Queer Art: A Freak Theory

Based on extensive readings of art works, Queer Art traces the question of how strategies of de-normalization initiated by visual arts can be continued through writing. In the book’s three chapters, art theoretical debates are combined with queer theory, post-colonial theory, and (dis-)ability studies—thus proposing the three terms “radical drag,” “transtemporal drag,” and “abstract drag.” The works discussed include those by Zoe Leonard, Shinique Smith, Jack Smith, Wu Ingrid Tsang, Ron Vawter, Bob Flanagan, Henrik Olesen, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Sharon Hayes, and Pauline Boudry.