Olivia Hyunsin Kim/ddanddarakim: Mr. Yellow

In the organizer's words:

Opera, drag, K-pop and personal stories interweave in Mr. Yellow to create a multi-layered queer cabaret performance about images, fantasies and projections that shape Asian read masculinity to this day.

The dance performance examines colonial, racist and gender-specific stereotypes and asks how the figure of "yellow" masculinity has been constructed historically - and what new, empowering narratives are possible today. Humorous and critical, colonial images of desexualized, effeminized Asian men from historical contexts meet current pop-cultural references such as K-pop and the global "manosphere".

The international team - including drag artist Vivienne Lovecraft and trans tenor Holden Madagame (USA) - works in a queer-feminist, post-colonial and interdisciplinary way between cabaret, concert and performative research.

Why does Asian read masculinity often remain invisible or distorted in European images, stories and stages to this day? Which historical fantasies - such as the fearful figure of the "Yellow Peril" - continue to have an effect? And what happens when pop cultures such as K-pop make new forms of masculinity visible?