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Titre :	Gaze Against Imperialism
Auteurs :	Padraig ROBINSON, Artiste
Type de document :	Livre
Éditeur et lieu d'édition :	[S.l.] : Metaflux Publishing, 2019
ISBN/ISSN/EAN :	978-0-9933272-7-8
Format :	163 p.
Langues:	Anglais
Mots-clés :	ART ARTISTE LGBTQ SOCIETE
Résumé :	This book comes out of an investigation in the Irish Queer Archive, initially tracking tensions between activism and the social economy of the "scene". This is summarised in a 1981 speech by President of the National Gay Federation, David Norris, who warned: "It would be an appalling irony if the net impact of the gay liberation movement was merely to make homosexuality safe for capitalism". The long form text "A Quare Invisibility" opens the book, drawing from a speech by the Other Fellow (a camp and intellectual character in Brendan Behan's 1954 play "The Quare Fellow", set in Mount Joy Prison). Through a Queer Poetics that dissolves clear national borders, A Quare Invisibility is the ear the book. A non-psychoanalytic ear, that is, overly aware of the violence of naming; the dual incarceration of speech; and 'gay' history in the framework of a merely liberated patriarchy. This is followed by eight scenes of scripted dialogue with university librarian Cathal Kerrigan, who was co-founder of the small, early 1980's lobby group 'Gays Against Imperialism'.
Pays de publication :	Irlande
Fonds :	Médiathèque