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Roma Body Politics III. –\u00a0Say No To Identity Theft<\/h1>\n

May 13 \u2013 June 19, 2015<\/h2>\n

Roma Body Politics<\/em> is an extensive and intercultural exhibition series and educational program aimed at exploring, documenting and making visible the Roma body politics in present-day Europe. The project, which was realized with the help of Roma artists and intellectuals, focuses on the depiction, representation and participation of Roma\u2013and especially Roma women\u2013in the media, art and public life. The mission of Gallery8 is the liberation of the Roma body\u2013and therefore the liberation of Roma people. Roma bodies are not described here as a way to objectify, re-shape or dis-figure Roma. Instead, the Roma body is the vehicle in this initiative for finding specific practices to \u201cre\/configurate diasporic gazes into subjects and to invite ourselves to be viewers; to uncover the colonial discourse inscribed in us and to depict it in exhibitions so that it is quasi disenchanted, to unmask the Western master-discourse asa historical legend\u201d<\/em>. (Peggy Piesche, cultural theorist)<\/p>\n

Delaine LeBas: Say No To Identity Theft<\/em><\/p>\n

Identity
\nIs the crisis can’t you see
\nIdentity, Identity
\nWhen you look in the mirror
\nDo you see yourself
\nDo you see yourself
\nOn the TV screen
\nDo you see yourself in the magazine
\nWhen you see yourself
\nDoes it make you scream
\nWhen you look in the mirror
\nDo you smash it quick
\nDo you take the glass
\nAnd slash you wrists
\nDid you do it for fame
\nDid you do it in a fit
\nDid you do it bef
\nore you read about it.<\/p>\n

(Identity<\/em> by X-Ray Spex, 1978)<\/p>\n

Say No To Identity Theft<\/em> is an ongoing artistic investigation and intervention by distinguished Roma contemporary artist, Delaine LeBas into what it means to be a female artist who is Roma in the 21st Century.<\/p>\n

“The lyrics from Identity have been an ongoing theme tune for my life since I first heard them in 1978, asa 13 year old, being sung by Polystyrene a truly individual artist who influenced me in the idea of how you could purely be yourself in what you looked like and sounded like, there was no need to conform. I could be who and what I was while at the same time looking and being how I wanted. This has consistently fired my artistic ventures ever since and continues to do so. We are stolen artefacts, physically, mentally, artistically. Even now in 2015 we are still seen and contextualised by everyone else but ourselves. How we are perceived by ‘others’ is still valued more important than how we see ourselves in the world view. We have been and continue to be stereotyped out of our own existence; our mere presence as human beings is a contested site. A colonialist way of seeing dominates the language that surrounds us and many others still, and continues to try and suppress us. Artistically across practice I continue to question this. My body as artefact, the object, the artistic site. A living sculpture. The works take place within the gallery setting and on the street.
\n<\/em>The multiplicity of my identity and my questioning of this is an ongoing everyday artistic unravelling of what it means to always to be seen by outside positions. Orientalism and it’s legacy still infiltrates ways of seeing and in order to be seen a different space needs to be created that refuses to speak in the language that has continued and allowed our bodies to be objectified, highly sexualised and stereotyped. I say no to Identity theft. I say no to who you think I am. I say no to what you think I should look like. The gaze that is put upon us is disrupted. The ‘passing’ of being white is played upon and the true historical legacy that continues to dominate our identity is exposed for the antiquated and exclusion based structure that it is. To question these structures that are based in ‘old fashioned’ ways of thinking and seeing is to question ideas of culture itself and who owns this in terms of visual representation, historical and academic documentation.”<\/em><\/p>\n

(Introduction for the Say No to Identity Theft<\/em>\u2013Exhibition at Gallery8, March, 2015.)<\/p>\n

Exhibiting artist: Delaine LeBas<\/p>\n

Curator: T\u00edmea Junghaus<\/p>\n

Venue: Gallery8 (1084 Budapest, M\u00e1ty\u00e1s t\u00e9r 13.)<\/p>\n

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Photo: Zolt\u00e1n Dragon \u00a9 OFF-Biennale Budapest archive<\/p><\/div>\n

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Photo: Zolt\u00e1n Dragon \u00a9 OFF-Biennale Budapest archive<\/p><\/div>\n

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