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traces and fractures through and with the concept: to dyke_trans | dis_visualizing re_locating de_silencing |

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to dyke_trans

to act | acting | to interact | interacting | acting critically politically reflectively | shaping locations | shaping critical positionings | creating_visualizing_ constructing critical positionings | to act_inter_act to | inter_acting_inter | in_between_beyond_with_through_by different presumptions conceptions ideas imaginations | re-enacting empowering feelings conceptualizations |

to dyke_trans

is an open position | a fluid process | a momentary breathing | is dynamic | continuously under construction_reconstruction_rebuilding_refurnishing_relo­cating | is being in a moment | being in continuous changing processes movements | is shaping dyke_stories trans_stories community-stories personal stories reconstructing times and places | adapting time and places resignifying notions of time and place| is daring to be to be present to be there to be here to be being

is dynamically processual opening breathing empowering unfinishing re_starting again and again | is searching going moving touching motioning feeling opening laughing connecting | shaping presences being present

is now

is here

is living

 

to dyke_trans

is fluid | dynamic | empowering | powerful | loud | silent | collectively perceived | individually enacted | is interaction | fractures | short breaks | breathing | continuously arriving | arriving in motion | motion | emotion | feeling | relaxing | being in the world | being world | being is

to dyke_trans

is dis_arriving | feeling being open being space feeling space | open space | opening space | is questioning hesitating rapturing | re_locating perceptions speaking listening seeing writing | is living visions | visionalizing life and living | is wording struggling for words visions perceptions | searching for new visualizations | visualizing social actions | visualizing visions is

to dyke_trans

is being aware of voids fractures hesitations questions dissolutions | struggling for visions | fighting for words | yearning_fighting for presence | being | being here and now

 

to dyke_trans life

to dyke_trans living

living with paradoxes in moments | ambivalences | beyond dichotomies | living on the line on the limit on the border on the edge in the space openly | living community | living_feeling at home for moments in words in images in meeting others | finding dyke_trans-affirming_constituting actions_feelings_atmos­pheres_locations_positionings for moments | moments of now | living moments | letting go of securities definitions exclusions categorizations | letting go of exclusions and hierarchies | insecuring closing-ups of definitions and norms | re_organizing reflecting challenging categorizations social localizations | re_organizing one’s positioning in reflecting and working with interdependent power relations | being in acting being in moments

to dyke_trans social contexts reflecting interdependent power relations working for mutual engagements against sexism against racism against ableism | feeling_seeing_realizing differences shaped and re_constructed by inter­dependent power relations | locating selves in moments in situations in contexts with others | anew every time | shaping feelings of community in connecting dyke_transselves in inter_actions_inter feelings presences emotions actions | de_limiting dyke_transings in acknowledging interdependent power relations and fights and choices people take_make

to dyke_trans moving to put into movement putting into action irritating challenging finding dyke_trans-feeling-selves in challenges irritations move­ments paradoxes ambivalences

to dyke_trans in questioning | in searching for questions in answering with and in questions

to dyke_trans ways | words | images | locations | positionings

 

[embodied bodily unlimited presence breathing visions unfinished processual]

 

to dyke_trans  |  dis_visualizing  |

the gaps in between | the gaps as places_locations | moving gaps moving perceptions | widening gaps to new spaces | dis: unclear visualizations_ looks_gazes_sights_perceptions | disharmonic disobedient dis­placed distant |

reading dyke_transself into images | visualizing dyke_trans | becoming aware of dis_visualizations | see what is in_visible | reflect upon what seeing is, who ‘can’ see and who cannot – and who can realize who can see and who cannot | perceiving the dis_perceived | inventing visions by visualizing anew | shaping visions shaping visualizations in seeing_looking_gazing breaking gazes disrupting gaze-conventions | seeing as action for dyke_transing | dyke_ transing visions | visualizing utopias in dis_visualizing re_locations | questioning visions as ableistic

