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From: ‘IMMIGRANTS WELCOME’ – 13 hours duration performance. A collaboration with Christopher Christ and Mana Timu.
Performance Arcade. (Wellington 2019)
Credits: John Conly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

‘The masculine presenting figure exudes an unabashed joy in his own vulnerability that is the antithesis of the toxic patriarchal fear that sharing, giving, or opening up space to others leaves one with less. The nationalistic xenophobic hetero-masculine structure regulates its borders as strictly as it does its anus.’ – Khristopher Khrist – <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘The masculine presenting figure exudes an unabashed joy in his own vulnerability that is the antithesis of the toxic patriarchal fear that sharing, giving, or opening up space to others leaves one with less. The nationalistic xenophobic hetero-masculine structure regulates […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[89,76,12,81,85,87,75,72,71,77,78,80,79,82,83,30,62,73,84,44,41,86,88,74],"class_list":["post-372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-festivals","tag-arcade2019","tag-borders","tag-community","tag-fear","tag-giving","tag-graffiti","tag-homophobia","tag-immigrants","tag-immigration","tag-ivanlupi","tag-khristopherkhrist","tag-longduration","tag-manatimu","tag-other","tag-otherness","tag-performance-art","tag-performance-artist","tag-queer","tag-sharing","tag-skin","tag-tattoo","tag-vulnerability","tag-wellington","tag-xenophobia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ivanlupi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/DSCF4782-2.jpg?fit=2000%2C1333&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8EPTR-60","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2262,"url":"https:\/\/ivanlupi.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/17\/salut\/","url_meta":{"origin":372,"position":0},"title":"‘SALUT’","author":"ivanlupi","date":"17th February 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Lupi personifies messages starkly, in ways which often remain marked indelibly on the artist's body and firmly in the memories of those who view them. 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