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DRAG KING. IL SOGNO DI JULIA.

Kyrahm and Julia Pietrangeli (aka Julius Kaiser)
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DRAG KING. IL SOGNO DI JULIA.

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A long time ago, there were three kinds of human beings: male, female and androgynous. As they were powerful and threatening to scale the heavens, Zeus devised to cut them into two ‘like a sorb-apple halved for pickling’ and even threatened to cut them into two again, so that they might hop on one leg. Ever since then human beings longed for their other half so much that once found they restore their ancient perfection. – Aristophanes in Plato’s “Symposium”. Those who escaped the wrath of the Gods are not spared from the anxiety of research: Brutus at night, Julia at day, fragile and tenacious, reveals in front of the mirror that s/he does not know where this journey will take. Proud lesbian activist s/he’s one of the first Drag Kings in Italy.

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With Julia Pietrangeli (Julius Kaiser). Written by Gianluca Nicoletti, Claudio Del Signore and Julia Pietrangeli. Directed, filmed and edited by Claudio Del Signore Courtesy the artist.

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Kyrahm and Julia Pietrangeli (aka Julius Kaiser)

Kyrahm and Julia Pietrangeli (aka Julius Kaiser) are an artist duo based in Rome, with individual expertise in visual and performance art, video art, film and LGTB activism.

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