TRANS PRIDE SPECIAL

Published: Aug. 6, 2016, 9:25 a.m.

b"This episode was recorded at over Skype with Berlin based artist Yishay, who was commissioned to create a piece of public art, \\u2018Nothing About Us Without Us\\u2019 for the outside of the Marlborough Theatre during Trans Pride Brighton, 2016.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nWe talked about art and Trans Pride\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nAbout surrounding yourself with people who challenge you\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nAbout the systematic erasure of Trans Women from museum collections and galleries\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nAbout how not being killed is awesome.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nYou can follow yishay on twitter @yishaygarbasz\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nAnd you can keep up to date with Emma's movements through the None of Us is Yet a Robot project at\\xa0www.notyetarobot.co.uk\\xa0or @elbfrankland on twitter.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nOpening music was by Visitors and\\xa0Closing music by Se\\xf1or Coconut.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nYishay Garbasz is a Berlin-based British-Israeli artist, graduate of photography BA from Bard College in New York 2004 Her 2005 Watson Fellowship resulted in the first book project, In My Mother's Footsteps (Hatje Cantz, 2009), nominated for the German photo book prize award. This contemporary journey of the Holocaust retraces her mother's path of survival in lush large format photographs. Garbasz\\u2019s second project starkly documents her body a year before and after gender affirmation surgery shown in the flipbook Becoming (MBP, 2010) and installed in the second largest Zoetrope in the world (Busan Biennale 2010, Korea). Currently, she explores globally the impact of trauma on communities, including \\u201cRitual and Reality\\u201d, which documents the Fukushima nuclear exclusion zone, with fall-out reaching Tokyo\\n\\nGarbasz has exhibited widely in galleries, museums, around the world, including solo shows at Wako Works of Art (Tokyo), Ronald Feldman Fine Art (NY), Norderlicht Foto Festival (Holland), Chiang Mai Museum of Art (Thailand), and Tokyo Wonder Site (Japan); group shows at Museum of Fine Art Boston, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Korea), Stanley Picker Gallery (London), Dumbo Arts Center (NY) MOCA NOMI (FL). Garbasz\\u2019s work has also been featured in Artforum, the New York Times, and she was recently listed by the Huffington Post as one of Ten Transgender Artists Who Are Changing the Landscape of Contemporary Art.\\n\\nwww.yishay.com\\n\\nwww.feldmangallery.com\\xa0\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nSome things we mentioned in the conversation were:\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nLinks to:\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nTrans Pride Brighton, 2016"