Melanie Jame Wolf is an Australian artist working with performance, text, video, and installation in\u00a0projects\u00a0for theater, gallery, and screen spaces. Concerning herself with the poetics and problematics of ghosts, class, sensuality, gender, narratology, and the body as a political riddle,\u00a0she pursues an ongoing interest\u00a0in analysing the idea of performance-as-labour in artistic, popular entertainment, and everyday contexts. Her work often produces taxonomies\u00a0of performance techniques, for example:\u00a0of impersonation, melodrama, or stand up. She does this\u00a0in order to understand performance as a potential technology for survival,\u00a0and as an\u00a0engine for\u00a0fluidity of subjectivity from a queer-feminist perspective.\u00a0With a background in theater and dance, she approaches her work with video and installation as an expanded choreographic practice.\u00a0Her work seeks to play along a continuum of the sublime and the ridiculous.\u00a0Leaning into a hyper-stylised pop aesthetic, she is invested in humour as a strategy for critical possibility, and in working with language in subliminal and surprising ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","categories":[],"class_list":["post-27634","kb_artist","type-kb_artist","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"article_image":27631,"article_image_bu_de":"Parade : Parade, 2019. 2 Kanal HD Video, 3 min 45 sek. Videostill : Melanie Jame Wolf \/ Ashton Green","article_image_bu_en":"Parade : Parade, 2019. 2 channel HD video, 3 minutes 45 secs. video still: Melanie Jame Wolf \/ Ashton Green","datum_suche":"2020-06-30 13:48:42"},"yoast_head":"\n