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Fog machines and colonial ghosts: Queerness as an aesthetic principle
Queerness, a power-critical version of diversity, arouses interest in difference. This proves to be far more complex than categorization or either/or decisions suggest. Difference comes across as intersectional and in various modes (ambiguous, multifaceted, ambivalent, unique, abject...). What does this mean in terms of aesthetic forms? To what extent do queer artistic practices convey an impression of queerness? And what political potential does this hold?
In dialogue with Glass is my Skin, an installation by Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz (Cristal Palace, Madrid 2022), which was accompanied by a live performance by Aérea Negrot, the lecture deals with queer aesthetics and queerness as an aesthetic principle. How—and why—do we invent or enjoy artistic practices that disrupt the desire for simple identities and binary oppositions? What do we gain when we develop a taste for complexity and confusion? Can queerness counteract the violence of normality and the persistence of colonial and heteropatriarchal domination?
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Antke A. Engel
Antke A. Engel (xi/xens, PhD) heads the iQt – Institut für Queer Theory in Berlin, works as a freelancer and visiting professor in academia and cultural production, and is a philosophical activist promoting the concept of queer diversity. Xi has long been involved in writing and curating in the field of queer art and visual culture. In addition to numerous other publications, Xi has just published the book Queer Theory – Queer Pedagogy: An Introduction (in German, BeltzJuventa 2024).
feministischer salon basel
By and with
Katha Baur, Caroline Faust, Franca Schaad und Franziska Schutzbach
Co-production
Kaserne Basel
Support
Christoph Merian Stiftung
