Associação Cultural Videobrasil

Edições Sesc-SP & Associação Cultural Videobrasil, 2015/2016
144 pages
portuguese/english

Like feminism, are sexual dissidences and queer activism transforming traditional art history discourses? What is the role of art in the ways gender is experienced and represented? Curated by the Peruvian writer and curator Miguel Angel López, the 11th Caderno Sesc_Videobrasil – An Alliance of Vulnerable Bodies: Feminisms, Queer Activism and Visual Culture looks at how feminism, gay activism, post-pornography and other body-based critical reactions are transforming the discourses of art history and the grammar of art itself. The publication features theoretical essays and visual propositions that revisit queer art initiatives or put forth new views of art history in the light of these critical responses.

Caderno includes two additions: the poster-folder Museu Travestí del Perú, a project by the Peruvian philosopher and drag queen Giuseppe Campuzano (1969-2013) that proposes a critical revision of the history of Peru from the perspective of the fictional figure of the “androgynous indigenous/mestizo transvestite” and a stencil, created by Serigrafistas Queer [the Queer Serigraphers], of the sentence “El machismo mata!” [Sexism kills].

Read excerpts of the publication Caderno Sesc_Videobrasil 11: An Alliance of Vulnerable Bodies: Feminisms, Queer Activism and Visual Culture