Gastvortrag von Atlanta Ina Beyer am 8.12.21, um 18.30 Uhr online
17.11.2021
Am Mittwoch, den 8. Dezember 2021, von 18.30 bis 20 Uhr hält Dipl.
Kult.arb. Atlanta Ina Beyer einen Gastvortrag, der sich mit männlicher
Homoerotik, Zensur und uneingestandenem Verlangen beschäftigt. Atlanta
Ina Beyer befasst sich mit schwuler männlicher erotischer Kunst in
queeren Punk-Zines im Spannungsverhältnis zu gesetzlichen Regelungen zu
Obszönität und Zensur im Kanada der 1980er Jahre. Die Frage „What are
you looking at?“ dient als Ausgangspunkt, um über die Verstrickungen von
Nacktheit, Blickregime und Normen, Regeln und Gesetzen nachzudenken,
die Körper, Begehren und die Ausdrucksfähigkeit des Subjekts bestimmen.
Die Veranstaltung im Rahmen der Ausstellung „Der nackte Körper – Eine
Frage der Perspektive“ wird organisiert und finanziert von der
Hochschule Rhein-Waal. Aufgrund der hohen Inzidenzzahlen im Zusammenhang mit
der Corona-Pandemie findet die Veranstaltung nicht in Präsenz im Museum Kurhaus
Kleve statt, sondern ausschließlich online. Alle Interessierten können unter
folgendem Link daran teilnehmen:
What are you looking at? Male homoeroticism, censorship, and unacknowledged desires
The Canadian queer punk zine J.D.s played a major role in bringing
about the queercore/queer punk movement in the 1980s. However, it is
also an hommage to the „beefcake“ magazine Physique Pictorial. The
latter was founded by gay photographer Bob Mizer as a supposed
bodybuilder magazine in 1951. Navigating obscenity laws and censorship
for gay male erotic art, Mizer used this trick to publish photographs of
young, athletic, and as nude as possible young men (always depending on
changing censorship regulations). The magazine enabled gay men to look
at and enjoy the male, nude or almost nude body.
When the queer zine makers behind J.D.s started their publications,
obscenity laws in Canada still played a crucial part in determining what
could count as art (and therefore, find a public life), and what was
censored as pornography. These regulations were subject to constant
contestations. The boundary between art and obscenity/pornography, that
gay art has long been forced to navigate, was frequently made a topic of
critical inquiry in J.D.s. However, displays of male homoeroticism and
nudity in this queer punk zine also served to confront, criticize and
undermine hegemonic masculinity in punk and hardcore subcultures. It did
so by suggesting queer meanings and relations in this androcentric,
dominantly cismale culture.
In my lecture, I want to take you on a journey to these different
stations of past queer cultures, art, and critique. The question „What
are you looking at?“ will serve as an entry point to reflect on the
entanglements of nudity, the gaze, and the norms, rules, and laws that
govern bodies, desire, and the enunciability of the subject.