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This lecture explores how visual representations of bodies intersect with race, gender, and other social markers, examining their role as sites of pedagogy, knowledge production, and visual literacy in art history and contemporary visual culture. It examines how gendered and racialized bodies were historically constructed and regulated through Western visual regimes shaped by colonial, patriarchal, and Eurocentric epistemologies.
Within an intersectional gender perspective and Critical Race Studies, the lecture approaches images as dispositifs that shape subjectivity, circulate power, and transmit norms in art history, museums, and visual culture.
The lecture unfolds through three strands:
1. The first examines colonial and Eurocentric visual norms, including racialized and gendered identities in canonical art history, colonial imagery, and scientific discourses, exploring mechanisms such as fetishization, fixation, invisibility, and othering.
2. The second examines how gender, race, and other markers intersect in representations, analyzing how power, desire, and normativity operate historically and in the present.
3. The third examines visual culture and art history as sites of identity, memory, and colonial legacy.
Artistic practices from the Global South are analyzed through an intersectional lens, highlighting counter-visual narratives that challenge dominant representations and reveal continuities, ruptures, and transformations.
Content This lecture explores how visual representations of bodies intersect with race, gender, and other social markers, examining their role as sites of pedagogy, knowledge production, and visual literacy in art history and contemporary visual culture. It examines how gendered and racialized bodies were historically constructed and regulated through Western visual regimes shaped by colonial, patriarchal, and Eurocentric epistemologies. Within an intersectional gender perspective and Critical Race Studies, the lecture approaches images as dispositifs that shape subjectivity, circulate power, and transmit norms in art history, museums, and visual culture. The lecture unfolds through three strands: 1. The first examines colonial and Eurocentric visual norms, including racialized and gendered identities in canonical art history, colonial imagery, and scientific discourses, exploring mechanisms such as fetishization, fixation, invisibility, and othering. 2. The second examines how gender, race, and other markers intersect in representations, analyzing how power, desire, and normativity operate historically and in the present. 3. The third examines visual culture and art history as sites of identity, memory, and colonial legacy. Artistic practices from the Global South are analyzed through an intersectional lens, highlighting counter-visual narratives that challenge dominant representations and reveal continuities, ruptures, and transformations. During the lecture, we will have a lecture with Dr. Henrie Dennis, Weltmuseum, Wien.
Content This lecture explores how visual representations of bodies intersect with race, gender, and other social markers, examining their role as sites of pedagogy, knowledge production, and visual literacy in art history and contemporary visual culture. It examines how gendered and racialized bodies were historically constructed and regulated through Western visual regimes shaped by colonial, patriarchal, and Eurocentric epistemologies. Within an intersectional gender perspective and Critical Race Studies, the lecture approaches images as dispositifs that shape subjectivity, circulate power, and transmit norms in art history, museums, and visual culture. The lecture unfolds through three strands: 1. The first examines colonial and Eurocentric visual norms, including racialized and gendered identities in canonical art history, colonial imagery, and scientific discourses, exploring mechanisms such as fetishization, fixation, invisibility, and othering. 2. The second examines how gender, race, and other markers intersect in representations, analyzing how power, desire, and normativity operate historically and in the present. 3. The third examines visual culture and art history as sites of identity, memory, and colonial legacy. Artistic practices from the Global South are analyzed through an intersectional lens, highlighting counter-visual narratives that challenge dominant representations and reveal continuities, ruptures, and transformations. During the lecture, we will have a lecture with Dr. Henrie Dennis, Weltmuseum, Wien.
- Teacher: Gisella