Tobaron Waxman
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Tobaron Waxman (born 1970) is a Canadian interdisciplinary artist, an accomplished filmmaker, curator, educator and singer. His work focuses on gender embodiment and the ways in which it intersects with society, and with religion specifically. He often employs themes of Jewish tradition, combining his heritage with his art.
His work involves the use of contemporary approaches including video installation, performance art, film, photography, and song. In 2015, Waxman spoke as a visiting scholar at the University of California, invited by the Beatrice Bain Research Group.[1] His work is recognized and exhibited at multiple museums, including the Jewish Museum and the New Museum, both located in New York. Waxman has received awards and grants by art councils including the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Toronto Arts Council.[2]
Early Life and Family[edit]
Waxman was born in Toronto to Sara and Al Waxman. His father, now deceased, made his name as a renowned Canadian actor. Before his passing, Al and Sara initiated the Neo-Natal Unit at the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem. Waxman's brother, Adam, was born in 1972. He now works as an executive editor for DINE magazine alongside his mother Sara, who is editor in chief.[3]
Education[edit]
Waxman did course work in integrated media at the Ontario College of Art and Design between 1995 and 1998. He also completed a B.A. in Humanities at the University of Toronto in 1998.[2] He received his M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2014.[4] Most recently, he studied traditional Jewish liturgy, music and vocal techniques in various Orthodox Yeshivas spanning from 2003 to 2007.[4]
Career[edit]
Through his work, Waxman explores the way in which privileged ideals affect embodiment.[4] He uses lens-based media in order to deconstruct the social implications of his own status, by linking gender identity to Jewish tradition.[5]
Waxman has taught courses in video, performance art, history and photography at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the School of Art Institute of Chicago, the University of London and the University of California.[1]
His credibility is notable, as many of his works have been discussed in academic papers and dissertations. Jordy Jones makes reference to Waxman's 'Opshernish' performance in his dissertation on "The Ambiguous I: Photography, Gender, Self". Jones refers to the body as political grounds for social change, and cites Waxman's work as successfully blurring the lines of tradition, and redirecting focus on new and relevant issues surrounding embodiment.[6]
Waxman's academic credibility is further established in an article by Carol Zemel, an associate professor of Art History and Visual Culture at York University, who references the symbolic significance of his work, crediting his ability to dismantle cultural standards.[5] She, and other scholars, including George Doran, have described his art as challenging fixed notions of gender, religion and space.[7]
In 2013, Waxman founded the world's first Intergenerational LGBT Artist Residency. The aim of the residency is to enhance LGBT community building through shared experience. The residency combines curatorial, relational/life art, and sociopolitical praxis.[8]
Filmography[edit]
- Grrrl (2013) (cinematographer)
- The Red Window (1997) (actor)
Video Screenings/Projection Art[2][edit]
| Year | Occasion/Venue | Title/Name |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Smack Melon 20th Anniversary | Still Life: Israel Eats Itself |
| 2014 | National Queer Arts Festival, San Francisco | how long has it been |
| 2011 | 'Queering Sex' | how long has it been |
| 2009 | Tekfestival | True Spirit |
| 2009 | 'Brooklyn is Burning' | transgenred anagram |
| 2009 | Artneuland, Berlin | Still Life: Israel Eats Itself |
| 2008 | MIX NYC, 21st Annual Experimental Film Festival | Still Life: Israel Eats Itself |
