Finissage HIJRA FANTASTIK with Kalki Subramaniam
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Finissage of HIJRA FANTASTIK by Claudia Reiche with Kalki Subramaniam, Coimbatore (India)
(in English)
The last day of the exhibition is a meeting with transgender artist, actor and activist Kalki Subramaniam, whose poetry and documents of activism are part of the exhibition. In conversation with curator and artist Claudia Reiche Kalki Subramaniam will talk about the Sahodari Foundation for transgender people she founded (www.sahodari.org), she will also talk about her poetry, and about her contributions in the fine arts as a painter, about how she combines art and activism, especially in the Trans/Hearts project (www.transhearts.org), encouraging transgender people to pursue art.
She will discuss the significance of the project for the community and talk about her multimedia activities, like acting in a major film (a hijra real life story), her work in videos of her poetry.