Kurzbeschreibung

The project examines (re)presentations of relationships and gender in performance and media art from the 1960s to today that diverge from hegemonic models of intimate relationships, gender and sexuality, thus bringing forth other, minoritarian understandings of being a couple. The point of departure is a diverse panorama of couples, from man-woman couples (Peter Weibel & VALIE EXPORT, From the Dogness File (Aus der Mappe der Hundigkeit); Daniela Comani, A Happy Marriage (Eine glückliche Ehe)), to man-man couples (Elmgreen & Dragset Untitled, 1995; Falk Richter, Small Town Boy), from woman-woman couples (Split Britches; Annie Sprinkle & Elisabeth Stephens) to trans*-couples (Eva & Adele; Diane Torr & Jane Czyzselska, Ideal Homo). The four couple configurations should not be conceived of being stable or ontologically given, but rather as produced, historical and open. They serve as (heuristic) points of reference, the artworks re- and/or deconstructing them in various ways. The following questions are central for the project: to what extent and with which aesthetic strategies and effects do the artworks examined deconstruct hegemonial models of relationships, gender and/or sexuality and what other, alternative models do they develop? Which social images, forms of representation, stories, styles or genres do they deploy? How do they deal with prejudices, clichés, privilege or discrimination, and to what extent do they develop forms of empowerment? What sorts of characteristics, phases or attributes (such as embodiment, emotions, sexuality, distance/nearness or separation) define relationships in the works examined? What differentiates the various couple configurations from one another, and what are their points of intersection and similarities? The project takes its point of departure in various studies on performativity and gender, whether they be in the fields of Theatre Studies, Art History or Aesthetics, as well as from research on relationships from the Social Sciences, Gender Studies and Cultural Studies. Nevertheless, it attempts to expand on this research and set new accents. On the one hand, the project seeks to develop an aesthetics and politics of couples and duos. On the other hand, it will add artistic and aesthetic considerations to Gender and Relationship Studies, fields dominated by approaches from the Social Sciences.

Projektdetails

Projektart

Forschungsprojekt

Fachgruppe

Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften

Finanzierung

DFG-Zukunftskonzept

Einrichtung

Fachbereich/Zentralinstitut

Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften

Institut/Seminar

Institut für Theaterwissenschaft

Fachgebiet/Arbeitsbereich

Junior Research Groups (JRG) - Beziehungsdynamiken in den Künsten

Projektteam

Leitung

Jun. - Prof. Dr. Jenny Schrödl

Kontakt

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Schlagwörter

Bildende Kunst; Bildende Künstler; Bildende Künstlerinnen; Diversität; Geschlechterforschung; Sexualität; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehungen ; Diversity; Fine Artists; Fine Arts; Gender Studies; Sexualitiy; Social Relations

Forschende

• Jun. - Prof. Dr. Jenny Schrödl

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