For the Record: Performing Gender will examine gender roles and feminist positions in popular music videos. Iconic videos of Madonna and Prince, as well as recent releases of Janelle Monáe, M.I.A and Sevdaliza, will form the basis for a debate on the articulation of gender through the cinematographic gaze and the performing body. The evening will be moderated by radio-dj, reporter and host Shay Kreuger.

With Eliza Steinbock (Assistant Professor of Cultural Analysis at Leiden University) and Emmanuel Adjei (film director and visual artist).

This evening is part of For the Record, a research project on the technologies, spatial design and forms of representation in contemporary video culture. The event will take the form of a public recording studio, visualizing the forms production and postproduction that are deployed in video and that shape our mediated realities.