Abstract

ARRUDA, Lin. Trans-lesbianizing the gaze: representations posed on the edge of art. Rev. Estud. Fem. [online]. 2015, vol.23, n.1, pp.229-238. ISSN 1806-9584.  https://doi.org/10.1590/0104-026X2015v23n1p229.

By reclaiming failure, inadequacy, marginality and negativity as distinctive characteristics of queer projects and queer subjective constructions, this essay suggests that there is a marginal lesbian/trans imaginary being formulated within the counter-artistic Brazilian projects entitled "Pegadinha Les-Bi-Trans", "Sapatoons Queerdrinhos" and "Eu vejo lésbicas em todos os lugares". By analyzing the subversive potentials imposed by negative and post-identity based auto-representative strategies employed within autonomous projects located in the borders of the authorized institutions of knowledge production (such as the art systems), I analyze the creation of a translesbianizing gaze, which is able to destabilize heterocapitalistic rhetorics and visualities.

Keywords : Queer Art; Representation; Lesbian; Transgender; Marginality.

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