Thessaloniki Queer Arts Festival
Pieces of a Relocated Body
Curatorial proposal by MAx Provenzano
The perception of identity as an expansive, constructive, reconstructive and deconstructive process led by the multiplicity that technical images can offer. Minorities are constantly finding performative ways to live life and manifest through all tensions and restrictions. Consequently the same queer body can be shaped by fragments that are related and crossed through the screens, devices are mainly used as an extension to communicate in this contemporary society, building and expressing constantly self-representations, backgrounds and feelings; there is an illusion that barriers can disappear by digital mediums and the internet. Nowadays, reality seems to have changed: we are distant and at the same time we are not. The selected works are a combination of performances, actions for the camera and recordings that show different perspectives of identity through this dichotomy, located in distant places but close enough to appreciate.
Selected Artists // works
Bożna Wydrowska // I am going to use this body to become you (2020)
Hannes Egger // Performance Now (2019)
Natasha Nedelkova // Identity Tissues (2020)
Jinxiao Zhou // The Art of Loving Our Selves (2020)
Benedito Ferreira // Bestiário (2020)
Andy James // All in love is fair (2021)