Inside Killjoy's Kastle : Dykey Ghosts, Feminist Monsters, and Other Lesbian Hauntings

Mitchell, Allyson (EDT); Mckinney, Cait (EDT)

ISBN 10: 0774861576 / ISBN 13: 9780774861571

Verlag: UBC Press, 2019

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Inside Killjoy's Kastle : Dykey Ghosts, Feminist Monsters, and Other Lesbian Hauntings
• Verlag: UBC Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0774861576
• ISBN-13: 9780774861571
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: New

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Hundreds of years of ridicule, persecution, erasure, misunderstanding, and institutionalization could put anyone in a bad mood. Killjoy invites you into her kastle for a queer exorcism and celebration of the past.

Lesbian feminist histories can have a haunting effect on the present. This book explores the making and experience of Killjoy's Kastle, an immersive walk-through installation and performance artwork (by Allyson Mitchell and Deirdre Logue) that materializes the frightfully acrimonious past for today. Inspired by Evangelical Christian hell houses, the exhibition has been staged in four cities so far – Toronto, London, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia  – inviting visitors to interact with humorous and frightening manifestations of the spirits that haunt feminist and queer history.

Whereas traditional hell houses set out to scare and convert, Killjoy's Kastle cheekily aims to provoke and pervert, giving expression to old and new anxieties and creating a space for critique, affect, and discussion. Inside Killjoy's Kastle fills this space by exploring the kastle's theoretical and political legacies in chapters by queer and feminist scholars and in vignettes by artists who participated in the project. The many colourful photos in the book also bring Killjoy's Kastle to life, offering an important visual context. By taking the kastle as a starting point, the contributors consider the role of lesbian feminist histories and direct-action aesthetics in contemporary communities, particularly the ways in which political artwork can produce new ways of knowing about the past.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Allyson Mitchell is a maximalist artist working in sculpture, performance, installation, and film. She is based in Toronto, where she is an associate professor in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies at York University and runs FAG Feminist Art Gallery with her partner, Deirdre Logue.

Cait McKinney is an assistant professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. Their first book, on lesbian-feminist information histories, is forthcoming in 2020.