Let’s talk tonight about Close[t] Demonstrations, an interdisciplinary exhibition presenting artists who imagine a new visual politics of queer representation and explore the connection between desires, ways of living, and societal change in visible and/or invisible ways. The exhibition will be showcasing works that address the relationship between the political and the visual, and explore visual aspects of today’s queer lives, struggles, and imaginations. The artworks attempt to unearth the power dynamics, pleasures, and desires involved in queer in-visibility, and the diverse ways queer in-visibilities manifest within (post)colonial, authoritarian, neoliberal, and capitalist regimes. As the title suggests, we want to explore visibilities, invisibilities, and the liminal, and perhaps overlapping, space between them as well as public, collective, and community-based manifestations of discontent and the need for social change. https://closetdemonstrations-gain.univie.ac.at/

My guests tonight are dear Anna T. & Iain

The exhibition is curated by Anna T., an artist, educator, and curator based in Vienna. Her artistic, curatorial, and scholarly work draw from poststructuralism, queer theory, decoloniality, peripherical knowledge, aesthetics, and affect. Since 2003 she has exhibited internationally and has collaborated extensively with academics, activists, and creatives in Greece, the UK, Germany, and Austria. Her monograph Opacity – Minority – Improvisation: An Exploration of the Closet Through Queer Slangs and Postcolonial Theory was published by transcript in 2020.

Iain is trans*siberian activist and researcher with a background in public relations and interpreting. Their passions include queer feminism, trashy emo music and demolishing russian imperialism.

Close[t] Demonstrations

an exhibition on the multitudes of queer in_visibility

Semmelweisklinik: Centre for Arts and Culture, Hockegasse 37/4 1180 Vienna

3 – 24 November 2023

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