Anna Stielau
Biographic Data
| ID | 820191 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Stielau |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Stielau |
| SIGNATURE | STIELAU A |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Radical Decomposition
For understandable reasons, global discourses around queer, feminist, and decolonial activism are unified by an emphasis on action, the agential, and the productive. Doing is what matters most, hence the critical focus of this special issue on how the doing gets done, or the forms that most effectively transmit action. However, these discourses risk reproducing the hard binaries by which political activity has historically been assessed, includin…
About the Artist
The cover art for this issue is drawn from the 2021 Johannesburg exhibition conditions by Zambian/South African artist Nolan Oswald Dennis. Like much of Dennis's interdisciplinary practice, both of the featured pieces employ the model as a key form and method for reimagining the world. Together, model for theia and model for an endless column (suspended) are training objects for what the artist calls “a black consciousness of space,” which is to …
Towards a queer futurity
Much scholarship into non-normative sexualities on the African continent maintains a pragmatic focus on the deployment of queer identities in the here and now, configuring an African lived experience in the present tense. This inclination extends into analyses of visual culture engaging with notions of sexual and gender dissidence. Using the work of queer theorist José Esteban Muñoz as a point of departure, I suggest another approach to culture w…
Towards a queer futurity
Much scholarship into non-normative sexualities on the African continent maintains a pragmatic focus on the deployment of queer identities in the here and now, configuring an African lived experience in the present tense. This inclination extends into analyses of visual culture engaging with notions of sexual and gender dissidence. Using the work of queer theorist José Esteban Muñoz as a point of departure, I suggest another approach to culture w…
Towards a queer futurity
Much scholarship into non-normative sexualities on the African continent maintains a pragmatic focus on the deployment of queer identities in the here and now, configuring an African lived experience in the present tense. This inclination extends into analyses of visual culture engaging with notions of sexual and gender dissidence. Using the work of queer theorist José Esteban Muñoz as a point of departure, I suggest another approach to culture w…
Radical Decomposition
For understandable reasons, global discourses around queer, feminist, and decolonial activism are unified by an emphasis on action, the agential, and the productive. Doing is what matters most, hence the critical focus of this special issue on how the doing gets done, or the forms that most effectively transmit action. However, these discourses risk reproducing the hard binaries by which political activity has historically been assessed, includin…
About the Artist
The cover art for this issue is drawn from the 2021 Johannesburg exhibition conditions by Zambian/South African artist Nolan Oswald Dennis. Like much of Dennis's interdisciplinary practice, both of the featured pieces employ the model as a key form and method for reimagining the world. Together, model for theia and model for an endless column (suspended) are training objects for what the artist calls “a black consciousness of space,” which is to …
Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · African history and culture studies (1 work) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (1 work) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work) · Argument (complex analysis (1 work) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (1 work)