The 4th wall is a theatre term for the invisible wall between performers and the audience. When performers speak directly to the audience it’s considered breaking the 4th wall. As the sociologist Erving Goffman’s dramaturgy suggests, we are constantly performing our identities. The interviews on this page were an attempt to enquire beyond the performativity of self.
All tagged Queer
Parma Ham is a London based artist challenging normative notions of gender and the body.
(First published in Archer Magazine 12/10/19) Alison Bennett is a neuroqueer artist, activist, and academic that explores the complex world of autistic embodiment and neuroqueer skin.
(abridged version published in VICE, 19/03/18) JILF, a self-described nihilist and practising dominatrix, orchestrates painful and subversive acts with her partners with the aim of eliciting trauma and embracing disgust.
(First published in VICE 06/07/17) Respectively raised in the suburbs of the Gold Coast and Perth, the Huxley’s longed for something with more danger and glamour.
(Abridged version first published in DAZED & CONFUSED magazine, 03/03/17) Touka Voodoo has actively used body art and modification to transcend the notion of binaries.
(Things & Ink, issue 11) "I think it’s a real big kick and liberation once you’ve put on a face and the costume and you go out in public. You become a character, a different person, and so people respond to you differently.”
