Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2025

Micropolitics of contemporary queer-feminist performances in German-speaking countries 

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At the end of the 1960s and throughout the 1970s, performance art was of particular interest to women artists who used their bodies both as a material for artistic creation and as a discursive tool for conveying their revolts and political demands against patriarchal oppressions. Over the past ten years, the concerns of feminist body art have evolved along with the struggles of intersectional feminism, which is characterized by a desire to converge the struggles of all oppressed minorities, with particular emphasis on queer identities. Referring to performances by contemporary Germanophone queer artists (including Julischka Stengele, Jakob Lena Knebl, Simone Dede Ayivi and LizArt Productions), this chapter analyzes how queer performance aesthetics navigates between art and activism and which micropolitical agency it provides in a Germanophone context. It interrogates how queer embodiment or re-embodiment allows for a change of perspective that ultimately disturbs a “straight mind” (Wittig 1992) to a queer perspective. The study of the various processes of queering bodies in these pieces, based on queer techniques such as freak, post-porn, crip and witch culture, highlights how this change of perspective goes beyond the simple deconstruction of “gender performativity” (Butler) and traces other (art) histories, acting as much on social and sexual norms as on the political and economic structures in which they are embedded.

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hal-04308426 , version 1 (27-11-2023)

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Priscilla Wind. Micropolitics of contemporary queer-feminist performances in German-speaking countries . Germanophone Feminist and Queer Literature, Film, and Culture,, Flora Roussel, Oct 2023, Montréal, Canada. ⟨hal-04308426⟩
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