Gin Müller & Gorji Marzban

After a great success and an excited audience in October 2014 we welcome TRANS GENDER MOVES back on stage. The performance revolves around the question of what makes a person challenge their own gender or gender identity. In this context, the project presents three biographical journeys that were developed together with the respective protagonists. Three transgender personalities from different countries, cultures and generations meet in the intimate environment of brut im Konzerthaus: a transman (Anthony Wagner), an intersex person (Gorji Marzban) and a transwoman (Nicole Foucher). They all bring memories and stories in connection with experiences beyond familiar gender conventions to the stage. Not only do they relate tragicomic stories from their lives, they also embody and thus reflect the situations and discourses on transitions, body and border crossings. The question of, and search for, a “true” gender identity is thus revealed as an endeavour bound never to find an ultimate end.
Gin Müller is a dramaturge, theatre scholar, performer and queer theorist. S/he works at the interface between performance art and political activism. In 2013, s/he was a guest at brut with the project Rebelodrom. Gorji Marzban is a biotechnology professor and co-founder of the Oriental Queer Organisation advocating the rights of migrants from the LGBTIQ (lesbian/gay/bisexual/trans/intersex/queer) community in Austria.

On 26 March there will be an audience discussion after the performance.

Created by and featuring Gin Müller, Gorji Marzban, Anthony Wagner, Nicole Foucher, Jan Machacek, Oliver Stotz, Rupert Müller, Philip Kopal and others

A co-production by Verein zur Förderung der Bewegungsfreiheit, brut Wien, Kuul-Forum für Kunst und Literatur, ORQOA-Oriental Queer Organisation Austria. Kindly supported by the City of Vienna’s Department of Cultural Affairs.