| 2008 | Vidance International Video Dance Festival, Tel Aviv | Still Life: Israel Eats Itself |
| 2008 | Neutral Ground, Regina, SK | transgenred anagram |
| 2008 | Neutral Ground, Regina, SK | Peytach Eynayim |
| 2007 | Vidance International Video Dance Festival, Tel Aviv | Techiat ha Metim |
| 2007 | Form+Content Gallery, Minneapolis, MN | trans.genred.anagram |
| 2006 | Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, WI | 'Techiat ha Metim' |
| 2003 | Lesbian Film Festival Berlin | True Spirit |
| 2003 | Lesbian Film Festival Berlin | how long has it been |
| 2003 | Chicago Leather Archives | how long has it been |
| 2002 | Community Centre Project | how long has it been |
| 2002 | Tongue-n-Cheeks Collective | self-portrait #1: Reverence |
| 2002 | New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film and Video Festival | self-portrait #1: Reverence |
| 2002 | Transcinema02 Festival of Expanded Cinema | |
| 2001 | Links Hall in 'Performing the Problematic' | how long has it been |
| 1995 | The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto | self-portrait #1: Reverence |
Performance Art[2][edit]
| Year | Event/Venue | Location | Title/Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Kampnagel Festival of Choreography and Protest/hamamness | Hamburg, Germany | 'The 71st FACE' |
| 2015 | St. Gertrude's Church | Cologne, Germany | 'Singing with Architecture: Cologne' |
| 2014 | NU Festival of Performance | Tallinn, Estonia | guest soloist, 'Chicks on Speed' |
| 2014 | Gorki Theatre | Berlin | guest soloist, 'Tsu Libe Beylen' |
| 2014 | Cattle Depot Artist Commune | Chinese University of Hong Kong | 'The 71st FACE' |
| 2014 | Donau Festival | Austria | guest soloist 'Marriage to the Soil' |
| 2013 | New Museum | New York City | curator, 'NEA 4 In Residence: Performing Beyond Funding Limits' |
| 2012 | Lentos Museum | Austria | 'The 71st FACE' |
| 2012 | Dixon Place | New York City | 'The Diary of Ponim71' |
| 2012 | Dixon Place | New York City | 'Singing with Architecture: Cologne' |
| 2010 | Kulturlabor ICI Berlin | Berlin | 'Mechitza 7.1' |
| 2010 | Kulturlabor ICI Berlin | Berlin | voice performance, 'Overscore' |
| 2010 | Palais de Tokio | Paris | 'GenderfluXXXors UnCoded' |
| 2009 | Sonic Art Radio | Copenhagen | invited artist |
| 2009 | Harvestworks SoHo Night | New York City | 'Block of ice +1/60' |
| 2008 | Queer City Cinema Biennial International Media Arts Festival | Regina | 'Iechem oni/prusa' |
| 2008 | International Electroacoustic Music Festival Conservatory of Music | Brooklyn College | 'Still Life: Israel eats itself' |
| 2008 | Buddies in Bad Times Theatre | Toronto | "Still Life: 'Israel eats itself' |
| 2008 | Peacock Visual Art Centre | Aberdeen | 'Block of ice + 1/60' |
| 2002 | Chicago Athaneum | Chicago | "Mercy" chorus, Meredith Monk |
Installation/Photography[2][edit]
| Year | Venue | Title/Name | Curator/Organizer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, NY | 'Irreverent: A Celebration of Censorship' | Jennifer Tyburczy & Leslie Lohman |
| 2015 | La Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris | '(Up)rooted: A prospect on today's Northern Culture' | Charles Garcin |
| 2014 | Momenta Art, Brookkyn | 'Nu Age Huste' | Katie Cercone |
| 2013 | Stamp Gallery, Maryland | 'Queer Objectivity' (group exhibition) | Kris Grey |
| 2013 | Lentos Museum, Vienna | 'Vollmilch - The beard as signifier' | Thomas Edlinger |
| 2012 | AIR Gallery, Brooklyn | 'Illegitimate and Herstorical' | Emily Roysdon |
| 2009 | Jewish Museum, NY (& Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco) | 'Reinventing Ritual: Contemporary Art and Design for Jewish Life | Daniel Belasco |
| 2009 | Diaspora, NYC | 'Dark Room/Homme Made' | Avi Feldman & Daneyal Mahmood |
| 2008 | The Project, NY | 'The Left Hand of Darkness' | Salvia Jasso & Yasmin Dubois |
| 2006 | CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY | 'Deviant Bodies 2.0' | Lawrence Brosse |
Awards/Residencies[2][edit]
