About the lecture
The lecture introduces postcolonial and gender studies’ notions related to visuality in queer artmaking focusing on the recent exhibition “Close[t] Demonstrations: an exhibition on the multitudes of queer in_visibility”. Artists from different continents were brought together under the scope of queer in_visibilities (conceptual, ideological, aesthetic, material) in the independent arts and cultural space Semmelweisklinik. How do we appear as queer subjects in private and in public? How does agency define the aesthetic modes of invisibility and opacity? Anna T., the exhibition’s curator, will offer insight into the development of the theme, the artworks chosen and the role of language and migration alongside dis_ability in an exhibition exploring the multitudes of queer in_visibilities.
About the speaker
Anna T. is an islander. She works as an artist, educator, and curator in Vienna, Austria. She has taught at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, the University of Art and Design Linz, and the Universities of Vienna and Klagenfurt. Her artistic practice and scholarly work draw from queer theory, decoloniality, and peripherical knowledge, aesthetics, and affect. Since 2003 she has exhibited and participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions and new media festivals internationally. She is the author of Opacity – Minority – Improvisation: An Exploration of the Closet Through Queer Slangs and Postcolonial Theory (2020). She recently curated Close[t] Demonstrations: an exhibition on the multitudes of queer in_visibility (November 2023).
*Image: Geopolytical Map of Eurasia According to the Krelex Zentre - Maria Vilkovisky and Ruth Jenrbekova. Picture by Anna T.