Un/Masking: Reflections on a Transformative Process

by Bethan Hughes, Laurette Burgholzer, Judith Kemp

This volume focuses on the process of un/masking rather than on the object of the mask, and highlights the performative aspects that render masks catalysts of transition and transformation. Through its ability to simultaneously hide and reveal, the act of un/masking has the power to destabilize supposedly fixed identities and to blur the lines between the self and the other, the visible and the invisible, life and death. In this sense, masks are ambiguous,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3958083331
• ISBN13: 9783958083332
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Neofelis
• Length: 290 Pages