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Boys wear blue, girls pink Opening Wednesday 16th of November 2011, 19hrs 17th - 27th of November 2011 see also The exhibition girls wear pink, boys blue deals with the controversially discussed connection between sex, physicality and performativity. Within this show, a sphere of transdisciplinary theories and political as well as artistic experiences (often described by the keyword queer) is covered – it therefore will contain artistic and a scientific contributions. The work of the US-American philosopher Judith Butler is generally regarded as a starting point and central object of queer-feminist discourse. Within her work she encouraged an anti-essentialist understanding of the body through a radical resolution/disbanding of the antagonism of sex/gender, which emphasizes the linkage of physicality and power and is directed against any biological connection between sex and gender. Thus, the distinction between the anatomical/physical/biological (sex) and the socio-cultural (gender) cannot be maintained - the idea of sex can neither be seen as ahistorical nor as being outside of the discourse. Gender and sexuality are thus to be understood as effects of powerful regulatory mechanisms, and not as natural facts. Since Butler's text "Gender trouble” the term "heterosexual matrix" contains a broad discussion about the triad of biological sex, sexual identity (gender) and desire (sexual practice), which corresponds to the normalized behavior of gender. In particular, the criticism on the logic of exclusion, resulting from the construction of a binary gender structure (man and woman), and heterosexual normalization can thus be understood as a common factor of the heterogeneous nature of contemporary queer-feminist theory and practical work. The violation of the subject is already enrolled in the term queer. The compulsion to preserve the normalized gender-identities within the frame of the heterosexual matrix expresses itself as performative re-enactment of speech acts, behaviors and gestures. This kind of regulation of social interaction binds individuals to certain spots within or beyond narrow categories. Normative categories of identification permanently construct the significant other as abnormal, and thus constantly harm the multiplicity of genders, sexes, bodies and desires. Hence emerges the “gender trouble” (Butler) and the vulnerability of all subjects differing from the heterosexual matrix. This kind of social division exists of course within an interrelationship of other regimes of division (like socio-economical status, ethnicity, color of skin, etc.). The re-enactment of these norms happens indeed within the deep structure of social interaction, but it is not final and never immune to incisions, displacements and grips. Text, Simon Stockinger Erik Alkema, Linda Bannink and Diego Gutierrez (NL)
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