About The Event
'Capturing Hate,' a recent investigative report, analyzed eyewitness videos of anti-trans violence filmed as entertainment. The 329 videos they review have been viewed 89,233,760 times -- they are so popular, in fact, that companies sponsor branded content on them to sell products.
We must ask: from the cinema to the street, do trans people matter beyond their entertainment value?
In this solo-performance situated at the place where the URL and IRL converge Alok explores the sinister sides of visibility and our abusive relationship with the internet: How many facebook likes does it take to love yourself? How many followers does it take to feel less lonely? What would it mean to understand the internet - and the violence it inflicts - as real? Why do we call this as, people looking at trans people's progress?
Join in for an evening of poetry and experimental performance confronting heartbreak, digital alienation, and the meaning of intimacy in a digital world.
We must ask: from the cinema to the street, do trans people matter beyond their entertainment value?
In this solo-performance situated at the place where the URL and IRL converge Alok explores the sinister sides of visibility and our abusive relationship with the internet: How many facebook likes does it take to love yourself? How many followers does it take to feel less lonely? What would it mean to understand the internet - and the violence it inflicts - as real? Why do we call this as, people looking at trans people's progress?
Join in for an evening of poetry and experimental performance confronting heartbreak, digital alienation, and the meaning of intimacy in a digital world.
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