A journey through over two decades of intersectional and queering practices in film, performance, sculpture, community work, and textiles. BURN & GLOOM! GLOW & MOON! Thousand Years of Troubled Genders was the most comprehensive exhibition to date of Vienna-based artist and filmmaker Katrina Daschner. It was curated by Övül Ö. Durmuşoğlu and encompassed works from the 1990s to the present, ranging from sculptures, textiles, music, performance, community-based work, and, most prominently, film, which sits at the heart of Katrina Daschner's practice. This publication transfers the immersive environment of senses, textures, and feelings created in the exhibition into book form. Just like the exhibition, it confronts, touches, embraces, and dreams of transforming "femme"-ness, transforming bodies, and transforming genders.
With stylized performances and video works, Daschner plays with the boundaries of human and non-human, and what is socially defined as the norm, exposing the artificiality of the gendered binary--the dualism of men* and womxn--and the prejudices it generates, freeing the body. In doing so, the stage becomes the setting for a precarious desire for visibility and, at the same time, an endless yearning for rebirth. The bodies that perform and the potential audience that follows them mutate and embody different emotional cycles again and again. These artistic acts generate their own community in the making; everyone participating contribute to the stories in the making. They function like threads attaching her stories, stages, and characters together. In Daschner's textile-based works, threads are minimal yet highly visible, akin to the pinch needed to wake up from a dream. These works--as well as her collages--merge with her confronting yet inviting image politics: she cuts and pastes stories of love and pleasure, violence and resilience, death and rebirth.
The written contributions reflect on Katrina Daschner as part of a hardworking generation of queer artists and makers who have been responding to the major conceptual shifts and gender upheavals happening in contemporary art since the 1990s, especially in New York and London. They highlight Katrina Daschner's longstanding line of intersectional queer interest that continues to undermine (neo-)liberal, heteropatriarchal conceptions of sexuality, gender, subjectivity, and relationships.
Copublished by Kunsthalle Wien
ContributorsRike Frank, Amelia Groom, Tim Stüttgen
這本書是關於維也納藝術家和電影製片人卡特琳娜·達斯納二十多年來在電影、表演、雕塑、社區工作和紡織品等領域的交叉和酷兒實踐的旅程。
《燃燒與黑暗！發光與月亮！千年的性別困擾》是迄今為止最全面的卡特琳娜·達斯納展覽，由Övül Ö. Durmuşoğlu策展，展示了從1990年代到現在的作品，包括雕塑、紡織品、音樂、表演、社區工作，以及最重要的電影，這是卡特琳娜·達斯納實踐的核心。這本出版物將展覽中創造的感官、質感和情感的沉浸式環境轉化為書籍形式。就像展覽一樣，它面對、觸摸、擁抱並夢想著轉變「女性」、轉變身體和轉變性別。
達斯納以風格化的表演和錄像作品玩弄人類和非人類之間的界限，以及社會上被定義為規範的事物，揭示了性別二元制的人為性，以及它所產生的偏見，從而解放身體。在這樣做的過程中，舞台成為一種對能見度的不穩定的渴望，同時也是對重生無盡的渴望。表演的身體和可能的觀眾不斷變異並體現不同的情感循環。這些藝術行為在創作中形成了自己的社區；每個參與其中的人都為故事的創作做出了貢獻。它們像線一樣連接著她的故事、舞台和角色。在達斯納的紡織品作品中，線條極簡但非常顯眼，就像從夢中醒來所需的一撮。這些作品以及她的拼貼作品與她具有挑戰性但又具有吸引力的形象政治相融合：她剪切和粘貼了關於愛與快樂、暴力與韌性、死亡與重生的故事。
書中的文字貢獻反思了卡特琳娜·達斯納作為一代辛勤工作的酷兒藝術家和製作者的一部分，他們自1990年代以來一直在回應當代藝術中發生的重大概念轉變和性別動盪，尤其是在紐約和倫敦。他們強調卡特琳娜·達斯納長期以來對交叉酷兒興趣的追求，這種追求繼續顛覆（新）自由主義、異性父權主義對性別、主體性和關係的概念。
由維也納藝術館共同出版。
貢獻者：
Rike Frank、Amelia Groom、Tim Stüttgen
Katrina Daschner has lived and worked as an artist and filmmaker in Vienna since the mid-1990s, where she founded numerous performance salons. In her works and films, she deals with (gender-specific) power structures and the representation of queer sexuality as well as the transfer of stage language to the exhibition and film context. From 2005 to 2010, she taught at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. In 2010, she was awarded the Otto Mauer Prize, and the Diagonale Prize for Innovative Cinema in 2017. In 2018, she was awarded the Outstanding Artist Award for Experimental Film by the Federal Chancellery of Austria.
