Dispersed Practices: Non-Heteronormative Art in „Filo” and „Czereja” Zines
The article is devoted to two magazines: ”Filo”, published from 1986 to 2001 (as a zine until 1990), and ”Czereja”, published from 1992 to 1998. Although their target readership was different and the magazines resulted from different initiatives, both presented and discussed non-heteronormative art....
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
2019-01-01
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| Series: | Miejsce |
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| Online Access: | https://miejsce.asp.waw.pl/en/rozproszone-praktyki/ |
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| Summary: | The article is devoted to two magazines: ”Filo”, published from 1986 to 2001 (as a zine until 1990), and ”Czereja”, published from 1992 to 1998. Although their target readership was different and the magazines resulted from different initiatives, both presented and discussed non-heteronormative art. The goal behind their juxtaposition is to trace the roles and ways of using such artistic practices in both magazines. The approach to analyzing ”Czereja” adopted in the text – against the background of content published in ”Filo”, which participated in the beginnings of the gay movement in Poland – opens up the possibility of determining and highlighting the character and functions that informed the presentation of non-heteronormative art. As opposed to ”Filo”, which developed new modes of representation for the good and in the interests of the community, ”Czereja” adopted a much more contestation-oriented and confrontational character. The key aspects of Filo – particularly in its visual layer – may be discerned in the affirmation of homosexuality as well as opposition to the taboo regarding the male body and its desire. In turn, in ”Czereja”, non-heteronormative artistic practice and the question of queerness were among the areas that made challenging social norms possible. Although these issues were instrumentalized in ”Czereja”, the sheer fact that non-heteronormative content appeared in the field of art and the Academy testifies to the emancipatory character of the zine. |
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| ISSN: | 2956-4158 |