{"id":3575,"date":"2014-08-03T22:28:03","date_gmt":"2014-08-03T20:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.queer-institut.de\/political-aesthetics-of-drag\/"},"modified":"2023-11-20T11:41:51","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T09:41:51","slug":"political-aesthetics-of-drag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.queer-institut.de\/en\/political-aesthetics-of-drag\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Aesthetics of Drag"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shaka McGlotten<\/h1>\n

Talk, Wednesday, October 15, 2014, ICI Berlin<\/h2>\n

The anthropologist Shaka McGlotten explores in his ethnographic studies the subversive politics of drag, and questions the desire of resistance in different subcultural settings.<\/p>\n

Drag can be a means of touching queer and other publics, or of mediating one\u2019s economic precarity. It can function as art by other means, or by any means necessary. And like politics, drag can be a duty, a contentious pleasure, or something to dread.<\/p>\n

The talk presents drag aesthetics as an ethics, focusing specifically on the ways artists and activists use drag to respond to, or reframe, some of the pressing political crises of our times, including racism, austerity, and police and military violence, among others. It is constructed as a series of interlocking ethnographic portraits of contemporary drag across three sites, New York City, Berlin, and Israel\/Palestine. These stories foreground some of the interlocutors\u2019 competing desires for doing drag\u2014for some it provides a stage from which they can articulate a radical politics, while for others it is a sensual refuge away from politics as they are ordinarily understood. Indeed, in keeping with the lecture series\u2019 theme \u201cDesire\u2019s Multiplicity and Serendipity,\u201d McGlotten shows how the desires that animate the drag personas and performances of his informants reflect a diverse array of lived conditions and political aesthetic orientations.<\/p>\n

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Shaka McGlotten<\/strong> is Associate Professor of Media, Society, and the Arts at Purchase College-SUNY, where he teaches courses on ethnography, digital culture, and queer studies. He is the co-editor of Black Genders and Sexualities<\/em> (Palgrave, 2012) and Zombie Sexuality: Essays on Sex and the Living Dead<\/em> (McFarland, 2014). He has written and spoken widely about public sex, virtual worlds, gaming, and hook up apps, preoccupations that appear in his monograph, Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality <\/em>(SUNY Press, 2013).<\/p>\n

when:<\/strong> Wednesday October 15, 2014, 7.30pm
\nwhere:<\/strong> ICI Berlin, Christinenstra\u00dfe 18\/19, House 8 (U2 Senefelder Platz)<\/p>\n

The talk contributes to the lecture series “Desire’s Multiplicity and Serendipity,”<\/p>\n

\"icon_desire\"<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 a collaboration between the Institute for Queer Theory and the Institute for Cultural Inquiry ICI Berlin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Desire\u2019s Multiplicity and Serendipity<\/strong><\/p>\n

Desire, wandering about and forming assemblages, might be accompanied by serendipity or mate with jouissance <\/em>or the power of the erotic<\/em>, even as it fails to reach its presumed aim. Instead of running on a single track, we take desire to be functioning in a multiple manner. We call on desire\u2019s serendipity <\/em>to grasp its illogical, contingent modes as a figure of fortunate errans<\/em>. The lecture series looks for queer reconceptualizations of desire, its cultural articulations and lived realities. The key question is how to get from the critique of desire as a hierarchizing and normalizing force to the heterotopias of desire. What would it mean to understand or experience desire as opening up to alterity, undermining its own involvement in structural inequalities and normative violence?<\/p>\n

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Shaka Mc Glotten<\/b>
\nTalk 15 October 2014, ICI Berlin
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\nThe anthropologist Shaka McGlotten explores in his ethnographic studies the subversive politics of drag, and questions the desire of resistance in different subcultural settings.
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