Corps transitoires, images errantes. Steven Cohen, the Wandering queer

In a retrospective approach of the whole work of the visual and performance artist Steven Cohen (1962‑ …), this paper questions different forms of transition which appears in it and contribute to transform the artist into an original “wandering queer”. Firstly, based on a focus on the performance an...

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Main Author: Yann-Guewen Basset
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Language:fra
Published: Centre d´Histoire et Théorie des Arts 2023-10-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/imagesrevues/14110
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description In a retrospective approach of the whole work of the visual and performance artist Steven Cohen (1962‑ …), this paper questions different forms of transition which appears in it and contribute to transform the artist into an original “wandering queer”. Firstly, based on a focus on the performance and installation The Wandering Jew (2010) through its traces, the author consider how the mythical figure of the wandering jew influence Cohen’s aesthetic and affect his relation to space, movement, gender and history, going far beyond a simple reference to Jewish culture. From public activism to perfoming arts, from visual or cinematographic to real presence, interweaving traumatic memories (Apartheid, Shoah), Steven Cohen defines a specific queer aesthetic, based on dispersion and ectasis rather than only gender subversion or parody.
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Corps transitoires, images errantes. Steven Cohen, the Wandering queer
Images Re-Vues
performance
steven cohen
transition
identity
body scenography
title Corps transitoires, images errantes. Steven Cohen, the Wandering queer
title_full Corps transitoires, images errantes. Steven Cohen, the Wandering queer
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steven cohen
transition
identity
body scenography
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