caa a22 4500 388109408 CHVBK 20180307125349.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1999 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0307883300019106 doi S0307883300019106 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0307883300019106 Tonooka Naomi Desire and Sexual (In)difference: Constructing Lesbian Self in Tari Ito's Performance with the Skin [Elektronische Daten] [Naomi Tonooka] Tari Ito is so far the only ‘out' lesbian performance artist in Japan. After performing as a pantomime artist in Tokyo and Holland for ten years, she began her series of solo performances in 1989. In 1996, she ‘came out' as a lesbian, in a performance entitled Self-Portrait. In her performances Ito makes various uses of a latex ‘skin' which she uses to create an interface between discursive practices and desire, revealing the constructedness of our desire and sexuality. Along with this skin, Ito's verbal assertion of her lesbian identity at the end of the otherwise non-verbal Self-Portrait unsettles a heterosexual reading of her performances that would assume the construction of desire and sexuality in terms of heterosexuality. Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 1999 Theatre Research International Cambridge University Press 24/3(1999), 254-258 0307-8833 24:3<254 1999 24 TRI https://doi.org/10.1017/S0307883300019106 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0307883300019106 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Tonooka Naomi NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Theatre Research International Cambridge University Press 24/3(1999), 254-258 0307-8833 24:3<254 1999 24 TRI CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge