Sabine Probst
16. April 1955 - 18. Dezember 2011Friends and family say good bye with words by Audre Lorde:
"When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid."
upcoming events
Series of Events (January- June 2012, NGBK Berlin)
Bossing Images
The Power of Imagaes, Queer Art, and PoliticsThe relationship between images and their audiences is often a little bit bossy. Subjects boss images around to serve their ideological goals. Images boss subjects around, for instance by suggesting they conform to heteronormative ideals. Through mutual desire, images and subjects engage in illicit transgressions of their hierarchized relationships.
Focusing specifically on images that engage with ambiguous genders, queer desires, freaky bodies, and the puncturing of other intersecting normative imaginaries, this series of four public events will examine the social field of images, artists, audiences, critics, and curators. At each event, people and images will be invited to take on these roles (of “the artist” or “the audience”)—as well as to challenge them—in an attempt to explore how this field is structured by bossiness. This bossiness is hierarchical, saturated by power and desire, and always includes moments of failure. As with any “work relationship,” bosses can never fully control their employees—there are always paths for subversion and wasting company time.
Through experimenting with how these various agents work together, we are interested in challenging the role that curation plays in bossing images. We wish to develop curatorial formats that could trigger more nuanced considerations of bossiness in visual discourses and the structures that surround them.
Bossing Images is a project of the Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst NGBK (http://ngbk.de), organized by Antke Engel and Jess Dorrance (Institute for Queer Theory) in cooperation with Renate Lorenz.
1st Evening: January 23, 2012
MASKED PUBLICS / MASKIERTE ÖFFENTLICHKEITEN
What kind of masks do we wear to claim power in public spaces? What kind of images “belong” in public? What kind of speech gets heard?
Invited Performers: Sharon Hayes Installation I March In The Parade of Liberty But As Long As I Love You I’m Not Free (2007/08),
Danica Dakic (Düsseldorf) and Clarissa Thieme (Berlin).When: 7 pm Salon: The artwork meets the audience.
8 pm Event: The invited guests begin their performance.Where: Neue Neuen Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Veranstaltungsraum (1st floor)
Oranienstraße 25, 10999 Berlin (U-Kottbusser Tor)
Lecture Series
The Subtle Racializations of Sexuality: Queer Theory, the Aftermath of Colonial History, and the Late-Modern State
Western states happily turn to gender and sexual politics in order to demonstrate their presumed progressiveness. They find support from some parts of feminist and LGBTI activism that regard (neo)liberal state and diversity policies as instrumental for achieving integration and recognition. Such alliances have recently been criticized for fostering new social divisions and endorsing occidentalist and sometimes racist premises. Interested in the nuances of this critique, the lecture series brings together theoretical and political considerations developed from Queers of Color and/or migrant perspectives on late-modern and neoliberal state policies. Sara Ahmed, Fatima El Tayeb, Antonia Chao, Drucilla Cornell and Cathy Cohen will be among the next speakers.
next talk: April 23, 2012
Antonia Chao: Encountering Sexual Aliens: State Sovereignty and the Heteronormative Mechanism at Work on the Margins of Taiwan
Antonia Chao is Professor of Sociology at Tunghai University, Taiwan. The talk is organized in cooperation with Prof. Sabine Hark (ZIFG, TU-Berlin).
The lecture series is organized by Antke Engel, Institute for Queer Theory in cooperation with the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry (www.ici-berlin.org), which hosts the series. It is supported by Schwules Museum Berlin as well as other academic institutions and political organizations in Berlin who co-organize and sponsor individual lectures in the series.
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