Diane Torr Studio 227 WASPS Artists' Studios the Briggait 141 Bridgegate Glasgow G1 5HZ, U.K
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Diane Torr Studio 227 WASPS Artists' Studios The Briggait 141 Bridgegate Glasgow G1 5HZ, U.K. Tel: +44 (0)7791 617 973 HYPERLINK "mailto:[email protected]" [email protected] www.dianetorr.com SELECTED PERFORMANCES 2011 JACK SPRAT; TWO BANANA DANCE; DONALD DOES DUSTY 2010 DONALD DOES DUSTY 2009 DONALD DOES DUSTY; TURNING SEXTY 2008 DONALD DOES DUSTY 2008 ALL-IN GRINSBERG 2008 DISBAND 2007 HOMAGE TO NAM JUNE PAIK 2007 DRAG KINGS AND SUBJECTS 2006 MISTER “EE”; DETACHING THE POLE; DONALD DOES DUSTY, Parts 1,2 2005 DONALD DOES DUSTY, Part 1; LIFE AS AN AMERICAN MAN 2004 MALE IMPERSONATIONS x 6 at Tromolo 2004 SAINT SEBASTIAN OF “PAINFUL CREATURES” with Mischief-La-Bas 2003 SAINT SEBASTIAN OF “PAINFUL CREATURES” with Mischief-La-Bas 2002 MISTER “EE”; ALL ABOUT MY BROTHER 2001 CLAUDE CAHUN'S HEROINES; "X OCH Y" 2000 MILLENIUM - THE PAST BEHIND; IDEAL HOMO; JACK SPRAT COULD EAT NO FAT 1999 TRANS-CHANS: GENDER IS (A) PERFORMANCE; QUICK CHANGE 1998 BULL! 1995 DRAG KINGS AND SUBJECTS; CONTEXT/DESIRE; JACK SPRAT/HAPPY JACK 1994 OPEN FOR FLAVOR 1993 SCRATCH N SNIFF/TOUCH N FEEL 1992 READY, AYE READY 1990 CROSSING THE RIVER STYX 1989 PSSSSSSSSST; I.V. MERMAID 1988 CATASTROPHE AND BEGUILEMENT 1987 MALDOROR'S GREY LARK 1986 GIRLS WILL BE BOYS WILL BE QUEENS 1985 OEDIPUS 1984 GIRL IN TROUBLE 1983 VUURWATER 1982 AMOEBIC EVOLUTION; AROUSING RECONSTRUCTIONS; GO-GO WORLD 1981 GO-GO GIRLS SEIZE CONTROL; THE RIGHT THING TO DO 1980 THE SPEED OF SIGHT; SLEAZE-TEAZE; PORN-PULL; DISBAND 1979 STATIC GRAVITY; IT'S ABOUT TIME; DISBAND 1978 EGYPTIAN STOCK; THE HALF-LIVES OF PLUTONIUM; WORLD SHIFT; DISBAND SELECTED VENUES AND FESTIVALS 2011 CCA, Glasgow; NovaDanca Festival, Brasilia, Club Wotever, London, Marlborough Theatre, Brighton; Never or Now Festival, Bergen, Bowery Poetry Project, New York 2010 – La MaMa Theatre, New York; 2009 – Palazzo Rosso, Pride Festival, Genoa; The Tron Theatre, Glasgow; The Work Room, Tramway, Glasgow; Genova Pride Festival, Italy; Incheon International Women Artists’ Biennial, S. Korea; 2008 – “Wack – Art and the Feminist Revolution”, PS1/MOMA, New York; The First International Drag King Festival, Rome; Drag Festival, Berlin; Spangled Cabaret, Café Rio, Glasgow 2007 – Teatro Pradillo – Summer in the City Arts Festival, Madrid; Club Kaos, London; Classic Grande, Glasgow; James Cohan Gallery, New York; 2006 – Orgax Festival, Lisbon; CCA, Glasgow; Transfabulous Festival, London; Shtudio Show, Chez Bushwick, Brooklyn; Escena Contemporanea Festival, Madrid; Transforming Gender Conference, Boulder U., Colorado; Khoj Workshop, New Delhi; 2005 – Brother for a Day – Intl AIDS Day, Brunswick Hotel, Glasgow; Icon, Glasgow; Santa Fe Art Centre, New Mexico; Spring Festival, University College, Chichester; Glasgow University Theatre Department; Chapelle Fromentin, La Rochelle; Arteleku, San Sebastian; 2004 – New Georges Theatre, New York; Club Wotever, London; Glasgow School of Art; Buff Club, Glasgow; Schwuz Club. Berlin; La Strada Festival, Graz; Sotteville Festival, Rouen; Camden Festival, London; Brighton Festival; Bradford Festival; Big in Falkirk Festival 2003 – Hanbury