 

to dyke_trans |  re_locating  |

locating dyke_transself-feelings in visualizing locations | to dyke_trans locations | locating dyke_transed visions | locating in utopian acting | visualizing dyke_transed re_locating perceptions_actions_feelings | locating within gaps and fractures of dis_intelligibility | visualizing locations shaping locations | is dyke_transing perceptions_words_views_images_visions_listenings | making positionings fluid processual dynamic | dyke_transing positionings in making persons_communities moved | moving concepts of locations in making moving locations | making utopian actions_movements moving heres and nows shaping_wanting_wishing here and now-actions_moments_presence | shaping _re_constructing_building_daring utopias fluidly_processual_ever­changing_ dynamically utopian movements | dynamic_processual_fragile_momen­tary re_locating moments_actions_beings

 

to dyke_trans |  de_silencing  |

voids of silences | moments of here and now | awareness of being | being aware | continuously searching for wordings_listenings | reflecting and wording and visualizing against the unintelligibility of interdependent power relations | listenings_wordings which will never be fitting never be finished never arriving | arriving as never ending process never ending | de-finishing wordings_ locations | dynamizing wordings | questioning answers| searching de_ silencings and giving room for silences where no words_sounds can reach | shaping space by listening| accepting silences in de_silencing noises which try to outsound perceptions | listening to silences | silencing de_listenings

 

to raise the voice | listening | shouting out silences | speaking up

 

| volume |

high and low

regulating listening_speaking

cracking_breaking_trembling voices | being loud crying shouting out | flying_ swimming_running voices | silences hearing silence listening to silences | flying listening | being aware of silencings_cryings speaking up listening to dropping_leaking_blocked_excluded_ignored tears_voices

 

listening loudly

listening slowly_precisely_specific

speaking up | shouting out

 

to dyke_trans: exhibition

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the exhibition was part of a larger project – a lab with the title: politicizing trans / trans_forming politics (please find the events blog and documentation with videos and podcasts here).

the lab was taking place in may 2012 in berlin at different locations. the exhibition has been conceptualized and organized by ja’n and lann, with support from the lab-team as well as other dyke_transed people. the lab team consisted of julz, rüzgår, steffi, ja’n and lann. it was financed by intergender, an international gender studies graduate school, situated in linköping, sweden. the exhibition was in addition to that financed by ‘private’ money as well.

the idea for the lab’s topic has been initiated on an intergender board meeting and is a mutual preliminary idea by wibke and lann. the concrete realisation of the whole lab with different formats has been discussed in the aforementioned preparation team. applying different forms of knowledge production with different perspectives has been one important part of the lab. the exhibition’s concept has been elaborated in this context. the anti-genderist focus by and through the concept to dyke_trans has been strongly influenced by the conceptualization of the political positioning dyke_trans, as it has been formulated by the group ‘ag einleitung’ in the book ‘feminismus schreiben lernen’ from 2011 (ak feministische sprachkritik). in this context, dyke_trans has been a newly established term to find an empowering self-appellation for persons discriminated by multiple forms of sexism/genderism. by way of this form, an earlier unnameable positioning has been made explicit as an empowering form of political intervention into genderism. the exhibition to dyke_trans has further elaborated on this concept by changing it from a noun form, implying some kind of essentialized identity, to a verb form. the verb form implies a concept of political positioning which is strongly based on situational and context-sensitive ideas of actions: political positionings are thus understood as forms of action which are not legible over time and space but have to be decided upon again and again for every single moment. this idea has even been processed further in the concept trans_x_ing by xart splitta, making an activist criticism on binary genderings even more central. the exhibition has tried to transform this complex conceptualization of dyke_transing into various forms of visual and performative actions and gazing as a powerful form to re_shape visualizations within this context. the ideas to focus on artistic_political forms of dyke_transing and to focus on visual politics and gazing forms of activities has been strongly influenced by ideas and concepts of tina m. campt’s book image matter. archive, photography, and the african diaspora in europe 2012 as well as nicole r. fleetwood’s book troubling vision. performance, visuality, and blackness 2011. ella shohats edited book talking visions. multicultural feminism in a transnational age 1998 is a very inspiring source for the combination of different forms of knowledge production – artistic, political and academic in an exhibition and publication on anti-racist feminism.

the exhibition’s framing in this text here, takes these different ideas into some sort of momentary historicizing narration. there are much more framings we could make, like exhibitions we have visited or pictures that inspired us. whatever framing we are making, it is formulated from an anti-genderist white ableist staticised perspective.

