Anthology "QUEERULIEREN: Störmomente in Kunst, Medien und Wissenschaft" (edited by Oliver Klaassen / Andrea Seier)

Book launch dates

- Wed, 08.11.23, 6-8pm (in co-operation with the FemRef of the University of Oldenburg): https: //femref.uni-oldenburg.de/landing/programm/events/lasst-uns-gemeinsam-queerulieren/

- Sun, 25.11.23, 17:30-18 h (Queer Reading Festival Mainz): https://queer-gelesen.de/?p=1435

- Wed, 29.11.23, 6-8 pm (in co-operation with the SchwulenRef of the University of Oldenburg and QUEERREADS Oldenburg): https: //www.instagram.com/p/Cy8iXLKCXiQ/?img_index=1

- Thu, 18.01.24, 6-8pm (in co-operation with the queer-feminist women's department at the AStA of JLU Giessen: https: //www.instagram.com/p/C0zEpBDsptp/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

- Mon, 22.01.24, 6-8pm (in co-operation with the Queer Centre Marburg and the Centre for Gender Studies and Feminist Futurology at the Philipps University Marburg) https://www.queeres-zentrum-marburg.de/uncategorized/buchvorstellung-queerulieren-stoermomente-in-kunst-medien-und-wissenschaft/

- Wed, 07.02.24, 7-9 pm (in co-operation with the Autonomous Feminist Department of the University of Bremen)

Anthology "QUEERULIEREN: Störmomente in Kunst, Medien und Wissenschaft" (edited by Oliver Klaassen / Andrea Seier)

Cover of the anthology. © Oliver Klaassen

Anthology "QUEERULIEREN: Störmomente in Kunst, Medien und Wissenschaft" (edited by Oliver Klaassen / Andrea Seier)

In recent years, not only have mobilisations against feminism and 'gender' increased significantly, but also the commercialisation and inflationary use of the word "queer" in everyday life and academia. In addition, there are alarming appropriation efforts by social movements such as lateral thinkers in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. More than ever, gender studies and queertheories are therefore dependent on the development of emancipatory counter-strategies.

With "Querulieren", the authors borrow a term with its own history in the German-speaking world, which they take up, break through, shift and repurpose. It is about an interdisciplinary and multidimensional exploration of queerulatingmoments of disruption in art, media and science that are critical of normativity, binarism and neoliberalism. Instead of either/or, the authors argue in favour of both/and, neither/nor and in-between.

The contributions focus primarily on the micropolitical, intentional, artistic-medial, receptive and epistemological dimensions of disruption and illustrate their forms and effects, for example in works by Cindy Sherman, Hannah Höch, Akasegawa Genpei and Maria Eichhorn, on the basis of political-carnivalesque spaces or indigenous North America.

The variety of contributions ranges from scientific articles, essays, duets and project documentations to a polyphonic text-image collage, a poetry and picture series, a zine and a participatory art project.

Further information

Printed with the kind support of:

- Institute for Kund and Visual Culture, C. v. O. University of Oldenburg

- Autonomous Feminist Department, C. v. O. University of Oldenburg

- Autonomous Gay Department, C. v. O. University of Oldenburg

- Section "Media & Gender", Centre for Media and Interactivity, Justus Liebig University Giessen

  • View of the table of contents. © Oliver Klaassen
  • A look at the article "Queerulierende Widerstandsstrategien in der Schriftsprache. Explanations of ways of writing" by Oliver Klaassen. © Oliver Klaassen
  • A look at the introduction "Multidimensional, productive disruption‽ An exploratory tour" by Oliver Klaassen with the collaboration of Andrea Seier. © Oliver Klaassen
  • A look at the article "MEHR(WERT) QUEERULIEREN. Food for thought for disruption" by Oliver Klaassen in collaboration with Marie Sophie Beckmann, Andrea Brandt, Kerstin Brandes & Linda Hentschel et al. © Oliver Klaassen
  • A look at the article "MEHR(WERT) QUEERULIEREN. Food for thought for disruption" by Oliver Klaassen in collaboration with Marie Sophie Beckmann, Andrea Brandt, Kerstin Brandes & Linda Hentschel et al. © Oliver Klaassen
  • A look at the article "QUEERULIZING PER EXCELLENCE... even in tense times! An epilogue to Barbara Paul's research at the interface of art studies, gender studies and queer theories" by Oliver Klaassen. © Oliver Klaassen

Online conference "QUE(E)RULIERT! Practices of Disruption in Art / Media / Science" (02.-03.07.2021)

The contributions to the interdisciplinary conference focus on the emancipatory potential of practices in art, media and science that counter discrimination based on gender, sexuality and desire in a que(e)rulant way. Querulants (derived from the Latin queri - '(to) sue') are people who, despite little chance of success, take on stubborn, tenacious and institutionally exhausting battles, especially with courts and authorities, in order to assert their demands. The political, scientific, activist and/or artistic added value of such a nagging and critical attitude lies in the initiation of necessary processes of change and transformation and, in reference to the concept of the feminist killjoy (Sara Ahmed), not least in the joy of persistent questioning, resistance and spoiling the fun. The conference's variety of formats (panels, workshops, que(e)rulant duets, roundtable, drag king lecture performance, screening and participatory art project) invites participants to positively rethink and recast que(e)rulating as an artistic as well as art and media studies practice and (research) attitude, thus placing itself in the tradition of queer, queer-feminist and/or feminist strategies of resignifying the appropriation of pejorative attributions.

With CONTRIBUTIONS by Cornelia Bartsch, Ulrike Bergermann, Kerstin Brandes, Jakob Claus, Atlanta Ina Beyer, Antke A. Engel, Anke Fischer, Natascha Frankenberg, Alexander Henschel, Linda Hentschel, Katharina Hoffmann, Katrin Köppert, Renata Kutinka, Petra Löffler, Nanna Lüth, Rena Onat, Barbara Paul, Sylvia Pritsch, Rahel Puffert, Claudia Reiche, Annika Lisa Richter, Pia Schlechter, Andrea Seier, Oona Valarie Serbest, Sophie Sexon / Boris Gay, Andrea Sick, Lüder Tietz, Lukas Töpfer, Wiebke Trunk, Brigitte Vasicek, Tobias Vogt, Helene von Oldenburg & Silke Wenk. Silke Wenk.

ORGANISATION: Oliver Klaassen & Lena Radtke

The conference will take place online via the Big Blue Button video conferencing system. Please register by 25.06.21 with a short email to

Short film Über den Wahn/Sinn des Que(e)rulierens (2021), Duration: 13.34 min., Editing: Helen-Laura Höft, Concept & Idea: Oliver Klaassen & Lena Radtke.

On the delusion/sense of que(e)rulating (2021)
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What do you associate with que(e)rulating? What role does que(e)rulating play for your own (professional) self-image? Have you ever que(e)rulated before? These three questions were posed to the four speakers Antke Antek Engel, Barbara Paul, Helene von Oldenburg and Silke Wenk in the run-up to the roundtable "On the delusion/sense of que(e)rulating" as part of the online conference "QUE(E)RULIERT! Practices of Disruption in Art / Media / Science" (2 - 3 July 2021), together with the request to provide brief and concise answers in a self-created video. In a next step, all video contributions were edited into a short film, which was shown as an introduction to the start of the roundtable.
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