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Prof. Dr. Verena Kuni  M. A.

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"Are there any women here today?" Beyond the Stone Butch Blues. Fe/Male Troubles Revisited from a (Cyber-)Feminist Point of View

Lecture | Vortrag
in the framework of "trans/gender" symposium, Piet Zwart Institute for postgraduate studies and reasearch / Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam, Rotterdam, January 11, 2003 | 11.01.2003

No doubt, images of transgression are en vogue. When looking at what's circulating on the displays of contemporary art and popular media, from the galleries to MTV, it seems like our society is starving for the chance to get in touch with "Gender Blenders" and "Gender Benders", "Drag Queens" and "Kings", "Transvestites" and "Transsexuals"- at least as long as this encounter takes place in the neat framework of the media, of course. However, the question is not only: What happens when we decide to leave the surface to enter either the realms of the imaginary ruled by diverse economies of desire or the social spaces ruled by diverse politics of power? Even when pretending it is "just the images" we want to deal with, we won't be able to avoid to ask: How do you look at it? In my lecture, I want to take a closer look at some media based representations of what's usually being called "male femininities" and "female masculinities", in order to explore the difficulties as well as the potentials of transgressions at gender(ed) interfaces. In this contested zone we will have to deal not only with the relationship between 'utopia' and 'reality', but also with the concepts of 'truth' and 'fake' resp. the notions of 'true' and 'false'/'fake' that usually are attributed to images (and representations) of bodies, sex(ualiti)es and genders.

tags: alltagskultur, alltagstechnologien, art & media, art & society, bild & imagination, bodies, communication, cultural history, cyberfeminism, cyberfeminismus, digital culture, digitale kultur, displays, electronic arts, elektronische kunst, everyday culture, everyday technologies, games & play, geek, gender studies, geschlechterforschung, hacks, image & imagination, invisibility, kommunikation, körper, kulturgeschichte, kunst & gesellschaft, kunst & medien, media cultures, medienkultur, perception, performance, popular culture, populärkultur, repräsentation, representation, sichtbarkeit, spiele & spielen, technologie, technology, unsichtbarkeit, visibility, visual culture, visuelle kultur, wahrnehmung

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