Theorists and artists from Jack Halberstam to Peter Rehberg
consider the fruitful cross-pollination of video, punk, queerness and
gender politics
Since the 1970s, the
medium of video has been closely associated with subcultural and
countercultural movements. Art and music videos in particular have
showed great subversive potential, as artists and musicians use the
medium to explore and transgress social norms and gender stereotypes.
The essays in this publication consider artistic strategies in the
context of the history of punk and its offshoots, combining scholarly
opinions from the fields of art history, queer theory, media studies,
gender studies, postcolonial studies and cultural studies alongside
field reports from the practice of alternative archives and visual
essays.
Authors include:
Kathrin Dreckmann, Marina Grzinic, Jack Halberstam, Josefine
Hetterich, Angela McRobbie, Jennifer Ramme, Peter Rehberg, Marion
Schulze, Elfi Vomberg and Katharina Wiedlack.