16. 4. 2024 Seminar of Accidental Wisdom: Ladislav Jackson
seminar of accidental wisdom: Ladislav Jackson
16. 4. 2025
Queer Images Between Performance and Documentation
Recent theory of art shows that artistic images can have a performative nature, can be showing what is hidden or not spoken about. If we connect this knowledge with queer theory, a world of imagery that embodies past queer experiences rises in front of us. Historical images can be sometimes the only source documenting queer lives without oppressing queer minorities and giving queer people them their own agency. Based on author’s recent edited book Images of Queer Desire (Obrazy jiné touhy), the lecture will show on a couple of examples and stories from recent past how we can work with and interpret queer images.
Ladislav Jackson is an art historian, teaches at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology, and Faculty of Arts, University of South Bohemia. He specializes in visual arts and design history od the 19th and the 20th Century. He recently published books such as The Philosopher of Structures: Architect and Engineer Jaroslav J. Polívka (2024), Jan Kotěra: Czech Modern Architecture in Context (2024), Images of Queer Desire: Queer Art and Visuality in Czech Lands (2024). For the annual conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, he prepared with Facundo Revuelta a panel De-colonizing the Orther: Queer Spaces beyond the Western Canon (2025). He is an executive director of the Society of Queer Memory.
Image: Jaroslav Kastelán: Nudist Ascent Premiere, 1985, Archive of the Society for Queer Memory, collection O-020