/em> and 2.0<\/em>, inviting authors and artists Samuel Delany and Shu Lea Cheang, Xia Jia and Sophia Al-Maria to contribute. Critical science fiction allowed them to develop new ideas, defining the purpose of performance. \u201cThese performances where there are costumes and narratives and sound design and lighting design … I\u2019m trying to use every theatrical device at my disposal to try and give you an idea of what it feels like in this world that I want to make and be in.\u201d Sin believes that science fiction can also help us talk about and think through sex. Inspired by the work of director Eric Pussyboy and artist Shu Lea Cheang, whose 2017 film, Fluid\u00f8<\/em>, imagined a post-HIV\/AIDS future, Sin sees the potential for science fiction to combat and abolish the biological essentialism that plagues our understandings of gender, nature, pornography and desire.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s next? Sin is busy preparing for a performance at the Guggenheim in New York later this year, and is excited about the new direction their work is taking. Whether drag performance, moving image, soundscaping or science fiction storytelling, their work demands to be witnessed. \u201cIt becomes incredibly important to understand the process of narrative-building as it exists around us in history, religion, science, the news, and then to write new narratives. Writing speculative fiction is that one extra step, I know that all of this isn\u2019t real. So I\u2019m just going to write the narratives that I want to be in.\u201d They invite us to recognise the narratives that shape our lives, and begin to unravel them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"

CREDITS<\/p>\n

All photography by Nhu Xuan Hua<\/a>.
\nHair Stylist: Tomomi Roppongi<\/a> @ Saint Luke Artists using EVO Hair
\nSet Designer: Paulina Piiponen<\/a>
\nPhotographer Assistant: Anna Sophia John<\/a>
\nStylist Assistant: Pierre Alexandre Fillaire<\/a>
\nHair stylist assistant: Charles Stanley<\/a><\/p>\n

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