The installation in the vitrine and the short lecture performance will turning around the history of non-white queer/non-binary bodies in Switzerland and their relation to the space, where we gather for this event. This work questions how misusing the word "love" in our society today, became a form of discrimination. And how, maybe, collectively we need to redefine the notion of love/togetherness and community! Politics of language center this work. How do we translate a colored body into the language of a predominantly white space? Who is allowed to ask questions? How far am I obliged to answer to those questions?
Following work is based on the survey “Politics of language and the boundaries of transparency”, that Kamran Behrouz launched in 2018.
Kamran Behrouz (1984) is a Visual Artist, born and raised in Tehran, currently working and living in Zurich. Their PhD, entitled ‘Cosmopolitics of the Body’, uses posthuman critical theory as a navigational tool to examine the boundaries of bodies and humanity’s embedded and embodied cultures. They works with multiple medias, and combines the act of painting with animation, installations, costumes, and performance. Their works deal with ‘politics of location’ in association with Cosmopolitics. Kamran saturates the Queer Identity throughout their art, in order to draw a cartography of belonging and displacement. Politics of image center their visual practices, transfigured in their theoretical works, as cultural translations and textual trafficking. Their latest publication is a translation of Sara Ahmed’s latest essay in Persian language, a language that does not register gender.
