Ort: ICI Berlin, Christinenstr. 18–19, Haus 8, 10119 Berlin

Organisiert von Hanna Hamel (ZfL), Apostolos Lampropoulos (Université Bordeaux Montaigne), Peter Rehberg (Schwules Museum)

Kontakt: Hanna Hamel

ZfL-Projekt(e): Nachbarschaften in der Berliner Gegenwartsliteratur

Vortrag von Tim Dean (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) im Rahmen der Online-Vortragsreihe Intimacy, mit Ben Nichols und Peter Rehberg

Queer-theoretical accounts of intimacy in particular have been decisively shaped by readings of art and literature and psychoanalytic reflection. In this context, Tim Dean’s 2009 Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking has presented a crucial intervention. For Dean, the practice of condom-less sex and ‘breeding’ becomes a place to reinvent community and ethics. For the past ten years, Dean’s thinking has evolved around questions of infection, pharmaceutical regimes, and the forms of the self and the social that come with them. His talk “How to Have Sex in a Pandemic” echoes the title of Douglas Crimp’s seminal 1987 essay about AIDS “How to Have Promiscuity in an Epidemic?”

This lecture series takes queer theory’s conversation about intimacy as a starting point to discuss some of its cultural possibilities, mediated forms, and philosophical trajectories in the context of Corona. It is part of the public program of the exhibition Intimacy: New Queer Art from Berlin and Beyond at Schwules Museum.

Eine Kooperation zwischen ICI Berlin, dem ZfL-Projekt Stadt, Land, Kiez. Nachbarschaften in der Berliner Gegenwartsliteratur und dem Schwulen Museum. Gefördert aus Mitteln des Hauptstadtkulturfonds.

Vortragssprache ist Englisch.

Die Veranstaltung findet online via Zoom statt.

zur Registrierung (ab 12.04.2021)