Join two-time Tony Award–winning artist John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch and currently starring in Oh, Mary! on Broadway) for an intimate talk examining the lives and work of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore—Surrealist artists, lifelong partners, and courageous resisters of Nazi occupation.

Blending personal reflection with performance excerpts from his in-development theatrical work LSM (the initials Cahun and Moore used to sign their letters), Mitchell invites audiences into the years-long research that has shaped his engagement with the pair. The program explores their radical approach to self-portraiture, authorship, and identity, and how their acts of resistance during World War II continue to resonate in contemporary conversations about art, gender, and power.

Mitchell will perform short excerpts from LSM, interwoven with his personal reflections on the rigor of his archival research and the artistic and emotional bond between the two women. He examines how they used image, text, and persona to destabilize fixed notions of identity, and how their creative lives became acts of political resistance.

Location

Pillsbury Auditorium

Cost

Free; tickets required