Category art

Marina Gržinić/Aina Šmid: Icons of Glamour, Echoes of Death (1982)

The video is about the phantasmatic world of a woman stereotype portrayed as a model (Marina Grzinic)/apparently a transvestite (that switches through language between sexes, being she and then suddenly he), and her friend – a hermaphrodite (Aina Smid). They remember their childhood, the years in school and the first experience with masturbation.This work is possible to be seen as one of the first if not the first in the field of video art in the world that opens and dramatise the institution of masculinity through drag practices in socialism.

Derek Jarman: Blue (1990)

Blue is at once Jarman’s most moving film and his most experimental and idiosyncratic. Visually, the film comprises of nothing more than a blue matt screen, over which Nigel Terry, John Quentin, Swinton and Jarman himself read passages from his…

Virginia Villaplana: Retroalimentación (1998)

En Retroalimentación Virginia Villaplana reúne las prácticas fotográficas de intervención cultural queer  que desde 1990 ha desarrollado el colectivo activista  LSD y Fefa Vila, una de sus fundadoras, en España. Con una factura de videoclip experimental se muestran las obras…