Queer art / Gender studies

Discourses, reflections and documents on performative and choreographic arts today.

Based on an exhibition and conferences that took place in 2012 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, this volume expands on the issues raised by queer art practices through interviews, essays, collages, as well as personal and academic texts.

The publication brings together extensive material from Hamlet, mise-en-scène, an homage to Jack Smith presented at Portikus in 2012, along with recently restored and never-published stills, drawings, and writings by the American filmmaker related to his film Hamlet in the Rented World (A Fragment) (1970-73).

Alberto García del Castillo's first novel is a comedy-science-fiction novelette about “faggotry” and the art world; depicting a retour-au-passé in contemporary painting and waving to some of the most beautiful homosexuals on Earth.

Jean Epstein's complete writings.

Jean Epstein's complete writings.

Jacopo Benassi's collection of eroticized slippers (artist's edition—10 booklets in a handmade wood box set).

Luciano Castelli's self-portraits.

The series of drawings from “Le lac sombre” (“The Dark Lake”) were inspired by an episode from La Peste Brune (The Brown Plague), a written account of Germany in the Thirties by french writer, theorist and activist Daniel Guérin. There he described his encounter with the Wild Boys, a group from the “Wandervögel” movement, a libertarian youth community which crossed Germany and its history from 1896 to 1936.

Walter Pfeiffer's Scrapbooks.

Artist's book (monochrome prints of Terence Koh's haunting photography layered with drawings).

A special (transgender) project by photographer Fabio Paleari and artist Giallo Concialdi, printed in 100 copies only.

A series of drawings illustrating Haldernablou, an homoerotic text by 19-year-old Alfred Jarry and first published in 1894.

The method and genesis of Pierre Molinier's oeuvre (available in English edition).

A triptych tribute.

An erotic series of staged photographs exploring the margins of sexuality, including bondage and fetishism. The use of chiaroscuro shapes the woman's body in a refined and vintage manner, light beams and shadow play contribute to create an atmosphere close to goth & queer aesthetics also close to Pierre Molinier's works.

The "Mnemosyne" of sexual identity.

An ambitious (and heavyweight) series of 500 images of ugly and beautiful objects and lives by Italian artist and photographer Jacopo Benassi.

Written texts and films, interviews, symposia, and essays by a central figure in the history of the New York avant-garde.

A series of 50 unique silkscreens: each figure is a selfportrait of the artist. His head is represented from the front or from the back, showing and hiding the artist identity.

Underground artist's videos compiled in a DVD for the very first time.

A re-edition of the original cult book of well known Swiss photographer.

Erotic drawings of the 60's and 70's in Leningrad.

Reference monograph / artist's book.

Reprint of Kusama's porno-artistic tabloid of 1969.

Unpublished text, signed original screenprint.