Workshop Series: Performing identities

With:

Gabrielle Antar & Ella Chambers (16.11.2025) 

Raphaël Adams (30.11.2025) 

X0x0 (07.12.2025) 

Framework: Eleanor Antin: A Retrospective

Language: EN

Access: 10€ 

Free for Students / KULTURPASS

Booking required:

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What meaning can we derive from playing with identities, creating alter egos or stepping into someone else’s shoes? How do ideas like gender, culture or profession shape who we are?

Artist Eleanor Antin often transformed herself into characters – of other genders or from different backgrounds, times or places – to question these very boundaries. Drawing inspiration from her work, Mudam invites you to join a series of three workshops where you can reflect on identity and experiment with new ways of expressing yourself, while also rediscovering ways of relating to one another.

Guided by three facilitators with a diversity of backgrounds and perspectives, each session will address a specific theme:

• Session 1: An introduction to gender studies and feminist strategies.
• Session 2: How performance and theatricality can help us imagine new stories about our sense of self.
• Session 3: A drag performer will guide you in creating an alter ego, allowing you to discover another side of your voice and identity through alterity.

Each workshop lasts two hours and takes place in the Mudam Studio. Sessions begin with a short introduction to the theme, followed by a visit to the exhibition to connect these ideas with Antin’s work. Back in the Studio, participants will explore practical exercises – individually and as a group – to bring these reflections into their own experience.

You can join one or more sessions, but we recommend following the full series for a more complete experience.

Biographies:

Gabrielle Antar (she/her) is a Luxembourgish-Lebanese writer who has spent most of her life in Lebanon. She holds a bachelor’s degree in political studies and a master’s degree in gender studies. Her academic work focused on drag performance as a form of resistance in Lebanon, exploring how queerness can be a powerful tool for imagining and creating social change. Her work is grounded in a transnational, decolonial and queer feminist perspective. Before becoming more involved in grassroots collectives in Luxembourg, Gabrielle worked as a journalist. Today, her practice sits at the intersection of creativity and activism. Through writing, poetry and multidisciplinary expression, she seeks to provoke critical thought and deepen political awareness. Guided by the belief that both the personal and the communal are political, she founded déi aner, an alternative media platform that creates space for critical dialogue, uplifts underrepresented voices and supports a more just, creative and community-driven cultural landscape in Luxembourg.

Ella Chambers holds an undergraduate degree in social anthropology and a master’s degree in gender studies. She is currently working as the project manager of Luxembourg’s feminist library CID Fraen an Gender. In this role and throughout her studies, she has gathered significant expertise on national and international gender politics. Her academic work is primarily an exploration of the ways in which social, political and economic contexts influence sex and sexuality. Most recently this has resulted in a study of anti-gender discourse and its opponents in Luxembourg and the particular visions they conjure. Looking to translate theoretical knowledge into concrete action and to make it more accessible, she organises workshops, discussion roundtables and engages in journalistic writing. She is also one of the hosts of the Luxembourgish sex education radio show and podcast ‘Méi Wéi Sex’. Her work in that context is guided by the strong belief that comprehensive, intersectional sex education is a requirement for a society based in social justice.

Raphaël Adams is a theatre maker, performance artist and director who experiments with the boundaries between audience and performers. He uses audience interaction and queer performance to invite reflections on what love and intimacy mean in neoliberal society and is keen on researching and finding various paths for community-building in an increasingly isolating world. Adams has worked with multiple organisations in Ireland (Galway Theatre Festival, Macnas, Druid, Baboró, Dublin Fringe) and Luxembourg (Kulturfabrik, neimënster). He directed Yaqui and Béal (GTF24), a collaborative theatre piece exploring the similarities between Native American and Irish cultures and histories. He also conceptualised the audience-interactive piece Gulliver in Love (Druid FUEL residency), a radical queer reimagining of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. More recently, he investigated contemporary perceptions of masculine identity by repurposing Greek mythology in Olympus Has But Snow(co-creation with Cuisle Productions, research residency at neimënster).

x0x0 is a drag king artist born from an artistic and identity-driven journey that began three years ago. Trained in fine arts, x0x0 engages in a research-based approach focused on gender, performance and representations of masculinity. After exploring drag queen codes, he shifted toward king performance, discovering his non-binary identity through these experiments. Today, x0x0 moves between the image of a gogo dancer and a gym coach, playing with masculine stereotypes and gendered postures. Influenced by pop culture, queer codes and practices of deconstruction, x0x0 uses the stage as a laboratory to manipulate gender expressions. He advocates for a radically open vision of drag: a space where anyone can claim, twist and reinvent the codes. Women can be queens, men can be kings, non-binary people have their whole place and many other forms of drag exist between and beyond these categories. Through this vision, drag becomes a space for disruption, experimentation and emancipation.