Lecture by Ladislav Jackson at the Academy of Fine Arts in Szczecin, 13 June 2025 18:00
On Friday 13 June 2025 at 18:00, will take place at the Academy of Fine Arts in Szczecin lecture by Ladislav Jackson on Czech queer art between ethics and aesthetics and its curating.
We got used to calling queer art those visual objects that have an aesthetic appeal primarily to gay cis men. However, if we look at its history through a queer lens, we soon discover that queer art does not necessarily have to be represented by just framed paintings or figurative sculptures, but much more ordinary objects that we would otherwise hardly call as art. The lecture will reflect on the rich material from Czech queer art history and pose a question whether the criteria for queer art are more visual codes that have been appropriated by queer communities across time, or rather social functions in the formation, maintenance and emancipation of queer communities. Using the examples of prominent queer artists, we can also ask how they stood the ethical tests that the history of the 20th century in Central Europe posed for them, how we can work with these questions in curatorial practice and what they can tell us about our contemporary political situation.
The lecture is part of the Erasmus+ programme.
| Author | Mgr. Tímea Vitázková |
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Responsibility: Jana Janečková