Ballroom, Brighton; Big in Falkirk Festival; Club Tapis Rouge, New York; Living Room Project, Hudson, New York; Open Ohr Festival, Mainz; The Arches, Glasgow; TNT, Bordeaux; 2002 – Nazareth College, New York; Godrag! Festival Berlin, PS122, NYC; 2001 – Bard College, New York, North London University, UK, Sarah Lawrence College, NY; 2000 – T. Junction, Vienna, Slipper Room, NYC; 1999 – Migros Museum, Zurich; Studio Theatre, Leeds; Magma, Istanbul; 1998 – Solo Mio Festival, San Francisco; Tramway, Glasgow; Sushi, San Diego; Theatre des Augenblicks, Vienna; 1997 – The Albany Theatre, London; Waves 97 Festival, Vordingborg, Denmark; Helsinki act Festival, Finland; Dartington Hall, Totnes; 1996 – Schmidt Theatre, Hamburg, Oval House Theatre, London; ZAP Club, Brighton; Intermedia, Minneapolis; 1995 – Judson Church, NYC; ICA, London; Club Roxy, Amsterdam; Dixon Place, NYC; 1994 – NAAO Conference, Miami; SNDO, Amsterdam; 1993 - ICA Boston; Tansprojekt, Cologne; Die Werkstatt, Dusseldorf; Dance Lab, Bristol; 1992 – La Mama Theatre, NYC; Hamilton Artists Inc., Ontario; 1990 – Public Theatre, NYC; Franklin Furnace, NYC; 1989 – A Space, Toronto; Saw Gallery, Ottawa; ACE Art, Winnipeg; Artspace, Peterborough, Ont.; 1988 –ABC No Rio, New York; St. Marks Church Danspace, NYC; New Langton Arts, San Francisco; The Lab, San Francisco; Interarts, Los Angeles; The Warehouse, Tallahassee (curated by Critical Art Ensemble); Ground Zero, Tampa; Starck Club, Dallas; The Ice Factory, Phoenix; Cinema in Your Face, Salt Lake City; NW Arts, Portland; Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis; Herron Art Gallery, Annapolis; Spaces, Cleveland; 1987 - 14K Kabaret, Baltimore; 1986 – Pyramid Club, NYC; 1985 – Creative Time, NYC; 1984 – Movement Research – NYC; 1983 – PS1 – NYC; Limbo Lounge, NYC; 1982 – de Zaak, Groningen; Melkweg, Amsterdam; Paradiso, Amsterdam; Metropole, Berlin; Festival of Madness, Ghent; Stalker Theatre, Brussels; King Tut’s Wa-Wa Hut, NYC; 1981 – WOW Festival, NYC; Club 57, NYC; Mudd Club, NYC; 1980 – Just Above Mid-Town Gallery, NYC; Times Square Show, NYC; 1979 – Interart Theatre, NYC; 1978 – X-6 Dance Space, London; Nova Scotia School of Art and Design, Halifax. PUBLICATIONS Sex, Drag and Male Roles; Investigating Gender as Performance (co-authored by Steven Bottoms), University of Michigan Press 2010 (as part of)DISBAND – CD of songs produced by Primary Information 2009 (as part of)DISBAND – 1978-82 – DVD released 2008 New York correspondent - www.queercompany.com 2000-2 “West Cuntry Drag King Fling” – part of AROUSED an anthology of erotic writings edited by Karen Finley. Avalon Press 2001 Movement Research Journal - Contributor 1985-98 BOOK LAUNCHES OF SEX, DRAG AND MALE ROLES; INVESTIGATING GENDER AS PERFORMANCE Rome: Agender Film Festival, December 12, 2011 Berlin: Schwules Museum/SchwuZ - June 30, 2011 Vienna: Akademie der Bildenden Künste – What a Drag Festival, Brut Theater, Vienna – June 9, 2011 Leeds: Workshop Theatre, University of Leeds – May 5, 2011 Brasilia: University of Brasilia, Psychology Department – February 19, 2011 London: Club Wotever, Royal Vauxhall Tavern – February 15, 2011 Brighton: Marlborough Theatre – February 10, 2011 Bergen: Hordaland Art Centre – January 28, 2011 New York: Bowery