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Josch Hoenes und Barbara Paul, Hg. (2014): un/verblümt. Queere Politiken in Ästhetik und Theorie. Berlin, Revolver Publishing.
No full textWho Are You Calling Fat? Eating Disordered Thinking in Jenny Saville’s Plan and Propped
Get PDFJenny Saville’s early paintings of fat, female nudes, as exemplified by Plan (1993) and Propped (1992) achieved an almost instant notoriety, in part due to the openly feminist intentions Saville claimed for her otherwise traditional subject matter. Critics tend to either laud the works as celebrations of fatness or provide feminist readings of the nudes as troubling societal body standards. However, none of these authors question that the women depicted are fat. I argue that critics conflate size and scale in these paintings, demonstrating their absorption of society’s increasingly stringent beauty norms. The paintings also reveal Saville’s own ambivalent attitude toward fatness, as well as contemporary anxiety about the fat body
Modernity Unveiled. Veiling / Unveiling / Veiling again
Get PDFGülsün Karamustafa beschreibt in ihrem sehr persönlichen Beitrag den wechselvollen Umgang mit dem Schleier in der Türkei. Sie verflicht dabei Familiengeschichte mit politischen Ereignissen und Beschreibungen eigener Arbeiten, die um konventionelle Etikette und unkonventionelle Bekleidung kreisen. Im Nachzeichnen der unterschiedlichen dress codes von der Republiksgründung bis in die heutigen Tage gibt sie Hinweise auf deren Klassenspezifik
“I Wanna Be Fat”: Healthism and Fat Politics in TLC’s My Big Fat Fabulous Life
Get PDFAmerican reality TV has for a long time staged fat bodies in exaggerated and voyeuristic ways. The aim of such programs is to tell cautionary tales about the supposedly disastrous effects of fatness for the individual and society. The fat body needs to change, or be controlled in order to function fully in a capitalist society. One series that interrupts this narrative is TLC’s My Big Fat Fabulous Life (2015-); the title suggests that this narrative is not one of misery and regret, but of joy – certainly an unusual take on fatness in reality TV. It stars Whitney Thore, a woman who claims to be body positive, and who advertises fat politics; politics inspired by fat studies and activism. These clash with the healthist, neoliberal ideology circulated in reality TV. While she announces that she is proud to be fat, her friends and family are constantly shown challenging her. The series thus sends contradicting messages: unable to fully commit to fat and body positivity, it stages Thore’s health problems in a spectacular way and thus undermines the successes and triumphs she experiences as fat role model.
Questions & Answers: New Materialism, Old Media
Get PDFIm this dialog, Axel Stockburger and Kristina Pia Hofer discuss how objects as subjects to changes by way of discoursive shifts may shift their weight, and how queer_feminist discourses on materialism intersect with those in contemporary art markets
Glanz. Zur Diffraktion des Spiegels. Beyoncé und FKA twigs als 'glänzende' Beispiele des 'Schwarzwerdens'
Get PDFBased on close readings of the visual album Lemonade by Beyoncé and the music video Two Weeks by FKA twigs this paper examines shining, as the potential to diffract a mirror, as the medium that holds deep significance for white western subject formation. In reference to Achille Mbembe’s approach to becoming black and Fred Moten’s concept of previousness I will argue that shining plays a central role in enabling a black subjectification whose political power arises from the circumstance of not yet being a proper subject. In the previousness of black subjectivity rests the possibility to realize being engaged with world beyond white western understandings of participation. Thus, black subjectivity can be understood as diffractive subjectivity, as shiny
