AmiRali Bashiri, Oke Fijal, Dejan Klement, Qafar Rzayev, Mohsin Shafi, Krishna Shanthi, Polina Zaslavskaya

The QUEER MUSEUM VIENNA has launched its first open call for artistic positions on the question “IS QUEER POLITICAL?”, an investigation into the social implications and potential effects of queer cultural production on an international level.

The curatorial collective was looking for artistic works that reflect on this question and analyze and criticize patriarchal normativity, hegemonic hierarchies and capitalist structures.

The submissions came from a wide variety of contexts and showed the broad understanding of politics as a spectrum, ranging from governance structures of nation states to everyday micropolitical modes of action to structures of desire and experiences inscribed in the body.

In view of the many setbacks in the acceptance of queer people and their rights worldwide, as well as the neoliberal structures that fuel social differences, it is all the more important to show courageous artistic positions that question conventional narratives, develop ideas for new utopias and promote transnational solidarity. (Translated with DeepL)

https://www.queermuseumvienna.com/is-queer-political-2/