Counter-Monumentality. Tracing Histories of Homophobia and Queer Resistance in Publicly Sited Art

Schedule

Sat Sep 21 2024 at 02:00 pm to 03:00 pm

Location

Nationalmuseum | Stockholm, ST

I det här konsthistoriska seminariet diskuterar Mathias Danbolt, professor i konsthistoria vid Köpenhamns universitet, den senaste tidens queera vändning mot minne och minnesarbete genom att fokusera på hur skulpturer och monument i en gay cruising-park i centrala Köpenhamn bär spår av historier om queert motstånd. På engelska.
Tid: Lördag 21 september kl 14:00-15:00
Plats: Södra ljusgården, entréplan
Språk: Engelska
Kostnad: Gratis
Ingen förbokning, begränsat antal platser.
When Ørstedsparken opened in the 1880s, the public was also exposed to a series of fourteen copies of bronze sculptures from Greek and Roman antiquity. Since then, these sculptures have been witnesses and bystanders to more than a century of sexual encounters, homophobic violence, and queer resistance.
This talk zooms in on a series of interventions in the park in 1984 by the gay activist group Bøssernes Befrielses Front, who painted sexual symbols and gay activist slogans on all the monuments in the park, in order to address how public monuments can function as a surface for public negotiations of gender and sexual norms and practices.
The 45 minutes lecture will be followed by a short conversation about the artist Vaginal Davis and her ongoing Stockholm-exhibitions between Mathias Danbolt and Hendrik Folkerts, curator at Moderna Museet.
More info on the lecture:
https://www.nationalmuseum.se/konsthistoriskt-seminarium-queer-counter-monumentality-tracing-histories-of-homophobia-and-queer-resistance-in-publicly-sited-art-med-mathias-danbolt
More info on the Vaginal Davis-exhibitions:
https://www.nationalmuseum.se/utst%C3%A4llningar/vaginal-davis

Where is it happening?

Nationalmuseum, Södra Blasieholmshamnen,Stockholm, Sweden

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