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Perverse Assemblages.
Queering Heteronormativity Inter/Medially

Barbara Paul, Josch Hoenes, Atlanta Ina Beyer, Natascha Frankenberg, Rena Onat (eds.):

Perverse Assemblages. Queering Heteronormativity Inter/Medially, Berlin: Revolver Publishing 2017, 144 pages with numerous illustrations, English

(= Publication of the conference "Perverse Assemblages. Queering heteronormative orders inter/medially", January 2015, CvO University of Oldenburg)

ISBN 978-3-95763-423-8

Publisher: Revolver Publishing. Email: info@revolver-publishing.com

The book Perverse Assemblages confidently reclaims the pejorative term "perverse" and asks how intermedial artistic practices, embedded in semiotic/material webs with complex historical relationships, serve to queer heteronormativity. Media and media apparatuses play a central role in efforts to promote the liberation and the visibility of queer, queer-feminist, and trans*-queer ways of life as well as in normalisation processes. Deleuze and Guattari's notion of the assemblage aids us in our investigation of the ways queer artistic and cultural artworks enable alternative forms of imagination. Particularly in their interactions with various media, how are cases of boundary-crossing and exchange processes between media configured as transgressions of binary gender norms? And to what extent does such art further queer politics of anti- and de-normalisation? These essays, divided into four thematic sections-Trans*Media, Trans*Bodies; Queering and Decolonising Art and Visual Culture; Queer Temporalities, Media, and Movement; and Queer Punk Politics-explore the critical and oppositional potential of selected artworks.

Featuring essays by Atlanta Ina Beyer, Natascha Frankenberg, Josch Hoenes, Katrin Köppert, Sandrine Micossé-Aikins, Mimi Thi Nguyen, Rena Onat, Barbara Paul, Raju Rage, Eliza Steinbock, Anthony Wagner, and M. Katharina Wiedlack.

Further publications:

un/verblümt.
Queer politics in aesthetics and theory

Josch Hoenes and Barbara Paul (eds.): un/verblümt. Queer Politics in Aesthetics and Theory, December 2014, 275 pages, numerous col. illus.

ISBN 978-3-95763-025-4

Publisher: Revolver Publishing Email: info (at) revolver-publishing.com

Aesthetics and theories articulate ideas and fantasies of gender and sexuality - often quite bluntly and straightforwardly. Sometimes, however, there is also blunt speech or, even more so, variations and modelling of blunt and unvarnished. Whether and how such un/visibilities are linked to queer politics or are themselves to be regarded as queer politics can only be decided in specific historical and cultural contexts. Which artistic strategies and theoretical models can be used to counter current normalisation pressures? With irony, parody, camouflage, eroticisation, fetishisation? What forms of invisibility are used to criticise prevailing concepts of gender and sexuality and test alternative perspectives? And how can queer knowledge and queer practices be remembered, passed on and continued?

The contributions to the publication "un/verblümt" discuss and develop theoretical and artistic drafts of queer politics from different disciplinary perspectives. The resistant arguments from art, culture and science collected here range from forms of hidden visibility in US-American art from the first half of the 20th century to artistic-activist interventions in the public space of the Federal Republic of Germany and current drafts of gaga feminism. In and with various media, they articulate queer ways of life and desires and/or raise objections to the functioning and everyday routines of heteronormative power relations. In this respect, they do not form a uniform site of resistance, but rather provide an insight into the diverse approaches of queer politics.

With an introduction by Josch Hoenes and Barbara Paul and contributions by Antke Engel, Mathias Danbolt, Alex Giegold, Kadja Grönke, Judith Jack Halberstam, Jonathan D. Katz, Ins A Kromminga, Skadi Loist, Renate Lorenz, Gin Müller, Claudia Reiche, Johanna Schaffer, Tomka Weiß, Michael Zywietz.

Conference:

PERVERSE STRUCTURES
HETERONORMATIVE ORDERS INTER/MEDIAL QUEERING

from 29 to 31 January 2015

University of Oldenburg

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Lecture:

"Bent desire. The male nude in 20th century photography"

Wilhem von Gloeden, (1856-1931) - ca. 1902

Prof Dr Andreas Kraß

on 12 June 2014
at 18:00 c.t.
in room A 8-1-110

The painting "Young Man on the Seashore" (1837) by the French painter Jean Hippolyte Flandrin is an icon of male nudes. The pose of the seated man leaning his head on his bent knees has gone down in art history as /Flandrin Pose/. The motif has also been taken up and reinterpreted countless times in photography, including by Fred Holland Day, Wilhelm von Gloeden, Rudolf Koppitz, Robert Mapplethorpe and Pierre & Gilles. What is the fascination of this pose, which simultaneously conceals and exposes the young man's body? The lecture explores this question with a view to the history of the discourse on male homosexuality.

