{"id":1405,"date":"2022-01-12T17:04:04","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T17:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marianorrman.net\/?page_id=1405"},"modified":"2024-11-08T14:47:01","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T14:47:01","slug":"millennium-stars-10-year-retrospective","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marianorrman.net\/?page_id=1405","title":{"rendered":"Millennium Star’s 10 Year Retrospective, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Millennium Star at Lorensborg<\/em>
Polycanvas, 416 x 225 cm -163 x 88 inches, 2020<\/em>
Millennium Star Lip Syncs For Their Life
Video documentation of performance, 2019<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Millennium Star’s 10 Year Retrospective<\/strong>
Galleri CC, Malm\u00f6, Sweden
14-16 Januari 2022<\/a><\/em>

This retrospective show works starting from the creation of Maria Norrman’s drag character, The World\u00a0Renown Millennium Star in 2012 up to present time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many years before Norrman heard of RuPauls Drag Race<\/em>and terms like \u201cfaux queen\u201d (cis women who do feminine drag) she asked herself what would happen if a female bodied person was made into a drag queen?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen to that person’s sense of gender and identity, and how would their surroundings react? Norrman decided to give a drag artist the task of making her into a drag queen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus Millennium Star was created, a character which allowed her to, step by step, perform in different settings and places where Norrman wouldn\u2019t dare, or want, to put herself. Millennium Star allows her to explore an existence on the side of the gender binary, where a more fluid state can exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Millennium Stars Outfits for Lorensborg<\/em>
Photos, 16 x 12 cm\/ 6 x 4,7 in (10 st)<\/em>
2019<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Millennium is a displaced diva. Something is always slightly off in their performances, as in having a drag performance happen on that certain site or, with the performance itself. Such as the performances done under the umbrella of Gallery Extra, which brought Millennium to do a glittery lip sync performance at the almost empty Lorensborg shopping center in Malm\u00f6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Millennium Star is, and has been, many things: a music historian who lip syncs to songs by past queer icons from the 1940s, like Karl Gerhard and Ulla Billquist. They\u2019ve acted as an environmental cleanser, dressed in marine debris and picking litter around the Vege river in Scania, while singing the praises of seaside life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Millennium Star is sometimes met with the stark reality of gender non-conformists, like when they walked in the outskirts of Copenhagen in drag, sensing how gazes transformed from appreciative to questioning and hostile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Millennium Star started as, and still is, a way for Norrman to express herself, using femininity as a style. A style and expression we\u2019re taught to shun and turn away from in order to be taken seriously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The retrospective show video work, documentation from performances and polycanvas wall images, along with photos of Millennium\u2019s costume design and memorabilia from past events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the first time Millennium Star\u2019s entire body of work is shown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Millennium Stars Outfits for Lorensborg, <\/em>
print , 70 x 30 cm, 27 x 11,8 in, 2019<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n


Maria Norrman<\/strong> (SE) is a visual artist who mainly works with video and photography, in combination with performance and costume making. Norrman often use herself and different characters in her work which allows her to put her appearance and gender expressions in relation to the participants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The works explore the meeting between hers and other peoples fantasies and topics such as history, gender and sexuality. Her methods often consists of different types of role play, where body, clothing and identities are central starting points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Norrman<\/strong> was born in 1987 and received her MFA from Malm\u00f6 Art Academy in 2013.
She\u2019s been a member of Galleri CC since 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Millennium Star costumes<\/em>

Millennium Star – Timeline<\/em>
Photos and memorabilia, 2022<\/em>

Millennium Star at Sydhavn Station
Documentation of performance, 2020<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Millennium Star’s 10 Year RetrospectiveGalleri CC, Malm\u00f6, Sweden14-16 Januari 2022 This retrospective show works starting from the creation of Maria Norrman’s drag character, The World\u00a0Renown Millennium Star in 2012 up to present time. Many years before Norrman heard of RuPauls Drag Raceand terms like \u201cfaux queen\u201d (cis women who do feminine drag) she asked herself what… Fortsett \u00e5 lese Millennium Star’s 10 Year Retrospective, 2022<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":252,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1405","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marianorrman.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marianorrman.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marianorrman.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marianorrman.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marianorrman.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/marianorrman.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2014,"href":"https:\/\/marianorrman.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1405\/revisions\/2014"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marianorrman.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marianorrman.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}