Article ID: CBB410641240

Cosmetic Surgery as "Cut-Up": The Body and Gender in Breyer P-Orridge's Pandrogeny (2018)

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The Pandrogeny project was a collaboration between the artists Lady Jaye Breyer and Genesis P-Orridge that used cosmetic surgery, hormone therapy, cross-dressing, and altered behavior in an effort to merge their two separate identities into a third, singular "pandrogyneous" character called "Breyer P-Orridge." This essay critically explores the practices and theories that comprise the Pandrogeny project, contrasting its use of cosmetic surgery to ORLAN's pioneering Reincarnation of Saint-ORLAN performance art series. We argue that there is potential for performance artists to critique and interrogate the normative frameworks of gender, appearance, and embodiment that guide the cosmetic surgery industry. However, artists and patients both undergo surgery within these frameworks, and thus their outcomes are shaped by the limits of the cosmetic surgery industry.

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Authors & Contributors
Joanna Weidler-Lewis
Masha Raskolnikov
Michael Pfeiffer
Slagstad, Ketil
Anna Kłosowska
Alena Thiel
Concepts
Gender identity
Medicine and gender
Medicine and culture
Medicine and society
Gender
Medicine
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
19th century
Ancient
20th century, early
20th century
Places
United States
Oslo (Norway)
Ghana
England
Netherlands
Spain
Institutions
University of Oslo
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