Theory of the Queer Identities’ Representation in the Contemporary East-European Art and Culture
Guest lecture by Saša Kesić, Belgrade organized by Marina Grzinic, Post Conceptual Study Program.
The lecture will focus on the topic of queer identities and performativity, which he will analyze through a few case studies: Pride Parade as a form of manifestation (as a problem of trauma representation in contemporary culture), gender body and queer body representations in visual arts, and gender and queer body representations in mass media.
CV: Saša Kesić (1983) is a PhD student at the Department for Theory of Art and Media, University of Arts in Belgrade. Currently he is doing a research at The Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Conceptual Art study program/IBK, as he has been awarded the Ernst Mach Worldwide scholarship in duration of nine months. Having MA in music pedagogy, he also works as a music teacher in “Vatroslav Lisinski” Music school in Belgrade. Kesić has published articles: “Antonio Gramsci”, in Marxist Aesthetics, Philosophy and Theory of Art , ed. N. Dedić, Orion Art, Belgrade (2015); “Queer Calendars: Art-Activist Project of Contemporary Art Transition ”, in AM Journal of Art and Media Studies no. 8, Faculty of Media and Communications, Belgrade (2015), etc.