Queer and Trans Visual Citations
Session will present: In-Person This panel explores how queer and trans art histories are constructed and preserved through visual citation—defined here as instances where artists incorporate works or visual strategies by other artists into their own work. Queer and trans histories are riddled with stories of persecution, censorship, and erasure, and the method of visual citation is one strategy that queer and trans artists have deployed to resist censorship and erasure. Visual citation also offers members of queer and trans communities ways of communicating with each other that are designed to evade detection by authorities as a way of resisting suppression. These frequently become defining features of queer and trans cultures and a way of creating history. By incorporating each other’s work into their own or appropriating visual tropes within fields that have significant impacts on queer and trans lives, the queer and trans artists presented in this panel assert their existence as more than singular, isolated examples of queerness and transness in a boundless field of art history. This panel brings these artists together to explore the complex and intersectional networks of queer and trans history their works make possible. This panel asks what might art historians learn about queer and trans art histories when we observe the embedded connections between works by queer and trans artists.
Field(s) of Study:
Geographic Area: North America
Geographic Area: Western and Central Europe
Time Period: Twentieth Century
Media: Human Body
Media: Printmaking
Chair:
Cyle Metzger, Bradley University
Abstract Submissions Closed