ABSTRACT

This article synthesizes original comparative perspectives of visibility, (counter)actions, and legacy regarding queer monuments: public artworks dedicated to, and questioning or queering normativities around, the lives of LGBT+ people. It pursues a dialogic, interdisciplinary, and multisite and intercultural argument, drawing from approaches and preliminary insights from a scholarly project (Queer Memorials) and artist’s project (Strange Inheritance) with topical case studies covering North America and Europe. After abductive ethnography, the analysis oscillates between theory/literature and scholarly and creative practice. It attends to the critical roles queer monuments have played in engaging with how sexual “others” have fallen in and out of place through social struggles, radical politics, and collective memory. The peer exchange provides a cross-case taxonomy of queer monuments’ roles, navigating between sorrowful, celebratory, provocative, and informative types and values. It advocates both arts-based enquiry and practice as grounded pathways for narrating queer monuments’ activist potential to memorialize, and visibilize, sexual and gender minorities and their overlapping rights in/to space.

摘要

本文综合了关于酷儿纪念碑的可见性、（反）行动和遗产的原始比较观点：致力于LGBT+ 人群生活的公共艺术品，并质疑或质疑规范性。它追求对话、跨学科、多地点和跨文化的论点，借鉴学术项目（酷儿纪念馆）和艺术家项目（奇怪的继承）的方法和初步见解) 涵盖北美和欧洲的专题案例研究。在溯源民族志之后，分析在理论/文学与学术和创造性实践之间摇摆不定。它关注了酷儿纪念碑在与性“他人”如何通过社会斗争、激进政治和集体记忆发生冲突时所起的关键作用。同行交流提供了酷儿纪念碑角色的跨案例分类，在悲伤、庆祝、挑衅和信息类型和价值之间导航。它提倡以艺术为基础的探究和实践作为叙述酷儿纪念碑活动家潜力的基础途径，以纪念和展示性和性别少数群体及其在空间中的重叠权利。