Karin Harrasser In this article, I discuss a possible deep history of the practice of “dressing up as Indian,” a deep history of adorning oneself with borrowed plumes. Who does it do, when and where and for what purpose? I argue that this history of appropriation should start in the early modern period, long before the modern, romanticized nineteenth-century …
Performing Entangled Exoticisms in Dance and Theater around 1900 Julia Ostwald With their appearance at the Parisian World Exhibition in 1900 and their Europe tour from 1901 to 1902, the Japanese theater troupe of Kawakami and Sadayakko Otojirō hit European art and theater circles like a “comet” (Pantzer 2005, xxi), resonating in performances, publications, art, and literature in the …
When I was asked to invite an artist for a talk at the 2022 Facing Drag conference, it was absolutely clear that nora chipaumire would be that artist, someone who has located her work in issues of social justice consistently while at the same time pushing boundaries of form. Her work challenges status quo through the use of fertile …
Facing Drag emerged from a series of international conferences and lectures on gender at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw) starting during the challenging period of the COVID-19 pandemic, between 2022 and 2024. In contrast to recent political regressions and calls for defunding the humanities—gender and decolonial studies in particular—the publication of this volume coincides with …
“We ask you … to ensure that there is no visual similarity to the iconic logo of the brand … belonging to our client.” The original design for the cover by Oliver Brentzel, reflecting on practices of quoting without quotation marks, was scrapped just before printing and on what we schlepp along involuntarily—another casualty of today’s crackdown on queering, …
Evelyn Annuß, Professor of Gender Studies, heads the International Research Center Gender and Performativity (IGCP) at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Her work is dedicated to the flight lines of aesthetics, theories of performativity, and the critique of politics. As a cultural studies scholar of theatre and literature, she focuses, among other things, on political spectacles—their …
The Open Access University Press of the mdw mdwPress is the open access academic publisher of the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. With this press, the mdw aims to increase the visibility of its research in all its diversity. Free from commercial motives, mdwPress makes research results freely accessible and reusable for the interested public. …
