PAŁAC I SZALET. JAK POWSTAWAŁA NOWA MAPA WARSZAWY PRZEZ PRYZMAT QUEEROWEGO POŻĄDANIA W "UPROOTING GHOSTS" RAFAŁA MORUSIEWICZA
The Palace and the Toilet. Re-mapping Warsaw through Queer Desire in Rafał Morusiewicz’s "Uprooting Ghosts"
Author(s): Aleksandra Gajowy
Subject(s): Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010)
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: cruising; Rafał Morusiewicz; Warsaw; haunting; ghosts
Summary/Abstract: This chapter explores cruising and gay masculinities in Polish contemporary art practices which engage with the country’s communist past. I set out the landscape with a discussion of Rafał Morusiewicz’s film Uprooting Ghosts, which affectively engages with narratives of communist Poland, seeking out scattered traces of bodies, embodiment, desire, and sex, to create spaces for imagining and fostering possibilities of queerness in Poland today. By making affective and often desiring connections with an archival subject, Morusiewicz’s work offers a reimagining of sexualities in Poland beyond heteronormativity as their compulsory marker.
Book: Odmieńczość. Obywatelstwo seksualne i archiwum
- Page Range: 123-138
- Page Count: 16
- Publication Year: 2024
- Language: Polish
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