The Helene Lange Kolleg primarily examines the extent to which intermediality enables and/or favours the formulation of queer positions and the extent to which queer works and their reception can function as anti-normalisation politics. This is essentially about the interweaving of artistic argumentation and everyday practices as well as the question of the political realisability of queer convictions.

The aim is to analyse expressive formations of queer intermedia works in the context of the symbolic and cultural order and to relate them to conventional social norms. In doing so, the impossibilities/possibilities of transformation processes, namely the crossing, shifting, transgression and reworking of conceptions, normalisations and regulations are to be discussed as well as new positions.

In line with current desiderata, the Helene Lange Centre will focus on three fields that are being researched in an inter- and transdisciplinary manner:

A. Intermediality and queer

B. Queer performativities and aesthetic concepts

C. Interferences between everyday practices and juridical discourse

The three focal points mentioned are also embedded in two fundamental current research perspectives that will be further developed in the Centre:

1. to what extent do queer works in art, music and media culture function as anti-normalisation politics?

2. to what extent do queer studies in cultural studies represent an extension and actualisation of gender studies??