Poetry Club – January 12, 2011 Chicago: Mothers and Children First Bookstore – January 6, 2011 New York: Blue Stockings Bookstore – December 3, 2010 Shakespeare and Co. – December 2, 2010 Tisch School of the Arts, NYU – December 1, 2010 New York State: Bard College – November 30, 2010 Glasgow: Aye, Aye Books, CCA – November 18, 2010 GRANTS/RESIDENCIES Macdowell Colony Fellowship, August 2011 Dance Lab, Dance House, Glasgow 2011 Dance Lab, Dance House, Glasgow 2010 The Work Room Dance Residency, Tramway, Glasgow 2010 The Work Room Dance Residency, Tramway, Glasgow 2009 Visual Statement Residency, Easterhouse, Glasgow 2007 Khoj Art Residency, New Delhi 2006 Scottish Arts Council, Professional Development 2006 Scottish Arts Council, Project Funding 2006 Cove Park, Helensburgh 2005 Macdowell Colony Fellowship 2003 Haupstadtkulturfonds, Berlin 2002 T.Junction, Vienna/RE.AL, Lisbon Research Residency 2000 Yorkshire and Humberside Arts, England 1998/9 Art Matters Grant 1996 Macdowell Colony Fellowship 1996 Joyce Mertz Gilmore Foundation Fund 1995 Jerome Foundation fund for Performance Art 1985/90/94 Cummington Community of the Arts Residency 1988/89/91/92 Artists Space Award 1987 New York State Council on the Arts Inter-Arts Grant 1986 New York State Council on the Arts Caps Grant 1984 VISITING ARTIST Humboldt University, Berlin 2011 Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna 2011 Workshop Theatre, University of Leeds 2011 Hordaland Art Centre, Bergen 2011 Bard College, New York 2010 TSOA, New York University 2010 Nortumbria University, Newcastle 2010 Rutgers University, Fine Arts Dept., New Jersey 2009 Fieldstone Academy, Riverdale, New York 2009 Glasgow School of Art 2008 University of Leeds, Workshop Theatre 2007 University of Boulder, Colorado 2006 University of Massachusettes, Amherst 2006 University of Aberystwyth, Wales 2006 University of Leeds 2006 Glasgow School of Art 2006 Glasgow School of Art 2005 University of Preston 2005 University of Aberystwyth 2005 University of York 2005 Northumbria University 2004 New Georges Theatre, New York 2004 Dartington College of Arts, Devon 2003 Cornerhouse, Manchester 2003 R.S.A.M.D., Glasgow – May 2003 Simon’s Rock College, Gt. Barrington, MA, April 2003 Glasgow School of Art, Friday Lecture Series 2002 The University of Chicago - Centre for Gender Studies 2002 Women in the Director’s Chair, Chicago 2002 Rutgers University Fine Arts Department 2002 NYU Performance Studies, Visiting Lecturer Series 2002 Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York 2001 Brighton University Department of Fine Art 2000 R.E.A.L., Lisbon, Portugal 2000 College of Art and Design, Philadelphia 2000 Lee High University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 1999 Central St. Martin’s School of Art &Design, London 1994/5/7 Leeds University - Performance Studies 1997 Chichester College of Education, England - Dance Dept 1997 Hull University - Critical Studies 1997 Goldsmiths College, London - Drama Department 1995/6 Winchester School of Art, England - Fine Arts Dept 1996 Kingston University, London - Fine Arts Dept 1996 Dartington College of Arts, England - Drama Dept 1996 New York University - Critical Studies 1996 Minneapolis University - Critical Studies 1996