Voice, Performance, and Border Crossings: An Interview with Tobaron Waxman

Dominic Johnson is a senior lecturer in the Department of Drama at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture (2012) and Theatre and the Visual (2012). He is the editor of four books, including most recently Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey (2013) and Critical Live Art: Contemporary Histories of Performance in the UK (2013). He is associate editor of Contemporary Theatre, and in 2012 he guest-edited a special issue of the journal titled “Live Art in the UK.”

Tobaron Waxman is an artist and curator who sings. Tobaron's performances for a cappella transsexual voice, photography, installations, and videos have exhibited internationally. Tobaron is a research collaborator of the Canadian Consortium for Performance and Politics in the Americas, working to develop Towards a Trans Art History, a multilingual archive of transgender and transsexual performance art in the Americas. Tobaron founded and directs the Intergenerational LGBT Artist Residency as a combined curatorial, relational/live art, and sociopolitical praxis. Tobaron is the 2014 fellow at the Akademie der Künste der Welt in Cologne and a resident at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris for Spring 2015. Tobaron can be found at tobaron.com.