Queer Contemporary Art of Southwest Asia North Africa

Anne Marie Butler, Sascha Crasnow (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

260 Seiten

2024
Intellect Books (Verlag)
978-1-83595-026-5 (ISBN)

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Presents new perspectives on queer visual culture in the Southwest Asia North Africa region from queer artists as well as scholars who work on queer themes. With contributions from both scholars and artists, this volume demonstrates that queer visual culture in the SWANA region is not only extant, but is also entering an era of exciting growth in terms of its versatility and consciousness. The volume focuses on artworks produced in the contemporary era while recognizing historical and contextual connections to Islamic art and culture within

localities and regions from the pre-modern and modern eras.

By framing this volume as unambiguously located within queer studies, the editors challenge existing literature that merely includes some examples of queer studies or queer representation, but does not necessarily use queer studies as a lens through which to engage with visual culture and/or with the SWANA region. Through four interrelated sections - Gender and Normativity, Trans* Articulations, Intersectional Sexuality, and Queer SWANA - this volume probes several previously unexplored academic areas, namely the intersections of queer studies with other fields.

Part of the Critical Studies in Architecture of the Middle East series.

Anne Marie Butler is assistant professor of art history and women, gender and sexuality at Kalamazoo College, Michigan, USA. Her scholarship focuses on contemporary Tunisian art with an emphasis on gender, sexuality, and the state. Sascha Crasnow is assistant professor of art history at Drake University, USA. Her work centers on contemporary art from the SWANA region with a particular focus on critical race theory, gender, and sexuality.

Foreword: Queer Aesthetics, Opacity, Relationality

Gayatri Gopinath

Introduction: Beyond Borders and Binaries

Anne Marie Butler and Sascha Crasnow

Part I: Unfixed Genders

1. The Reawakening of the Belly Dancer and Queer Revolution

Raed Rafei

2. On Private Lives in Public Spaces

Yasmine Nasser Diaz

3. Futurist Androgynes, Persian Ironies:; Aan Iinterview with Rah Eleh

Proshot Kalami

4. Transing Contemporary Art: Aïcha Snoussi and Khaled Jarrar

Anne Marie Butler and Sascha Crasnow

Part II: Intersectional Sexualities

5. The When, Where, and Why of Intimacy: Codes of Coupling in Egyptian Contemporary Art

Andrew Gayed

6. The Vicissitudes of Self: Storytelling, Queerness, and Muslim Identity

Yasmine K. Kasem

7. I Only Read About Myself on Bathroom Walls and “On Behalf Of: I am an Ottoman but in Name Only”

Qais Assali

8. Out on Display: A Queer Negotiation of Identity and Anonymity in Diaspora

Dylan Volk

9. Of the Confused Memory: Conor Moynihan in Conversation with Mehdi-George Lahlou

Conor Moynihan and Mehdi-Georges Lahlou

Part III: Sites and Spaces

10. Subverting the Script: Queer Domesticity in Nilbar Güreş’s Works

Duygu Oya Ula

11. Heart to Heart: Baseera Khan in Conversation with Yasmine K. Kasem

Baseera Khan and Yasmine K. Kasem

12. Queer Heavens: Rethinking the Islamic Garden in Contemporary Art

Charlotte Bank

13. Viscosities of the known and the unknown بين الماء وبين النار

Gaïa Khalil and Aïcha Snoussi

14. Sa’dia Rehman’s Queer Cartographies: Convivial Opacities

Natasha Bissonauth

Notes on Contributors

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	29.10.2024
Reihe/Serie	Critical Studies in Architecture of the Middle East
Zusatzinfo	46 Halftones, color
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 230 mm
Gewicht	752 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-83595-026-4 / 1835950264
ISBN-13	978-1-83595-026-5 / 9781835950265
Zustand	Neuware