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This conversation explores how queerness has impacted on and informed the art world – from artistic practice to critical discourse – considered from the perspective of the artist. Historically, “queer” was the slur used against those who were perceived to be or made to feel abnormal. Beginning in the 1980s, “queer” was reappropriated and embraced as a badge of honor. While queer draws its politics and affective force from the history of non-normative, gay, lesbian, and bisexual communities, it is not equivalent to these categories, nor is it an identity. Rather, it offers a strategic undercutting of the stability of identity and of the dispensation of power that shadows the assignment of categories and taxonomies. Artists who identify their practices as queer today call forth utopian and dystopian alternatives to the ordinary, adopt outlaw stances, embrace criminality and opacity, and forge unprecedented kinships, relationships, loves, and communities. Rather than a book of queer theory for artists, this is a book of artists' queer tactics and infectious concepts. By definition, there can be no singular “queer art.” Here, in the first Documents of Contemporary Art anthology to be c

Who reads Queer (Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art)?

Author

David J. Getsy (Editor)

Publisher

Whitechapel Gallery ; The MIT Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780854882427

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Art, History, History & Criticism