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Tobaron Waxman (Tkaronto/ Lenapehoking) is an interdisciplinary artist and curator who sings. Tobaron uses a Jewish image vocabulary to grapple with questions of gender, nation and the state, as well as with questions of Semitic identity, migrancy and houselessness, and issues of border and embodiment, such as gender and racial passing. Tobaron sings chazzanus acapella, privately for the queer or abject in hospitals, at funerals and weddings when others would not; as well as publically in duet with the acoustics of architecture at historic sites of border conflict or ethnic cleansing. Developing theory on trans vocality, Tobaron has performed at Kampnagel Festival of Choreography and Protest Hamburg, Donau Festival, and Dixon Place NYC. Their works have been exhibited at such venues as Goethe Institute Mumbai, Videotage Hong Kong, Kunsthalle Vienna, New Museum NYC, Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music; and via fellowships at Van Lier, NYC; Akademie der Kunst der Welt, Köln; and Kulturlabor ICI Berlin Institute of Cultural Inquiry. Tobaron was bestowed the Franklin Furnace Performance Art Award in 2003, and in 2009 the inaugural Audience Award of Jewish Museum of New York for their endurance performance 'Opshernish', accessed by Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in 2022. Tobaron’s writing and photography have been published internationally, including Carte Blanche (Magenta, 2006), Post Porn Politics (bbooks, 2010), Fast Feminism (Autonomedia, 2010), Trans Bodies Trans Selves (Oxford University Press, 2014), Oxford Bibliographies, Missy, Canadian Theatre Review, Lillith, Women & Performance, TSQ. In 2013, Tobaron founded The Intergenerational LGBT Artist Residency, and since 2017 Tobaron has led the Trans Collections at The ArQuives, the largest independent LGBTQ+ archive in the world. Tobaron’s first album will bli neder be released in 2024, and in Yiddish.

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