Workshop:

Shift + Subject + Spacebar

"the queer researching subject: discomfort and passion in science"

Non-public workshop

Date: Friday, 23 January 2014, 11:00 - 19:00

Venue: University of the Arts Bremen

Organisers: Atlanta Athens, Natascha Frankenberg, Josch Hoenes, Rena Onat and Barbara Paul

Producing queer science from a queer perspective is confronted with specific problems. Firstly, it is the intention of queer theorising to work out how sexuality and gender as power and domination relations structure bodies, subjects and formations of desire as well as social institutions and, last but not least, the scientific community and knowledge formations themselves. It thus adopts a fundamentally critical position towards science, of which it also wants to be a part. Secondly, queer lifestyles in contemporary society and queer knowledge production within academia continue to be marginalised, precarious and confronted with various forms of discrimination and unequal treatment. How do we deal with the paradox of wanting to be part of a science that we simultaneously criticise? What strategies, approaches and experiences are there for dealing with this paradox? What does it mean for us as queer people to do queer science? Within which areas of tension and conflict do we position ourselves? And how and for whom do we produce which forms of knowledge? We will explore these questions in the workshop by focussing on various topics.

Lecture performance and video screening:

"Feeling bad - what is it good for?"
Political feelings, queer and artistic interventions

with Anja Michaelsen and Karin Michalski

In 2004, under the conference title "Depression - What is it good for?", the Feel Tank Chicago called for supposedly private feeling bad to be used as an indicator of current political conditions and as a starting point for alternative political thinking. As early as 2003, the association of activists, artists and academics publicly publicised their feelings under the slogan "Depressed? It Might Be Political", the group of activists, artists and academics publicly highlighted the connection between individual feelings and neoliberal working and living conditions as well as social power structures, as reflected in trans- and homophobia, sexism, post-colonial hierarchies and racism.

Based on The Alphabet of Feeling Bad (2012, dir: Karin Michalski), an experimental interview with Ann Cvetkovich, one of the most important representatives of the Feel Tanks, we would like to discuss the queer-feminist-political potential of feeling bad , of being stuck and stuck, of feeling inadequate and unhappy.

Anja Michaelsen is a research assistant at the Institute for Media Studies and the Master's degree programme in Gender Studies at Ruhr University Bochum, as well as co-editor of the online journal kultur&geschlecht. www.rub.de/genderstudies/kulturundgeschlecht

Karin Michalski is an artist, film curator and lecturer in Berlin. Film and video works: Pashke and Sofia (2003), Monika M. (2004), Working On It (2008), The Alphabet of Feeling Bad (2012). She is the editor of the art fanzine: Feeling Bad - queer pleasures, art and politics. www.karinmichalski.de

Invitation to the opening event of the
Helene Lange College
"Queer Studies and Intermediality: Art - Music - Media Culture"

4 July 2013, 5 p.m.

Campus Haarenfeld, Building A 8, Room 0-001

University of Oldenburg

At the centre of the Helene Lange Centre for Queer Studies and Intermediality are queer or queer-designated works from art, music and media culture - productions that combine different forms of artistic expression and formulate alternatives to heteronormative structures and argumentations. The research programme asks questions about the interfaces between intermediality, queer performativities and aesthetic concepts as well as about interferences between everyday practices and juridical discourse. The extent to which queer artistic statements function as anti-normalisation politics will be analysed and discussed.

The Helene Lange Kolleg is a programme for the promotion of young women.

The Kolleg is headed by Prof Dr Barbara Paul (Institute of Art and Visual Culture), Prof Dr Melanie Unseld (Institute of Music), Prof Dr Silke Wenk (Institute of Art and Visual Culture) and Prof Dr Andrea Sick (Hochschule der Künste Bremen, Department of Cultural and Media History/Theory).

Programme

Greetings

Prof Dr Bernd Siebenhüner, Vice President for Early Career Researchers and Quality Management
Prof Dr Sabine Kyora, Dean of School III - School of Linguistics and Cultural Studies

Introduction Prof Dr Barbara Paul, spokesperson of the Helene Lange College "Queer Studies and Intermediality: Art - Music - Media Culture"

Art, Talk & Media: Presentation of the research projects by Dipl. Kult.arb. Ina Beyer, Natascha Frankenberg, M.A., Dr des. Josch Hoenes and Rena Onat, M.A.

More Art & Media: Prof. Dr Andrea Sick, University of the Arts Bremen

followed by a reception: Champagne & Loitering with Intent

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