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A performer was sitting inside the fenced garden of the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennial the other day, his emotionless face sniffed by two massive, intimidating Dobermans howling aggressively to anyone daring to come nearby. A moment later, another performer, tall and dressed in all black, climbed to the pavilion’s roof, in the pose of a tragic hero about to jump into the void.
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Sophie Mayer is the author of Political Animals: The New Feminist Cinema and The Cinema of Sally Potter: A Politics of Love. Her most recent poetry collections are (O) (2015) and kaolin, or How Did a Girl Like You Get to Be a Girl Like You (2015). She writes regularly about gender, sexuality and culture for Sight & Sound, The F-Word, Literal, the Verso blog, and elsewhere.
Sophie Mayer is the author of Political Animals: The New Feminist Cinema and The Cinema of Sally Potter: A Politics of Love. Her most recent poetry collections are (O) (2015) and kaolin, or How Did a Girl Like You Get to Be a Girl Like You (2015). She writes regularly about gender, sexuality and culture for Sight & Sound, The F-Word, Literal, the Verso blog, and elsewhere.
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