Name/TitleTie: Diane Torr
About this objectMan's brown tie with orange and cream pattern worn by performance artist Diane Torr (1948-2017).
MakerGlobus
Place MadeGermany
Medium and MaterialsOrganic, rayon
MeasurementsL: 1385 x W: 94 mm
Subject and Association Keywordsgender & sexuality
Subject and Association KeywordsPerformance art
Subject and Association Descriptionhttp://dianetorr.com/artist-bio:
Diane Torr lived and worked between Glasgow, Berlin and New York. She was a visiting lecturer at Glasgow School of Art, Stockholm University of Arts and Freie Universität Berlin. Diane was considered a physical philosopher – a thinker of the body. She had extensive research, knowledge and practice of several areas of body knowledge: the Japanese martial art of aikido in which she had a 3rd degree blackbelt from New York Aikikai; somatic dance forms such as Contact Improvisation, Release Technique and Movement improvisational techniques; body mechanics including kinesiology and postural alignment; and bodywork such as shiatsu massage therapy and touch-for-health. Diane was best-known internationally as one of the pioneers of “drag king” performance (female-to-male drag).
In 2002, she co-directed and co-curated, together with Berlin artist, Bridge Markland, the godrag! Festival at Tacheles, Berlin. This was a groundbreaking, and now legendary, one-month long international festival of women performing masculinity, femininity and androgyny. For over 20 years, Diane taught her renowned Man-for-a-Day workshop across Europe and North America, and in Brasilia, Istanbul and New Delhi. Her performance Drag Kings and Subjects and Man-for-a-Day workshop feature prominently in the documentary film Venus Boyz (2002).
Named CollectionGlasgow Women's Library
Object TypeCostume
Object numberGWL-2017-92-1-2
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