Appearing Differently: Abstraction's Transgender and Queer Capacities (Interview by William J. Simmons)
in C. Erharter, D. Schwärzler, R. Sicar, and H. Scheirl, eds., _Pink Labor on Golden Streets: Queer Art Practices_ (Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2015), 38-55
9 Pages Posted: 25 Oct 2016
Date Written: 2015
Abstract
Interview exploring abstraction's use as a resource for artists working from transgender and queer perspectives. Focus is placed on the resistance to compulsory self-disclosure and to protocols of surveillance and voyeurism. Also discussed is the relation of these ideas to my historical work on the 1960s which makes a case for the widespread urgency of transgender theory by infiltrating canonical narratives and artists.
Keywords: transgender, queer, abstraction, formalism, form, visibility, politics
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