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Painting Beyond Itself / The Medium in the Post-Medium Condition
Painting Beyond Itself / The Medium in the Post-Medium Condition Author:Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Isabelle Graw New from the ongoing publication series from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, — Pink Labor addresses the crossover of form and politics in visual representations — of gender, sexuality and desire. Contradictory standpoints of queer art practices, — conceptions of the body, and ideas of queer abstraction, a term coined by — USC gender studies profess... more »or Judith Jack Halberstam, are of particular interest
in several essays on artworks and art practices in this substantial illustrated
reader. In addition to testimonials from queer performers on the topic of drag,
the book includes interviews, essays, collages and personal writings. Placing
contemporary art practices in historical perspective and revising the perceived
divergence between artistic attitudes and formal approach, this publication
offers refreshingly diverse and thought-provoking points of view. Contributors
include artists, film and art historians, theorists, critics, curators, scholars, filmmakers
and writers from Berlin, New York, Warsaw, Beirut, Vienna, Chicago, Los
Angeles and Prague.
Contributions by: Madeleine Bernstorff (film curator/author, Berlin), Cana Bilir-Meier, Kaucyila Brooke, Anna Dau ikova, Vaginal Davis, Christiane Erharter (editor), David J. Getsy, Judith Jack Halberstam (USA academic, Gender Studies USC), Harmony Hammond, Stefan Hayn, Nanna Heidenreich, Daniel Hendrickson, Werner Hirsch, Nina Hoechtl, G. B. Jones, Jakob Lena Knebl, Michael Lucid, Ulrike Müller (visual artist, Austria-NY based, gender queer groupLTTR), Barbara Paul, Johannes Porsch, Karol Radziszewski, Raed Rafei, Roee Rosen, Hans Scheirl editor, Dietmar Schwärzler, Katia Sepúlveda (Chilian Video artist), William J. Simmons, Ruby Sircar, Eliza Steinbock, Ginger Brooks Takahashi« less