From there to rehearsing sex: A space of freedom among theory and the dead meandering to assist with resistance

• Authors: Christiana Lambrinidis

Title variants

PL

Stąd do prób seksualnych: przestrzeń wolności pomiędzy teorią a zmarłymi będącymi, by wspomagać opór

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

On a rectangular table, four heads recollect their personal experiences of existence. In the absence of physical body no gender or sex differations exist. However, in depicting images of their existence the four heads recall relationships and emotions characterized by all the stereotypes of engendered relations. Submisal, obedience, resistance, are evident. The limits and power play of family and sex bondages are revealed. Through a constant state of sleep and/or death the heads speak with their eyes closed the truths of their selves. Pursuance of pleasure (achieved through sex) and desire of fulfillment motivates their every action and thought and allows to endure the pain that emerges from the lack of completeness. Language is the medium that gives meaning to an existential life, sets the space of one's freedom, constructs or deconstructs reason. "Rehearsing Sex" can be seen/heard as a paradigm of queer theory, where sexual identities and relations are being revised and reconstructed.

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski. Ośrodek Studiów Amerykańskich
• Journal: InterAlia: Pismo poświęcone studiom queer
• Year: 2007
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 17

Dates

published

2007

Contributors

author

Christiana Lambrinidis

• independent scholar

References

• Deleuze, Gilles and Felix Guattari. Capitalisme et Schizophrenie, L'Anti-Oedipe, Paris, Les Editions de Minuit, 1973 (translation mine). Lambrinidis, Christiana (ed.). Rehearsing Sex Program, Athens, Creative Writing Center, 2006. McParland, Brenda and Frances Morris. Louise Bourgeois, London, August Projects, 2003.