Poking fun
Dildo Play and Camp Aesthetics
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 4516780 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Maggie Unverzagt Goddard (0000-0003-2467-1143, Department of American Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2021 |
| Volumen | 31 |
| Número | 1 |
| Páginas | 59-78 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2021-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | No |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Women & Performance a journal of feminist theory (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0740-770X • E-ISSN: 1748-5819 |
| Editorial | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0740770x.2021.1985275 |
| OpenAlex | W4200289613 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referencias citadas | 37 |
The dildo—capaciously conceived—offers a material site through which artists play out camp aesthetics, a mode of literally and figuratively poking fun at institutionalized theory, genre, and gender and racial codes. This article traces a genealogy of dildonic female body art to situate the dildo in a context of cultural production that foregrounds both its racialization and its tactical use by artists to play and poke—through Nao Bustamante's performance Indigurrito, Xandra Ibarra and Amber Hawk Swanson's collaborative video Untitled Fucking, and Lynda Benglis's Artforum advertisement. Each iteration of the dildo—as burrito, hot sauce bottle, and plastic penis—offers a rubric for understanding its aesthetic work, which this quartet of artists draws out through their critical engagement with camp, messiness, and mockery. Taking up the ways in which whiteness is always produced and naturalized through other modes of racialization, I offer both an addendum to existing scholarship about Benglis's tactical use of the dildo and an elaboration of how the artists theorize and contest hegemonic logics, deconstruct whiteness, and explore new configurations of relationality at the site of the pelvis
Aesthetics · Affordance · Art · CONTEST · Politics · Racialization · Scholarship · Sociology · Visual arts · Cinema and Media Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · History · Music History and Culture · Philosophy · Psychology
Camp
Ugly Feelings
Unmarked
The Explicit Body in Performance
Whiteness as Property
Discipline and Punish
Queering Mestizaje
Countersexual Manifesto
The Cultural Politics of Emotion
Habeas Viscus
The Meanings of Macho
How Machismo Got Its Spurs—in English
Gender Trouble
Sensual Excess
Like a Girl's Name
Guilty Pleasures
Abject Performances
Nicki-aesthetics
The Vulnerability Artist
Trap Door
Freud's "Fetishism" and the Lesbian Dildo Debates
Citizen Restaurant
Dances with Things
I Want a Girl, Just Like the Girl that Married Harry James
The Queer Art of Failure
Performative Acts and Gender Constitution
Whiteness of a Different Color
| Velocidad de citación | historical |
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| Altamente citado | No |