TRANSCENDING FANTASY
2017-2020, Curated video screening, poster and zine
© Claudia Sandoval Romero
Transcending Fantasy is a project that presents a curated screening of video works by Mai Endo, Yuriko Sasaoka, Malcom Kratz, Memz Chipperfield, Fuyuhiko Takata and Rosa Wiesauer:
"Transcending Fantasy explores subversive, artistic and joyful approaches to dealing with gender and identity construction in Japanese (pop) culture through video art. Queer identities are to be seen in a lot of Japanese pop-cultural contexts like anime and manga, music, tv-shows, and movies. Viewers are exposed to queer identities on screen, stage or in comics like Sailor Moon, Revolutionary Girl Utena and The Roses of Versailles. Although celebrated in the media, LGBTQIA* identities are rarely to be seen in everyday life. They face discrimination in their workplace, are excluded and avoided by their families or friend circles."
Transcending Fantasy was shown as a screening of published zines with a text by Mika Maruyama in the exhibition Translocal Archives and subsequently as a poster in the exhibition When it Waxes and Wanes.
shown in 2019 in the exhibition Translocal Archives and as a poster in 2020 in the exhibition When it Waxes and Wanes, Verein Bildender Künstlerinnen Österreich, Vienna
© Claudia Sandoval Romero
© Claudia Sandoval Romero