X is an annual magazine focusing on visual culture and experimental literature: a collective artwork, a material flow of reality that eludes any prediction. X freezes on paper the power of contemporary art and writing, welcoming with joy the delirum of participating in such pursuits. Pain, battles, sequences of errors, vanished memories and unwanted prophecies; X is born because we can still be against everything and also against ourselves.

The book is the outcome of research on the themes of sex, sexuality and performativity which started in summer 2019 and was concluded in autumn 2021. The investigation starts from a curatorial perspective, situated in the field of contemporary Italian visual and performing arts, and evolves by absorbing contents from a variety of disciplines (philosophy, literature, history and pornography). The research is based on the firm conviction – here turned into a method – that a critical theory able to go beyond the disciplinary compartments of knowledge is an important practical tool for facing the political challenges of our contemporary world.

Los Angeles Studio Conversations ist der vierte Band einer laufenden Interviewserie, die 2013 von der Kunsthistorikerin Stephanie Buhmann in New York ins Leben gerufen wurde. Mit bislang siebzig bis publizierten Gesprächen zielt dieses Projekt darauf ab, ein permanentes und wachsendes Forum für internationale zeitgenössische Künstlerinnen zu schaffen.
Los Angeles Studio Conversations stellt die folgenden Künstlerinnen vor: Lita Albuquerque, Sarah Cain, Andrea Fraser, Liza Lou, Shana Lutker, Kristen Morgin, Catherine Opie, Silke Otto-Knapp, Monique Prieto, Alison Saar, Analia Saban, Fran Siegel, Lisa C. Soto, Despina Stokou, und Diana Thater.

A multifaceted play with language and meaning can be grasped in their work and exhibition titles. In their practice, they have been working against the grain of some of the art world’s conventions, from medium specificity to questions of branding and commodification.

Selbstinszenierung, Selbstentblößung, Selbstauslöschung – das sind die Themen, die Michaela Moscouw (*1961) über drei Jahrzehnte kompromisslos, exzessiv und einprägsam bearbeitete. Bis Anfang der 1980er-Jahre malte die Wiener Künstlerin abstrakte Bilder, dann zerstörte sie ihr gesamtes Werk und filmte sich dabei. Damit wechselte sie das Medium und verwendete

In Fischerspooner's new project, two things remain constant: the physical space--Casey Spooner's apartment--and the cast--the artists

The currently favored image of the Weimar Republic is constructed as a liberal one that emphasizes the individual freedom to shape one’s life. Meanwhile, the collectivist face of the workers’ movement and the artists inspired by it were and are mostly ignored.

The summer 2020 issue of Mizna is guest edited by Zeyn Joukhadar and speaks to bodily autonomy, embodiment, and self-determination within a queer, transgender, SWANA, and Muslim lens. Mizna: Queer + Trans Voices bears witness to our rich history, and imagines futures for ourselves.

FAGS is a photo book by Jacopo Benassi. It brings together images in which the artist portrays and documents his own intimacy over a 25-year period, from the day he announced his homosexuality: a human journey comprising meetings that have left an indelible sign on his personal story as an artist.

Soggetto nomade (Nomadic Subject) gathers, for the first time in one volume, shots taken by five Italian photographers between the mid 60s to the 80s. The photographs are

Modefotografie existiert nur über das Frauenmagazin. Die Geschichte dieses fotografischen Genres ist daher mit der der Frauenpresse verbunden. Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts, als die ersten Frauenzeitschriften erschienen, war die Fotografie noch immer nur eine Hilfsillustration.

Bodies are agents and products of history. Bodies are history made flesh, but they are also primary tools for understanding the past, present and future. History is a choreographed sequence of gestures that makes bodies intelligible to each other. Every gesture is a link in a chain binding us to gender, race and social class. Gestures solidify into identities. They enact identities that become natural through the systematic repetition of identical

The site of the leather bar Eagle LA, in Los Angeles, has been home to three highly popular leather bars over the decades: the Shed, the Outcast, and the Gauntlett II. The Eagle LA, opened in 2005, follows a long-standing tradition of leather fetish and uniform, set forth by leather Eagle bars around the country.

Die in diesem Band gesammelten Vorträge sind Teil einer von der Universität für angewandte Kunst im letzten Jahr organisierten Reihe, die diesen Themenbereich insbesondere mehr in den Mittelpunkt des Interesses der Studierenden rücken sollte.

Alberto García del Castillo writes genre fiction and nonfiction about communities and queer, performs his own and other people’s writings, and collaborates in multiple configurations.

The unravelment of the fundamental conditions of the possibility of interpretation is needed not for getting outside the circle, but for staying within in the right way. (English)

The inaugural issue of Basso Magazine delves into the intricate interplay between art, identity, and corporeality.

Homosexuelle Frauen und Männer gehören bis heute zu den oft vergessenen Opfern des Nationalsozialismus. Über ihr Schicksal, ihre Verfolgung und ihren Alltag ist wenig bekannt.

Das Nackte ist ein ureigenes Phänomen der europäischen Kultur, das alle Länder, Epochen und Künste des Okzidents verbindet. In der Skulptur, der Malerei und der Photographie des Westens, von Griechen über die Renaissance bis zur Photographie etwa eines Ralph Gibson: der Akt gehört zu den größten Herausforderungen der Künste. Selbst die Kirche verbarg zwar das Geschlecht, doch bewahrte das Nackte.

This book explores each site in five chapters of photographic images, primarily by AA Bronson, together with a brilliant and often humorous reflection on queer animals, forest rangers, shamanism, and park sex by Peter Hobbs. A group of drawings by Chicago artist Elijah Bergher completes the volume.

ROHSTOFF. Eine filmhistorische Recherche nach der kleinen Form Vol #1 -3

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In 2012, Iosca inherited a trunk filled with gay pornography from a friend of a friend who had died of AIDS nearly a decade earlier.

Als Warren Fischer und Casey Spooner ihr Kunst-, Musik-, und Performanceprojekt FISCHERSPOONER 1998 in New York ins Leben riefen, hatten sie eine Mission: Die zugeknöpfte, elitäre Kunstszene sollte offener und zugänglicher werden.

This publication shows the works of Frederick Charles Herko.

In the years since Stonewall, the world has witnessed an outpouring of research, critical inquiry, and re-interpretation of gay life and culture. This book draws on groundbreaking new material to present a comprehensive survey of all things gay.

The artist book consists of three different photography series MEMENTO MORIENDUM ESSE 2012 In this five-part series, shot in dark locations, the photographer uses a hard light flash to capture the reflections of shiny leather jackets on the backs of various men.

Manfred Paul is one of the main exponents of “auteur photography”, and as a teacher he opened the eyes of several generations of photographers and designers. The work "En passant" was created “in passing” in the period from 1986 to 1990 in East Berlin.

»You Would« – Du würdest – lässt sich als Aufforderung, Einladung, als eine mögliche Handlungsanweisung für jene lesen, die sich der Verwandlung hingeben und ins Licht der Kamera treten. Der Titel des neuen Fotobuchs von Matthias Hamann ist einem Graffito auf einer Mülltonne in New York entlehnt, das der Künstler auf seinen Streifzügen durch die amerikanische Metropole festgehalten hat. Tagebuchartig dokumentiert der Autor seine Eindrücke beim Flanieren