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Styles are codes. They are maps of meaning, as Stuart Hall put it. They can be signs of forbidden identity and sources of value.
For me there is a lust in identifying styles and even bodies as queer. At the same time I am aware that this is a precarious and paradoxical undertaking. Within this area of conflict I have explored questions as What can queer kink styles look or be like? Which personal stories do they tell? To which meanings do they refer - also in relation to class/ification and race/ification? Can they be tools in transgressing gender and disrupting heteronormativity? in interviews with WomenLesbianQueerTrans kinksters and collected visual re/presentations and their stories since 2009.
The material is arranged in different formats - lecture performance, workshop, lecture, debate - presented upon invitations of City University, Hong Kong, Rdeče Zore, Ljubliana, Vereinigung Bildender Künstler*innen Österreich, Vienna and Taxispalais Kunsthalle Tirol, Innsbruck.
