Published: 2024-12-20

Queer Arcadia, Neo-Arcadia, and Counter-Arcadia: Queer Contemporary Art and Non-Heteronormative Rurality

Wojciech Szymański Logo ORCID
Section: studies and essays
https://doi.org/10.31261/errgo.16405

Abstract

The aim of the article is to problematize two complementary phenomena: the queer Arcadia and contemporary art practices concerned with the intersection of non-heteronormative sexualities and the rural. The first part of the text is devoted to the history of the concept of queer Arcadia, with special emphasis on the idea of Aaron Betsky’s idea of the third scene/third space. The second part of the essay addresses contemporary reinterpretations of the queer Arcadia in the field of visual arts – especially in Central and Eastern Europe, including Poland. This part discusses the works by three visual artists: Jaanus Samma, Daniel Rycharski, and Małgorzata Mycek, whose works are interpreted vis-à-vis the concepts of (queer) utopia, dystopia and heterotopia, as well as Nancy Fraser’s idea of the subaltern counterpublic.

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Szymański, W. (2024). Queer Arcadia, Neo-Arcadia, and Counter-Arcadia: Queer Contemporary Art and Non-Heteronormative Rurality. Er(r)go. Theory - Literature - Culture, (49), 53–77. https://doi.org/10.31261/errgo.16405

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No. 49 (2024)
Published: 2024-12-30


ISSN: 1508-6305
eISSN: 2544-3186
Ikona DOI 10.31261/errgo

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University of Silesia Press | Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego i Wydawnictwo Naukowe "Śląsk"

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