Essays about: "queer art"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 26 essays containing the words queer art.
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1. Diversifying a Museum Collection and the Politics of Representation : A Mixed-Methods Approach to the Acquisition Policies and Implementation of Diversity Strategies at Stockholm's Moderna Museet in the 21st Century
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetikAbstract : Since 1958, Moderna Museet has housed Sweden’s largest collection of Swedish and international modern and contemporary art. This thesis examines the 21st-century collecting strategies and policy development of Moderna Museet, with a focus on diversity and representation, using intersectional theory and queer studies. READ MORE
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2. A sexual Series: Visningsex
University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen KonsthögskolanAbstract : The art series A Sexual Series is based on posthumanist theory and asexual experience. Shapes of performative alter egos materialized from a queer cyborg position of technologically enhanced crip experiences (the strong symbolical constructing process of straightening scoliosis surgery). READ MORE
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3. Instructions for a Walk Off Line : stanley brouwn’s deviations from the norm as a strategy for arts bureaucracy
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetikAbstract : Instructions for a Walk Off Line engages in a reparative reading of Fluxus and Conceptual artworks, with a focus on the practice of stanley brouwn, to outline a set of strategies for contemporary artists to approach the role of bureaucracy in mediating their relationship with art institutions. This research starts from the observation that modern and contemporary art museums are increasingly invested in inviting underrepresented artists into their spaces without engaging in the necessary structural changes to meet their conditions for being included. READ MORE
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4. Cyborg Subject or Transformable Avatars? : A Study of Power, Body and Identity in Post-cyberfeminist Art
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)Abstract : This essay examines the body in post-cyberfeminist art to study possible changes in how the body is perceived in the shift from cyberfeminist to post-cyberfeminist art. I have studied the body by examining power and identity in four cases of post-cyberfeminist art, using postmodern feminist theories and concepts such as gender, gender performativity, heterosexual matrix and intersectionality. READ MORE
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5. peripheral dancing : a peripheral essay and a peripheral toolbox
University essay from Stockholms konstnärliga högskola/Institutionen för dansAbstract : This text is the second part of a Bachelor's degree project, dealing with the artistic research and presentation, peripheral dancing, conducted as the first part of the project. The research started from a question: Can one challenge, rethink and explore the peripheries, centres, and orientations of and through one's dancing? The work is perceived through the context of Stockholm University of The Arts, specifically through the lens of the BA in Dance Performance programme. READ MORE
