Abstract

This chapter addresses the work of Phia Menard, the founder of the theatre company Compagnie Non Nova, whose oeuvre continually raises questions about the experience of queer embodiment and performance. Following Judith Butler’s notion of gender, Lodi Rizzini focuses on the urgency and importance of continuing to rethink materiality and experience as theoretical and performative tools in the performing arts in France. The work of artist Phia Menard, founder of theater company Cie Non Nova, stands out in the context of French theater and performance, both for her artistic research as well as her critical point of view relating to the subjects she investigates, in particular the transgender body and individuality. Within the “complicated” reception of queer theory in France, it is clear that transgender subjects are assigned the position of liminal subject in both academic theory and in French civil society. Despite the increasing attention transgender subjects have drawn in recent years, specifically in relation to the representation of the transgender in the mass-media, the fields of television, theater and performance are relatively poorly theorized with respect to queer theory.

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