Fly, Robin, Fly Castrate singers, dissonant voices and queer studies /French

Fly, Robin, Fly: castrato singers, voices & gender politics brings together various texts and essays which take as their starting point the almost figure mythical castrato singer in order to approach different subjects specific to studies gender and feminist studies. \n \nON THE FRONT \nThe texts address several themes intersecting the history of castrato singers, and by extension of cross-dressing in opera, where others approach the subject in a more broad and questions feminism as a "castrating" element, violence against queer and/or non-gendered bodies. The book also includes texts by fiction from different eras in order to generate a trans-historical connivance voices. \n \nThe textual part of the book brings together the texts of the authors: Nils Alix-Tabeling, Daria de Beauvais, Damien Delille, Nahema Hanafi, Caroline Honorien, James Horton, Raphaëlle Legrand, Laure Mathieu-Hanen and Vernon Lee. \n \nArtist Lisa Schitulli created a portrait for each of the eight figures considered here as a marker of “queer thoughts”. \n \nON THE BACK \nThe The second part of the book consists of visuals from the archives of the eponymous exhibition held in the exhibition spaces of Mécènes du South in spring 2021. This exhibition offered a reading of the history of castrato singers from a selection of works by the artists: Mélissa Airaudi, Nils Alix-Tabeling, Mark Barker, Vanessa Disler, Justin Fitzpatrick, Namio Harukawa, Tiziana La Melia, Marie Lassnig, Marie Legros, Laure Mathieu-Hanen, Tai Shani and Alison Yip. \n \nThe images from the exhibition are accompanied by a text by Matthew McLean which offers a personal reading of the exhibition as a form of archive of the project.