Are You A Boy Or A Girl?

Are You A Boy Or A Girl? (clip), Chaz Howkins, 2017, film

3 minute clip of a 30 minute film intended to be played on a loop.

Too often strangers feel that the way I look gives them the right to ask me “are you a boy or a girl?”.  I created a durational performance film of myself repeating this phrase because when people ask me this, it’s a one off experience for them, but it’s something that stays with me and continues to happen, so the idea is that the film plays continuously and the audience will dip in and out of this interrogative experience.

Talking Genders Exhibition

Myself with my film installation: Are You A Boy Or A Girl? Chaz Howkins, 2017, film

Talking Genders Exhibition was a part of And What? Queer Arts Festival - a London based festival which showcases the work of LGBTQ+ artists.  Talking Genders Project involved myself and 12 other young queer artists being chosen to take part in a 3 week intensive artistic development programme.  The programme consisted of guest artist workshops and artistic mentoring by the Himherandit team, working towards creating an artwork for this exhibition.  The exhibition intended to act as an empowering space and give visibility to diverse perspectives of young LGBTQ+ artists.  I found this programme and exhibition to be an incredibly valuable experience and am very grateful to have been made a part of it.

Photography Workshop

Loughborough Fair, Chaz Howkins, 2015, photograph

Loughborough Fair Horse, Chaz Howkins, 2015, photograph

Shattered Mirror, Chaz Howkins, 2015, photograph

These were my most successful images from the first two weeks of the photography workshop in which we exposed, developed and enlarged images from 35mm film.