[N.B. I will not be in this show!]

Join Pecs Drag Kings as they perform masculinities far and wide, celebrating the hard and the soft, dissecting the toxic and challenging what MASC really is.

Fresh from their acclaimed performances of SEX SEX MEN MEN and Pecsmas, see Pecs in the unique environment of the Barbican Art Gallery.

Pecs Drag Kings is an all-female/non-binary theatre and cabaret company. We’ve been creating critically acclaimed shows for the LGBTQ+ community since 2013. Through drag king cabarets and theatre shows, we explore gender identities, politics & sexuality, to create cultural space for queer women, trans* & non-binary folk. Our shows are sexy, raucous and highly entertaining, using songs, dances and comedy to celebrate inclusivity, queerness & community. 

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More about the exhibition

Through the medium of film and photography, this major exhibition considers how masculinity has been coded, performed, and socially constructed from the 1960s to the present day.

Examining depictions of masculinity from behind the lens, the Barbican brings together the work of over 50 international artists, photographers and filmmakers including Laurie Anderson, Sunil Gupta, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Isaac Julien and Catherine Opie.

In the wake of #MeToo the image of masculinity has come into sharper focus, with ideas of toxic and fragile masculinity permeating today’s society. This exhibition charts the often complex and sometimes contradictory representations of masculinities, and how they have developed and evolved over time. Touching on themes including power, patriarchy, queer identity, female perceptions of men, hypermasculine stereotypes, tenderness and the family, the exhibition shows how central photography and film have been to the way masculinities are imagined and understood in contemporary culture.

Thu 20 Feb—Sun 17 May 2020

Sun-Wed 10am-6pm
Thu-Sat 10am-9pm