What meaning can we derive from playing with identities, creating alter egos or stepping into someone else’s shoes? How do ideas like gender, culture or profession shape who we are?

This workshop seeks to equip its participants with key concepts from feminist, gender and queer theory, allowing them to analyse and understand art from a new perspective.

The activity is composed of three sessions: a theoretical and interactive; a visit of Antin’s exhibition that will allow us to apply the tools we learned in the first part; and a practical exploration of representation and expression of identity through the medium of collage.

Together, these three sessions will allow us to delve into a variety of questions about our gendered existences, experiences and expressions. What are the different channels we can access to perform different parts of our identities? What is the role of art in this process?

We will learn that gender and other systems of social hierarchy are everywhere, conditioning the ways in which we interpret and experience the world around us. Art then acts as a strategy that not only reflects social reality, but plays a part in building it as well. This opens up a space for creative explorations and imaginings of different, more just futures.

This workshop is part of the series ‘Performing identities’. While it is not mandatory, it is recommended to take part in all three sessions. The two other sessions take place on 30.11.2025 and 07.12.2025.

Biographies: 

Gabrielle Antar (she/her) is a Luxembourgish-Lebanese writer who has spent most of her life in Lebanon. She holds a bachelor’s degree in political studies and a master’s degree in gender studies. Her academic work focused on drag performance as a form of resistance in Lebanon, exploring how queerness can be a powerful tool for imagining and creating social change. Her work is grounded in a transnational, decolonial and queer feminist perspective. Before becoming more involved in grassroots collectives in Luxembourg, Gabrielle worked as a journalist. Today, her practice sits at the intersection of creativity and activism. Through writing, poetry and multidisciplinary expression, she seeks to provoke critical thought and political awareness. Guided by the belief that both the personal and the communal are political, she founded déi aner, an alternative media platform that creates space for critical dialogue, uplifts underrepresented voices and supports a more just, creative and community-driven cultural landscape in Luxembourg.

Ella Chambers holds an undergraduate degree in social anthropology and a master’s degree in gender studies. She is currently working as the project manager of Luxembourg’s feminist library CID Fraen an Gender. In this role and throughout her studies, she has gathered significant expertise on national and international gender politics. Her academic work explores ways in which social, political and economic contexts influence sex and sexuality. Most recently this has resulted in a study of anti-gender discourse and its opponents in Luxembourg, especially their vision of the nation-state. Looking to translate theoretical knowledge into concrete action and to make it more accessible, she organises workshops, discussion roundtables and engages in journalistic writing. She is also one of the hosts of the Luxembourgish sex education radio show and podcast Méi Wéi Sex. Her work in that context is guided by the strong belief that comprehensive, intersectional sex education is a requirement for a society based in social justice.