Biographie
Holly Timpener is a Queer, non-binary performance artist working in-depth with themes of Queer resistance and transformation. They use performance to challenge and understand their place in this world while investigating how Queer people and communities are connected. Performance allows them to confront issues related to gender, intimacy, trauma, and the body by engaging themes of trust, power, control, and resistance. Timpener approaches themes from a personal perspective and with research collected from within Queer communities. One-on-one performances allow them to receive stories and experiences of other Queer folks, which they reflect on and respond to through their performance works.
Timpener is currently investigating internal transformations in durational performance art and its relationship to non-binary and transgender identities. They are interested in finding an embodied language wherein discourses surrounding internal transformations, and their connection to non-binary and transgender identity can emerge. They believe it is within the embodiment of affectual transformation that Queer resistance is created through performative action.
Balancing their personal experience, knowledge, and memories with insight gained through Queer community research, Timpener embodies “The Personal Is Political” in a modern sociopolitical context. Within their works, they claim ownership of their own body and reflect on the lived and intermingled experiences of being Queer. Timpener’s work communicates identity, sexuality, gender, and community and creates strong images that transmute the space, public, and themself into a new awareness.