FADO is pleased to present Vancouver-based artist David Khang new performance, Phalogocentrix. Co-sponsored by Vtape and the Images Festival.

Phalogocentrix is a performance about language and the way it forms and informs our culture. Vancouver-based artist David Khang interrogates constructions and performativity of language that is at once gendered (phallocentric) and culturally specific (logocentric). Part calligraphy, part yoga, and part breakdancing, this syncretic ritual explores African and Asian cultural connectivities, within the theological context of a church. By bringing together traditional and contemporary cultural references, as well as trans-diasporic identities, this work is an attempt to further critical understanding of the relationships between race, gender, and language.

This performance was presented in FADO’s IDea series (2005–2007), curated by Paul Couillard.