Issue 3/2023
Queer Postsocialist
How can the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, which has been going on for over a year and a half now, be confronted in an artistic-activist way? What cultural networks, in terms of transnational solidarity, but also concrete assistance, have formed in this regard? And what lessons can be learned from the history of post-socialist developments, i.e. the decades since the collapse of state-communist systems in the former East, for the construction of such new solidarity networks? Questions like these form the background of the Queer Postsocialist issue, which attempts to expand the topic addressed in several directions. The title, especially in relation to the current war situation, may at first seem perplexing. But it is precisely in this – the linking of post-socialism, queerness, and, it should be added: various diasporas – t... » read more
Net section
Sehende Steine in alten Industriehallen
Sabine Maria Schmidt
Inszenierte elektronische Sounds als Raumöffner
Stefan Römer
An den Reglern des Leitsystems
Christa Benzer
Virtuelle Performance
Lisa Moravec
„Nonhuman Minds“
Yannick Fritz
Queer Postsocialist
Queer Postsocialist Diasporas
Aesthetic Practices in Times of War and Solidarity
Masha Godovannaya
Wormholes and Archives: Queering Artistic-Research Practices
Maggessi/Morusiewicz
A case of plurality of modes for affective closeness
L.Y.
Freefilmers Mariupol
Zusammengestellt von Oksana Kazmina
Postsocialist Timeslips
A reflection on eponymous compilation of six video artworks from Central Asia and Caucasus at the intersection of postsocialist, queer-feminist and decolonial narratives and imaginaries.
Ruthie Jenrbekova, Maria Vilkovisky
Queering Yugoslavia Now
Dijana Jelača
Queering Split
Tonči Kranjčević Batalić
Slow Dancing with Strangers
Sofía Gallisá Muriente, Natalia Lassalle-Morillo
Relationality as Resistance and Care in the Spaces Between the Mountains
Luis Ortiz, Asodenfa (Adriana Gutierrez Ayala and Edit Gutierrez Ayala), Colectivo Direfentes (Maria Isabel Zuluaga)
Anarchafeminist Coffee Divinations
Işıl Karataş
A discussion on queer diasporic aesthetics1
Katharina Wiedlack, Anna T.
On Dragon Hunt: after Samuel R. Delany
Marko Gutić Mižimakov
7Sin* 2023 – Reimagined
An ode to queer-feminist, post-migrant storytelling
Zara Zandieh
Artscribe
Illiberal Lives
Christoph Chwatal
Marysia Lewandowska – Recording_1989
Patricia Grzonka
Tolia Astakhishvili – The First Finger
Tal Sterngast
Zhanna Kadyrova – Flying Trajectories
Vitalii Atanasov
Natascha Sadr Haghighian– Now that I can hear my eyes hurt (Tumult)
Chris Schinke
mountaincutters – Morphologies souterraines
Milena Dimitrova
Karol Radziszewski – Sebastian im Traum
Kathrin Heinrich
Tanja Widmann – Lying Daughters
Anette Freudenberger
Tschabalala Self – Spaces and Places
Julia Moritz
Books
Nick Land:
Okkultes Denken
Katharina Hausladen
Adom Getachew:
Die Welt nach den Imperien. Aufstieg und Niedergang der postkolonialen Selbstbestimmung
Peter Kunitzky
Kate Beaton UND Jan Bauer:
Ducks – Zwei Jahre in den Ölsanden UNDUnter rotem Staub
Martin Reiterer
Timothy Morton:
The Stuff of Life
Christian Höller