upcoming events
double book launch
Bossing Images meets The Little Book of Big Visions
Friday January 18, 2013, 9pm, Südblock, Admiralstr. 1-2 (Berlin, Kottbusser Tor)
Philipp Khabo Koepsell, Philip Metz, Sandra Ortmann, Sandrine Micossé-Aikins, Sharon Dodua Otoo, Renate Lorenz, Simon Vincent, Antke Engel and others.
After Party mit lisalotta.p (HipHop, Pop, Queerbeet) & diva banni (jumpin’jumpin’)
"Bossing Images" meets "The Little Book of Big Visions" is an interactive event, which not only examines power structures within the field of art but also aims to set them in motion. Power and hierarchies are inevitably present in artistic spaces: they are engraved in the relationships between artists, consumers/ the public, curators, critics and decision makers. They reveal themselves in the diverse positionalities of individuals through societal markers like race, class, gender, sexuality and ability status. We want to collectively negotiate their inherent conflictual interplay and contrasts through artistic works.
A cooperation between the Institute for Queer Theory and Sharon Dodua Otoo and Sandrine Micossé-Aikins (editors of The Little Book of Big Visions), Südblock and NGBK.
Yes, they are out! ... let's celebrate the publication of
BOSSING IMAGES. Macht der Bilder, queere Kunst und Politik / The power of images, queer art and politics, Berlin (NGBK, Red. Jess Dorrance, Antke Engel) 2012
&
THE LITTLE BOOK OF BIG VISIONS. How to be an Artist and Revolutionize the World, hrsg.: Sandrine Micossé-Aikins / Sharon Dodua Otoo, Berlin (edition assemblage) 2012
Don't miss the blogs > Bossing Images and > Little Book of Big Visions
Judith Jack Halberstam
Gaga Feminism: Rethinking Queer Anarchy
Sunday January 27, 2013, 5.30pm, Silverfuture, Weserstraße 206, Berlin-Neukölln
Judith Jack Halberstam and Jana Günther
a conversation moderated by Sonja Erkens (Missy Magazine)
Puzzle competition: What do the pregnant man Thomas Beatie, the comic-hero Sponge Bob and the Popstar Lady Gaga have in common?
Those who (don't) know the answer are the lucky participants of a talk with Judith Jack Halberstam. The creator of „Gaga Feminism“ regards the three media figures as forerunners of a current change, which is going to radically change our conceptions of kinship, gender and sexuality. J.J. Halberstam and Jana Günther will discuss how to speed up that change through „Going Gaga“ ourselves, and how this relates to queer anarchy.On the occasion of the publication of
J.Jack Halberstam: Gaga Feminism. Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal,
Beacon Press 2012.also newly published
Bossing Images.
The Power of Images, Queer Art, and PoliticsNeue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin 2012
edited by Jess Dorrance and Antke Engel
ISBN 978-3-938515-45-7, 112 S., 19,- Eur
Please order at: NGBKBossing Images is about the bossy relationships between images and their audiences. Drawing on queer and postcolonial theory, it proposes bossiness as a framework through which to foreground the desiring, but not always, hierarchical, but never fully stabilized, power relations that shape the production, reception, and circulation of art. The concept also creates a setting where “the image” can function simultaneously as artwork, fantasy, and metaphor. Focusing on images by contemporary artists—a street protest-cum-love letter (Sharon Hayes), vacuuming “beds” in an underground lair (Helen Chadwick), a pole-dancing panda (Elodie Pong), bodies as abstract art (Jakob Lena Knebl, Hans Scheirl), and humanoid figures in potentially violent scenarios (Laylah Ali)—Bossing Images seeks to shift the question from “What is queer art?” to “What can queer art do?”
This book was published on the occasion of the series of events Bossing Images Bossing Images. Macht der Bilder, queere Kunst und Politik/The Power of Images, Queer Art, and Politics (Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin January–June, 2012) organized by Antke Engel and Jess Dorrance in cooperation with Renate Lorenz. With texts by Bini Adamczak, Nana Adusei-Poku, Kerstin Brandes, Jess Dorrance, Antke Engel, Coco Fusco, Katalin Halasz, Katrin Köppert, Renate Lorenz, Sandra Ortmann, Tim Stüttgen a.k.a. timi mei monigatti, Füsun Türetken, Simon Vincent and Eva von Redecker.
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