Dekonstruktion von Zweigeschlechtlichkeit - anita.a.mörth

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some sort of pretty radical positions in arts, in culture, in cinema. I think especially cinema is, why you
know the gender studies in Krakau where I used to teach, were developed in the cinema studies. Not
whatever at the sociology or something. It was just the cinema studies, somebody how invented this
was a filmwissenschaftler. So yeah, the language, the vocabulary which is [gender?] to make a usage
of this acceleration which is able to take into consideration almost a caricature-like influence of media
on peoples consciousness. Like all those magazines, all those sitcoms, all those soap operas - all these
margins of pop culture. This kind of caricature of practice of everyday life. This is not the favourite
title of mine. Because people are imprisoned in this. This is the prison of their minds, and they can't
get rid of this. This is a tv-monitor and a kiosk where they buy all those tabloids and all that. And it is
also this carnivalesque celebrity status, which invites all disciplines of our life, it is not only about
Hollywood cinema, it concerns all fields. And this changes our language, and everybody is changing
because of this at the same time.
A: It shapes our thinking.
AB: yeah. And I think if you consider everything, all these sort of ingredients, of this new vocabulary
then -
The most difficult is for me to take up a challenge of setting up a name, which would be really to
create a balance in this discourse. What is male, what is female, to what extent this is male or this is
female, how much female we have, how much male we have in quantity terms, what dominates what.
A: Within a person?
AB: No, within a discourse, within your experience, in a construction of society. If you apply this
quantitative approach. We have first two female curators after one hundred years of an existence of
this. Thank you very much. And so on and so on.
And then if you still continue talking about those hierarchies and about the dominance of the male
position, of the male voice or something - then you gonna be trapped again in this.
A: What about the fact, that women earn two thirds of what a man earns doing the same job, having
the same qualifications? - this is kind of a reality.
AB: But I think what is introducing certain change is we just got queer studies. Because this is not so
obsessed with this division, it is introducing this more, there are more so blurred cases, and there is
no obsession or paranoia about the identity, which is reduced to this binary opposition, and there is
an identity which is more kind of polyphonic in its structure. The positions are shifted, the focus is
shifted. And the very notion of the queer which you cannot really identify, which you cannot define it's
a very much language problem again, because it's not translatable, in polish you can't translate queer.
I dont know how it is in german.
A. It's here the same.
AB: So this is this construct, which, may be when I was talking about this topic attempted creating a
language and getting over those old stereotypical oppositions - this is this sort of, that's the good
example, the queer. Because for this you have to build a totally new definition. And while you are
building this definition you are building a new way of thinking about this what you want to define with
this. Queer is not only about whether you are male or female, it is about sexuality. This is a kind of
larger notion of identity, which includes more than what sex are you of. And what is also your sexual
orientation and all that. Is there any queer studies in Austria?
A: Some things in Vienna going on, not really here in Graz
AB: It's a pity because 3 weeks ago there was here a very good friend of mine, who is one of the
most important queer scholars: Douglas Crimp, because he's really great and he wrote a great book
called 'Morning and Melancholia' which is mainly about aids, but seen through queer.
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