Liz Rosenfeld & Melanie Jame Wolf

REVISITED (IS IT "SAFE?")
Liz Rosenfeld + Melanie Jame Wolf

REVISITED (IS IT "SAFE?") draws inspiration from the 1995 film SAFE written and directed by Todd Haynes, and its leading lady Carol as the ultimate archetype of upper middle class white female fragility. This performance further queers the film by turning to the fetishized figure of the fag hag. The performers explore a simultaneously in/visible queer historical figure and how it has been weaponized by homonationalist ideologies that have shape-shifted this stereotype: from tragic hanger-on to camp confidante and through debates about power, fetishization, and how allyship persists.

Liz Rosenfeld is a London/ Berlin based interdisciplinary artist and educator who works with performance, moving images, drawing and experimental writing practices. Liz addresses the sustainability of emotional and political ecologies, cruising methodologies, past and future histories in regard to the ways in which memory is queered. 

Melanie Jame Wolf works solo and with friends to make artworks, performances, and texts about power, persona, and the phenomenon of ‘show business’: the liminal, the persuasive, the deceptive, the staged, and the performed in political, theatrical, and every day contexts. Moving across choreography, performance, text, moving image, sculpture and installation, she makes work for theater, gallery and screen spaces.