‘to dyke_trans’, as we have formulated it for and with and in the exhibition, is only one possible form of realisation which is also dependent on the interdependent localization it is formulated from. it is strongly obliged to a critical activist reflection of genderism which is thereby also critically reflecting and acting against racism_ableism_classism_migratism from our positioning which are privileged with regard to racism_ableism_classism_migratism.

the exhibition was only a starting point for asking ourselves many new questions, for reflecting our perceptions and aesthetic norms, and we am happy to proceed in many different ways by and with projects in xart splitta to continue on this way. already during the process of making this exhibition, we tried to find more pictures/images which not only depict single persons or pair constellations but dyke_transing groups and actions like interventions, taking public space. with our recent concept of trans_x_ing spaces_perspectives_perceptions, we are still very much engaged into these questions. 

from the booklet:

 

politics of location

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sorry – no english version of this post yet – we are working on it!

reading list politics of location/ critical positioning:

adrienne rich (1984 [2003]): notes toward a politics of location. in: lewis, mills: feminist postcolonial theory. a reader.
chandra talpade mohanty (1987): feminist encounters: locating the politics of experience. copyright 1
michele wallace (1989): the politics of location: cinema/theory/literature/ethnicity/sexuality/me. framework, no. 36
lata mani (1989): multiple mediations: feminist scholarship in the age of multinational reception, inscriptions 5
inderpal grewal (1994): autobiographic subjects and diasporic locations: meatless days and borderlands. in grewal and kaplan, eds. scattered hegemonies
caren kaplan (1994): the politics of location as transnational feminist practice. in grewal and kaplan, (eds.) scattered hegemonies.
may ayim (2002) afrodeutsch I. in may ayim. grenzenlos und unverschämt. frankfurt/main 180-181.
encarnación gutiérrez rodriguez (2003) repräsentation, subalternität und postkoloniale kritik. in: spricht die subaltern deutsch? migration und postkoloniale kritik. hito steyerl und encarnación gutiérrez rodriguez (hrsg.), münster, 17-37.
grada kilomba (ferreira) (2003) die kolonisierung des selbst – der platz des Schwarzen. in: spricht die subaltern deutsch? migration und postkoloniale kritik. hito steyerl und encarnación gutiérrez rodriguez (hrsg.), münster, 146-165.
alyosxa tudor (2011) feminismus w_orten lernen. praktiken kritischer ver_ortung in feministischen wissensproduktionen. in ak feministische sprachpraxis, (hrsg.) feminismus schreiben lernen. frankfurt/main, 57-99.

 

projects

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xart splitta is planning, organizing, performing, doing, supporting and collecting projects and ideas for projects which are trans_x_ing realities_spaces_actions_life in many different ways.

one of our first project has been the exhibition ‘to dyke_trans’.

at the moment, we are organizing the projects turning pages and a performance and party event on deconstructing binary genderings.

the homepage you are visiting just now with its many different dimensions, genres, questions and inspirations is another project which we are working on at the moment – and the different sites on this homepage – from topical prisms to intervening ideas into binary gender norms, from photo exhibitions to video screenings, collecting inspiring quotations and connecting inspiring trans_xing people and communities, are further ongoing smaller and larger projects we are working_living_inspiring on and with. it is our project to make trans_x_ing living better_warmer_happier, more present_ more open_questioning_searching_communicating_communities. it is our project to have fun_inspiration_contact_questions_visions_presences.

we are interested in your ideas for projects and glad to talk to you about possible forms of collaboration, support, networkings, inspiring new ideas! contact us! contact@www.xartsplitta.net

loo interventions

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here are some ideas and concrete examples how to intervene into binary genderings in public spaces like bathrooms and changing rooms. binary genderings in these spaces are very often as well de-conceptualizing interdependencies of ableism and genderism, when toilets are differentiated for women and men and for disableised people. are disableised people not gendered or does it not play any role for them? and does it mean that women and men are ableised? some of the ideas and interventions we want to present here, will take these dimensions activistically_artistically into account. bathroom changes is a very concrete topic and place to intervene into interdependent norms of binary genderings.

abb. 11: transformation. documentation of blisters after my weekly efforts to find the door "in between" of public toilets.
transformation. mik van essen, m.vanessen@yahoo.de, first published in “begegnungen auf der transfläche”, 2012, edition assemblage
the text says: documentation of blisters after my weekly efforts to find the door “in between” of public toilets.

 

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