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Queer, feminist and trans* scholars of colour have shown that hegemonic power and domination relations along the lines of difference "race"/race, gender, sexuality and class are (re)produced, maintained, but also contested and fought against in the field of the visual via images and media (e.g. Hall, Mercer, hooks, Halberstam, Muñoz). Following on from these findings, the panel will ask what role art, artistic practices and an engagement with visual culture can play in (queer) of colour criticism and activism. On the one hand, this involves critically reflecting on the exclusion criteria of the art system itself and discussing possible interventions, and on the other hand, questions about how artistic processes can be used to challenge normalised power relations, such as Eurocentrism and the white gaze in art history (Micossé-Aikins), and create empowering self-representations.

By bringing together artists, academics and activists, the panel will explore questions such as the following: How can current problems from approaches to queer of colour critique be linked more closely with critiques of representation and questions about the (re)production of power relations in the field of the visual? What role do art, media and visual culture play in the production of normative orders and for processes of othering? What affects and temporalities are mobilised in the process? What happens when queer artists of colour produce their own images, write their own stories and create self-representations? What are the possibilities and limits of the art world? Can art contribute to a decolonisation and queering of (visual) culture, media and society? Does art have a special potential to make norms, normalised and naturalised power relations visible? Which artistic practices have a potential for resistance? Which aesthetic, media and intermedia strategies are suitable for this?

THU 29 JANUARY 2015

^19.00-20.30
Roundtable with|Roundtable with
Sandrine Micossé-Aikins (Berlin) & Raju Rage (London)

Moderation: Rena Onat

Queer, feminist and trans* academics of colour have pointed out that the field of the visual plays a crucial role in (re)producing, maintaining, contesting and resisting hegemonic power relations along the differentiating lines of race, gender, sexuality and class, among other identity categories (see, for example, Hall, Mercer, hooks, Halberstam, Muñoz). With these considerations in mind, this panel asks what role art, artistic practices and theoretical analyses of visual culture play for (queer) of colour criticism and activism. In pursuing this line of questioning, we also invite reflections on the art system's exclusion criteria, discussions about potential interventions into that system and how normalised power structures, like Eurocentrism or the white gaze of art history (Micossé-Aikins), can be challenged through artistic practices and the creation of empowering self-representations.

By bringing together artists, academics and activists, this panel intends to examine issues, such as, how can current debates concerning approaches of queer of colour Critique be further connected to critical analyses of representation and to questions of (re)producing power structures within the field of the visual? How are art, media and visual culture historically and currently involved in processes of othering and establishing normative orders? Which affects and temporalities are being mobilised in these processes? What happens when queer artists of colour create their own images or write their own histories and self-representations? Which possibilities are available within the art system and which boundaries are set by it? Can art contribute to queering and decolonising (visual) culture, media and society, and if so, how? Does art have the ability to make certain power relations visible that are otherwise being covered up through processes of normalisation and naturalisation?

Which artistic practices hold subversive potential? Which artistic, medial and intermedial strategies are especially useful?

THU 29 JANUARY 2015

^19.00-20.30
Roundtable with|Roundtable with
Sandrine Micossé-Aikins (Berlin) & Raju Rage (London)

Moderation: Rena Onat