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FaVU-2FQIAcad. year: 2026/2027
The material that has been chosen for the course focuses on the older period of feminism and queer visuality – 1980s and 1990s – and looks at two different sections. Within feminist (and queer feminist) art discourse, it focuses on issues of representation or the lack thereof in the curatorial strategies of dominant art institutions and curatorial narratives, on the issue of the erotic sovereignty of representation in the polemic against the critique of the objectification and sexualization of women's and queer bodies, or on the issue of activist approaches in art (and the risk of their historicization and inclusion in major art institutions and narratives). In the second section of the course, students will be introduced to some of the seminal film works made by queer artists, whether in the 1990s or at the turn of the millennium as part of the so-called New Queer Cinema movement, or older works made in the 1970s by, for example, John Waters or Ulrike Ottinger.
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Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Students will be assessed (non-letter grade) on submitting the reading and writing tasks and active participation in the seminar + attendance (by the end of the semester at the latest, all assignments must be handed in).
Some tasks will be individual, other will consist of team work. We will try to asses each other on the basis of our team work and collaboration.
Attendance is mandatory, 2 absences are allowed under normal circumstances, 3 absences are allowed should the learning be carried out in an online form due to covid restrictions.
Aims
The course introduces students to queer, and feminist topics connected to the politics of representation in visual art and film in historical perspective (1980s and 1990s). They will be able to link these perspectives to the current discourse in visual art. Students will gain insight into topics and aesthetic modes brought by older periods of feminism and queer studies and will be able to critically reflect these texts and artworks in a wider context, both historical and contemporary. Students will be able to reflect with a clearer insight some aspects of the institutional processes of the art world(s) and they will gain insight into different approaches of identity politics.
Study aids
LORENZ, Renate. Queer art: a freak theory : Amanda Baggs, Pauline Boudry, Bob Flanagan, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Sharon Hayes, Zoe Leonard, Henrik Olesen, Jack Smith, Shinique Smith, Wu Ingrid Tsang, Ron Vawter. Queer studies. Bielefeld: Transcript, [2012]. ISBN 978-3-8376-1685-9.
SCHOONOVER, Karl. Queer cinema in the world. Duke University Press, 2016. ISBN 9780822362463.
GOPINATH, Gayatri. Unruly visions: the aesthetic practices of queer diaspora. Perverse modernities. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018. ISBN 978-1-4780-0028-0.
WOOLF, Virginia. Orlando: a biography. Vintage classics. London: Vintage, 2004. ISBN 0-09-947828-5.
WEISS, Andrea. Vampires and Violets: Lesbians in the Cinema. Pandora Press (GB), 2000. ISBN 0863584179.
BENSHOFF, Harry M. a GRIFFIN, Sean (ed.). Queer cinema, the film reader. In focus : Routledge film readers. New York, N.Y.: Routledge, 2004. ISBN 0-415-31987-0.
GEVISSER, Mark. The pink line: journeys across the world's queer frontiers. New York: Picador, 2021. ISBN 978-1-250-79859-6.
STEINBOCK, Eliza; SZCZYGIELSKA, Marianna a ANTHONY CLAIR WAGNER. Tranimacies. Taylor & Francis Group, 2021. ISBN 0367567202.
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