| Year | Group/Council | Award/Residencies |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Sante Fe Art Institute | 'Immigration/Emigration' thematic residency |
| 2015 | Beatrice Bain Research Group | visiting scholar |
| 2015 | Canada Council for the Arts, Visual Arts | Paris Residency, La Cite Internationale de Arts |
| 2014 | Ontario Arts Council | "The 2014 Intergenerational LGBT Artist Residency" |
| 2014 | Canada Council for the Arts | Visual Arts: "Chimera Project" |
| 2013 | Ontario Arts Council | Curatorial/Research Grant |
| 2013 | New Museum | NEA 4 Performing Beyond Limits |
| 2011 | Smack Mellon | Studio Artist Fellowship |
| 2010 | BRIC Rotunda Gallery, BCAT Media Centre | BRIC Media Fellowship |
| 2010 | Jewish Museum | Audience Award for "Opshernish" |
| 2010 | Toronto Arts Council | Fine Arts Division |
| 2008 | Toronto Arts Council | Grant |
| 2008 | Henry Moore Foundation for Sculpture | "Block of Ice + 1/60" |
| 2007 | Harvestworks | Van Lier Residency |
| 2006 | ACO Art and Culture Outreach | Artist Residency |
| 2006 | Canada Council for Art | Grant |
| 2005 | Canada Council for Art | Grant |
| 2005 | Paved New Media | New Media Artist Residency |
| 2004 | Atlantic Centre for the Arts | Associate Artist |
| 2004 | Canada Council for Art | Grant |
| 2003 | Experimental Television Centre | Recognition |
| 2003 | Franklin Furnace | Performance Art Award |
See also[edit]
- Bell, Shannon. & Noam Gonick, (eds) "Tobaron Waxman's Post Queer Pallette," Canadian Dimension Magazine, May 2009.
- "Diaspora in Permanenz," featured artist interview, StadtRevue Koln, 2014.
- Hauser, Reine. "Body of Work," Afterimage Magazine, 2007.
- Jacobs, Katrien. "Tobaron Waxman: GenderFluXXors Uncoded," Hong Kong SexxxChange, 2006.
- Nahmod, D.A., "Open, Affirming and Diverse," Bay Area Report, 2010.
- Nuit, Banai, "The Left Hand of Darkness," Time Out New York, Issue 671, 2008.
- Palmieri, Francesco. "A right to the City/Trans in the Landscape", 2012. http://www.prettyqueer.com/2012.06/08/right-to-the-city-trans-in-the-landscape/
- Steinbock, E.A., "Shimmering: Towards a Trans-Erotic Film Aesthetic," (diss), Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam, 2011.
- Vaughan, R.M., "Shows that Rocked, Shocked, and Taught: Tobaron Waxman Gender Diasporist," featured artist interview, C Magazine, June 2012.
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "The Diary of Ponim71". Beatrice Bain Research Group. University of California, Berkeley. Aug 19, 2015. Retrieved Nov 3, 2016.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 "Texts". Tobaron Waxman. Retrieved October 5, 2016.
- ↑ Stratas, William (2016). "About". DINE Magazine. PPI Inc.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Holzhey, Christophe. "Mechitza 7.1: Performance by Tobaron Waxman with Jesse Zaritt and James Hurley". ICI Berlin. Kulturlabor Institute for Cultural Inquiry. Retrieved October 5, 2016.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Zemel, Carol (Winter 2013). "In the Mosaic: Jewish Identities in Canadian Performance and Installation Art". Canadian Theatre Review. 153 (153): 13–19. doi:10.3138/CTR.153.003.
- ↑ Jones, Jordy (2008). "The Ambiguous I: Photography, Gender, Self". University of California. 293.
- ↑ Doran, George (2014). "Negotiating the Spectacle in Transgender Performances of Alexis Arquette, Zachary Drucker, DavEnd, niv Acosta, and Tobaron Waxman". Transgender Studies Quarterly. 1 (1–2): 273–279. doi:10.1215/23289252-2400244.
- ↑ "New: Intergenerational LGBT Artist Residency on Toronto Island". Artscape. Retrieved October 5, 2016.
External links[edit]
- http://www.tobaron.com
- http://www.shawnsyms.com/content/pdf/Gender_Diasporist-Shawn_Syms_Interviews_Tobaron_Waxman.pdf
- http://www.experimentaltvcenter.org/tobaron-waxman
- http://www.torontoartscape.org/news/new-intergenerational-lgbt-artist-residency-toronto-island
- https://www.facebook.com/ILGBTArtistResidency
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