Trans-Lesbianizing the Gaze: Representations Posed on the Edge of Art

Authors

  • Lin Arruda Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/%25x

Abstract

By reclaiming failure, inadequacy, marginality and negativity as distinctive characteristics of queer projects and queer subjective constructions, this essay suggests that there is a marginal lesbian/trans imaginary being formulated within the counter-artistic Brazilian projects entitled “Pegadinha Les-Bi-Trans”, “Sapatoons Queerdrinhos” and “Eu vejo lésbicas em todos os lugares”. By analyzing the subversive potentials imposed by negative and post-identity based auto-representative strategies employed within autonomous projects located in the borders of the authorized institutions of knowledge production (such as the art systems), I analyze the creation of a translesbianizing gaze, which is able to destabilize heterocapitalistic rhetorics and visualities.

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Published

2015-03-09

How to Cite

Arruda, L. (2015). Trans-Lesbianizing the Gaze: Representations Posed on the Edge of Art. Revista Estudos Feministas, 23(1), 229–238. https://doi.org/10.1590/%x

Issue

Vol. 23 No. 1 (2015)

Section

Dossiers

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