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ueer (from Eng.):
strange, eccentric, unusual;
Queer –
through
the prism
of the past
and present
Queer art in the modern sense was
formed in the middle of the 20th
century under the influence of two
multidirectional trends: society
forced artists who hid their queer
identity to go underground, but at
the same time there was a need
to reform existing ideas about
norm and openness. “Perhaps
the best way to understand the
meaning of the term “queer” is
to understand that it is, in fact,
an adjective that deliberately
distorts what is attached. This is an
acceptable definition for society
of any “otherness,” writes David J.
Getsy, professor at the Chicago
Institute of Arts and compiler of
Queer anthology, published in the
peculiar;
homosexual. Sometimes
the word is used to refer
to all people who have
a sexual orientation other
than heterosexual. Queer can
be used as a synonym for
concepts – a representative of
the LGBT+ community, or used
in relation to people who do not
want to identify themselves with
a particular gender or sexuality.
Documents of Contemporary
Art series by MIT Press [1].
Modern Berlin is filled with an infinite
number of elements of queer
culture – art objects, clubs, people,
places. Queer culture in Berlin can
be found almost everywhere, and
at the same time, while Berlin is
remaining one of the queer capitals
of Europe, city still goes through
the stages of transformation and
change. Elements of queer culture
can be found even where you are
not specifically looking for it –
moments of history break through
the patchwork of the past of the
city that has been divided by a wall
for almost forty years. The process
of separation of Germany – on