Featured Event
DEMO2024
06/05/2024
11AM
Conversations
Exhibitionist Tendencies: The Past and Present of Sexuality, Gender, and Race in Art
Bringing together four visionary artists, this discussion will explore the display and production of racialized sexuality and gender. The conversation will feature panelists M. Lamar, Richard Fung, Tourmaline, and Xandra Ibarra, and will be moderated by scholar Amber Jamilla Musser.
Coinciding with the twentieth anniversary of José Esteban Muñoz’s critical text Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics (1999), this panel will consider the history and politics of representing race, sex, and the body. Rather than privileging explicit sex as the primary index of aesthetic or political radicality, we will analyze how explicit and implicit forms of racialized sexuality and gender can be understood as historically shifting. The work of these artists allows us to locate differences between explicit depictions of sex common in the 1980s and ’90s and the multiple ways of exhibiting bodies today. As the lines that distinguish between public and private are recast and new understandings of gender emerge, the exhibitionist tendencies of the past have both expanded and become more nuanced.
This panel is organized in association with the New Museum’s Critical Anthologies in Art and Culture book series, copublished by the New Museum and MIT Press. Content from this discussion will be featured in the Museum’s forthcoming volume on race and the question of representation, coedited by C. Riley Snorton and Hentyle Yapp.
Sponsors
Support for Critical Anthologies in Art and Culture is provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
The Council for Artists Research and Residencies of the New Museum is gratefully acknowledged.
Education and Public Engagement programs at the New Museum are made possible, in part, by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts. Endowment support is provided by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund; the Skadden, Arps Education Programs Fund; and the William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund for Education Programs at the New Museum.
