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Tim Dean: How to Have Sex in a Pandemic
Vortrag
26.04.2021 · 19.00 Uhr
Tim Dean: How to Have Sex in a Pandemic
Ort: ICI Berlin, Christinenstr. 18–19, Haus 8, 10119 Berlin
Organisiert von Hanna Hamel (ZfL), Apostolos Lampropoulos (Université Bordeaux Montaigne), Peter Rehberg (Schwules Museum)
Kontakt: Hanna Hamel
ZfL-Projekt(e): Nachbarschaften in der Berliner Gegenwartsliteratur
Vortrag von Tim Dean (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) im Rahmen der Online-Vortragsreihe Intimacy, mit Ben Nichols und Peter Rehberg
Queer-theoretical accounts of intimacy in particular have been decisively shaped by readings of art and literature and psychoanalytic reflection. In this context, Tim Dean’s 2009 Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking has presented a crucial intervention. For Dean, the practice of condom-less sex and ‘breeding’ becomes a place to reinvent community and ethics. For the past ten years, Dean’s thinking has evolved around questions of infection, pharmaceutical regimes, and the forms of the self and the social that come with them. His talk “How to Have Sex in a Pandemic” echoes the title of Douglas Crimp’s seminal 1987 essay about AIDS “How to Have Promiscuity in an Epidemic?”
This lecture series takes queer theory’s conversation about intimacy as a starting point to discuss some of its cultural possibilities, mediated forms, and philosophical trajectories in the context of Corona. It is part of the public program of the exhibition Intimacy: New Queer Art from Berlin and Beyond at Schwules Museum.
Eine Kooperation zwischen ICI Berlin, dem ZfL-Projekt Stadt, Land, Kiez. Nachbarschaften in der Berliner Gegenwartsliteratur und dem Schwulen Museum. Gefördert aus Mitteln des Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
Vortragssprache ist Englisch.
Die Veranstaltung findet online via Zoom statt.
Abb. oben: © Spyros Rennt: Hanging out at Ludos, 2020 (Detail), Teil der Ausstellung »Intimacy: New Queer Art from Berlin and Beyond« im Schwulen Museum
Programm
Online-Vortragsreihe Intimacy
In the time of Corona, intimacy is precarious: as an experience we are in danger of losing, but also one we are nostalgically mourning or re-imagining for a future to come. What does a pandemic and its cultural, social, and technological consequences, such as the protection from others and the disappearance of social encounters and bodily contact, teach us about intimacy? How does Covid-19 change our understanding of intimate moments?
In the context of queer culture and theory, intimacy has had a peculiar position for quite some time. For intimacy is not necessarily the scene in which identities are formed or affirmed. Queer theory has emphasized intimacy as a site where identity is left behind and new forms of the self can emerge, for example in forms of public sex, or what Leo Bersani calls ‘impersonal intimacy.’ One might say that intimacy itself is a queer phenomenon.
