4 documents
# 52
The Elegantly Strong Triad: Defamiliarizing the Family in Works by LaToya Ruby Frazier and Henrik Olesen
Antke Engel
I have felt the age-old triangle of mother father and child, with the “I” at its eternal core, elongate and flatten out into the elegantly strong triad of grandmother mother daughter, with the “I” moving back and forth flowing in either or both directions as needed.
—Audre Lorde, Zami
With this in mind, I approach Henrik Olesen’s multimedia installation Mr. Knife and Mrs. Fork (2009) and LaToya Ruby Frazier’s exhibition of black-and-white photographs, A Haunted Capital…
e-flux Journal
Posted: February 1, 2014
Category
Photography, Installation
Subjects
Family, Queer Art & Theory
# 44
Toxic Assemblages, Queer Socialities: A Dialogue of Mutual Poisoning
Antke Engel and Renate Lorenz
An imposing drag queen in a leopard-print top flaunts her décolleté after the show. She totters through the glitter, tinsel, and pills scattered on the floor and walks over to a massive tropical plant, from which she fishes out a lighter, lights a cigarette, and breaks out in a terrible cough, exhaling glitter from deep in her throat. In the background, a slideshow displays oversized portrait figures wearing fanciful masks made of various trashy but glamorous materials, partly referencing…
e-flux Journal
Posted: April 1, 2013
Category
Performance, Theater
Subjects
Queer Art & Theory, Video Art, Punk, Biography, Pollution & Toxicity, Subjectivity
# 28
Queer Temporalities and the Chronopolitics of Transtemporal Drag
Antke Engel
Life but how to live it —for years the name embellished the wall behind my bed: the place of love and desire, of fears and tears, of fatigue and regeneration. No question mark, thus no searching for sense, or meaning, or technologies. No comma, thus no singling out of some ontological given from the practices of sustaining, endangering, or losing it. Simply the pleasure and pain of engaging in social relations: of bitterly failing while jubilating, and cheering while messing it all up. It…
e-flux Journal
Posted: October 1, 2011
Category
Film, Gender, Sexuality & Eroticism
Subjects
Queer Art & Theory, Temporality, Violence, Punk
# 17
Desire for/within Economic Transformation
Antke Engel
With The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It) (1996), J. K. Gibson-Graham won the hearts of many socialist, post-socialist, and queer-feminist readers. 1 The book’s main argument is that new possibilities for economic transformation will arise once we no longer understand capitalism as a monolithic entity or as covering the whole range of existing economic practices. The argument is taken up again in the more recent book A Postcapitalist Politics : “As we begin to conceptualize contingent…
e-flux Journal
Posted: June 1, 2010
Category
Economy, Capitalism, Psychology & Psychoanalysis
Subjects
Queer Art & Theory, Post-capitalism, Subjectivity