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Barbershop: The Art of Queer Failure and the Hope of Utopian Futures

October 2, 2024 @ 5:00pm-6:00pm

Free

Failure has been part of queerness since the terms’ reclamation in the 1980s. Queerness as identity and method fails to perform in ways that mainstream culture encourages. Queers fail to perform normatively when it comes to romantic partners, sexualities, gender identities, family structures, aesthetics, world making, and much more. Queer and queerness fail on purpose to be normative and instead throw norms, essentialism, and givens into question. Queers and queerness fail on purpose as a means of creating other possibilities.

Dr. Ace Lehner is an interdisciplinary visual culture scholar and artist specializing in critical engagement with identity and representation. Lehner’s areas of expertise include trans and queer visual culture and theory, critical approaches to race and representation, modern and contemporary art history and visual culture, photography history and theory, and performance. Lehner’s writing on art and visual culture has appeared in numerous peer-reviewed and internationally recognized journals and anthologies. Lehner’s artwork has been exhibited at multiple reputable international museums and galleries. Lehner is currently Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Art and Art History at the University of Vermont.

This is a hybrid event brought to the Library by Vermont Humanities.

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Date:
October 2, 2024
Time:
5:00pm-6:00pm
Cost:
Free
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Website:
https://mclvt.org/stec_event/barbershop-the-art-of-queer-failure/

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