Vaginal Davis og mobiliseringen af freaken

Disidentifikation i kortfilmen That Fertile Feeling

Forfattere

  • alfi vest

Resumé

Resumé
Med udgangspunkt i Vaginal Davis’ kortfilm That Fertile Feeling fra 1983 undersøger jeg freaken som en sort queer politisk figur ved at spore dens rødder i racistiske og patriarkalske ideologier. Ved at anvende José Muñoz’ begreber om disidentifikation og modoffentligheder diskuterer jeg, hvordan Davis’ performances skaber en hybrid identitet, der udfordrer dominerende fortællinger og udvikler æstetikker som drag, punk og camp for det sorte queer subjekt.

Abstract
Focusing on Vaginal Davis’s 1983 short film That Fertile Feeling, I examine the freak as a black queer political figure, tracing its roots in racist and patriarchal ideologies. Using José Muñoz’s concepts of disidentification and counter publics, I highlight how Davis’s performances enact a hybrid identity, challenging dominant narratives and reappropriating aesthetics like drag, punk, and camp for the black queer subject.

Forfatterbiografi

alfi vest

alfi vest har en bachelor i europæisk etnologi og en kandidat i moderne kultur og kulturformidling. I øjeblikket arbejder de som stagehands og er i gang med at udvikle en hjemmeperformance. Nærværende artikel er en formidling af vests kandidatspeciale: Ida Vest Hebsgaard: Being weird, being sick, being backward: The mobilization of the freak as a political figure. Speciale, Københavns Universitet 2021.

Referencer

Davis, V. 1983. That Fertile Feeling. Directed by K. Holland and J. Quasi O’Shea. Featuring Vaginal Davis, Fertile La Toyah Jackson, and Johnny Dark. Amoeba Records and Film Works. Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQdv2_G2Ci0&t=940s [Tilgået 06.03.2024].

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6Ej9inqGg0 [Tilgået 06.03.2024].

Davis, V. 2016. Sassafras, Cypress and Indigo – Black Screen Images and the (E)motive Notion of Freakiness. Tanzkongress. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQdv2_G2Ci0&t=940s [Tilgået 08.03.2024].

Dunham, C. G. 2015 “The ‘Terrorist Drag’ of Vaginal Davis”, In: The New Yorker, 12. december 2015. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/terrorist-drag-vaginal-davis [Tilgået 08.10.2024].

Goodman, E. 2019. “How Vaginal Davis Remade the DIY Art World in Her Image.” In: them, 19. marts 2019. https://www.them.us/story/vaginal-davis [Tilgået 08.03.2024].

Participant Inc. 2012. Press material. “Vaginal Davis HAG–small, contemporary, haggard”, oktober 2012. http://participantinc.org/seasons/season-11/hag [Tilgået 09.03.2024].

Pinto, A. T. 2022. “Vaginal Davis: Eden Eden.” In: Artforum, Vol. 60. No. 8, April 2022. https://www.artforum.com/events/vaginal-davis-2-249714/ [Tilgået 09.03.2024].

Wachter-Grene, K. 2020. “A Scene of Her Own: The Inimitable Vaginal Davis.” In: The Black Scholar, 16 April 2020. https://www.theblackscholar.org/a-scene-of-her-own-the-inimitable-vaginal-davis/ [Tilgået 09.02.2024].

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Publiceret

2024-11-12

Citation/Eksport

vest, alfi. (2024). Vaginal Davis og mobiliseringen af freaken : Disidentifikation i kortfilmen That Fertile Feeling. Peripeti, 21(36), 74–86. Hentet fra https://tidsskrift.dk/peripeti/article/view/150910