{"id":1750,"date":"2022-08-24T12:37:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T10:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/criticaldiversity.udk-berlin.de\/?p=1750"},"modified":"2022-08-24T12:59:17","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T10:59:17","slug":"cross-cutting-the-livid-residue-lecture-by-claire-finch-on-genders-residue-sex-and-textual-dissidence-in-the-rot-of-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/criticaldiversity.udk-berlin.de\/en\/cross-cutting-the-livid-residue-lecture-by-claire-finch-on-genders-residue-sex-and-textual-dissidence-in-the-rot-of-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross-cutting the livid residue \u2013 Lecture by Claire Finch on gender\u2019s residue, sex, and textual dissidence in the rot of language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"is-style-intro-paragraph\">Gender is performance. But how does it perform? On the occasion of the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/medienhaus-lectures.com\" target=\"_blank\">Medienhaus Lectures 2021<\/a> at Berlin University of the Arts, Paris based writer and researcher Claire Finch re-visited the queer-feminist notion of gender\u2019s performativity. We publish the lecture together with an introduction by Annika Haas, who co-organised the two-day conference together with Henrike Uthe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Claire Finch: Livid Residue: Gender\u2019s residue, sex, and textual dissidence in the rot of language \u2013 Medienhaus Lectures 2021\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/706459327?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-more-info-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/clairefinch.com\" target=\"_blank\">Claire Finch<\/a> is a writer and researcher whose work samples queer and feminist theories as a way to intervene in narrative. Their recent projects include \u201eI Lie on the Floor\u201c (After 8 Books, 2021), \u201eLettres aux jeunes po\u00e9tesses\u201c (L\u2019Arche 2021), \u201eKathy Acker 1971-1975\u201c (Editions Ismael, 2019) and their translation into French of Lisa Robertson\u2019s \u201eDebbie: An Epic\u201c (with sabrina soyer, Debbie: une \u00e9pop\u00e9e, Joca Seria, 2021).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-intro-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Introduction_by_Annika_Haas\"><\/span>Introduction by Annika Haas<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-intro-paragraph\">Regarding the notion of performing gender, Claire Finch intervened into a common misunderstanding of the concept coined by Judith Butler right in the beginning of their lecture stating that \u201cit\u2019s not about acting, but more about interrupting the idea of what it means to be an actor, to be a self, to have a body [\u2026]\u201d. In turn, even what has been called the \u201cassigned sex\u201d presented itself as \u201cthe residue, the result of citing re-citing gender gender gender as the body gets all solid in repetition\u201d. Tackling this issue, Finch\u2019s contribution to the conference motto \u201cPerformance? Performance. Performance!\u201d was an exercise in stretching, bending, loosening and cross-cutting the identities that form and solidify in bodies and \u201cthe residue of sex and language\u201d respectively. This exercise is physical, emotional, sensational and text-based, all at once. Finch proposes to utilize strategies like plagiarism, body functions like vomiting, technologies like sex toys, and last but not least language for what they broadly understand as \u201ctextual intervention\u201d into the livid residue of our bodies and in order to cross-cut their identities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-intro-paragraph\">In this way, seemingly separate spheres and practices in themselves \u2013 e. g. writing and using sex toys \u2013 creatively begin to inform each other. Considering for example, as Finch remarked, that \u201c[y]ou can attach a sextoy to any part of the body and transform that part of the body into a sexual surface\u201d not only decenters sex and the gendered body. It also inspires textual strategies: \u201cWhat happens when we think of the sextoy as a textual graft, if we perform the same decentering and reorganizing operations on form, as we do on the body?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-intro-paragraph\">Making these connections by translating and transposing concepts and practices from one medium and form into another and thus allowing for mutual interventions \u2013 e. g. of the body or the sex toy into the text and vice versa \u2013 is what drives their practice, as Finch underlined in the discussion that followed the lecture and that left the audience with an inspiring task: To develop further dissident strategies with their bodies and tools of their choice in order to practically do these things that we say we want to do in theory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-more-info-paragraph\">Annika Haas is a media theorist and works as a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/visuellekultur.udk-berlin.de\/personen\/annika-haas\" target=\"_blank\">research associate<\/a> at the Institute for History and Theory of Design of Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). She completed her PhD on H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Cixous\u2019s philosophy and embodied writing practice. Annika\u2019s practice at the intersection of art and theory includes <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.textezurkunst.de\/en\/articles\/annika-haas-not-a-spectacle-navigating-the-broken-arena\/?highlight=Annika%20Haas\" target=\"_blank\">art criticism<\/a> and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/annikahaa-s.com\" target=\"_blank\">experimental publishing<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"qtranxs-available-languages-message qtranxs-available-languages-message-en\">Sorry, this entry is only available in <a href=\"https:\/\/criticaldiversity.udk-berlin.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\" class=\"qtranxs-available-language-link qtranxs-available-language-link-de\" title=\"Deutsch\">Deutsch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Gender is performance. But how does it perform? Paris based writer and researcher Claire Finch re-visited the queer-feminist notion of gender\u2019s performativity. We publish the lecture together with an introduction by Annika Haas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-no-thumb.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,10,9,4,1,11,34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/criticaldiversity.udk-berlin.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/criticaldiversity.udk-berlin.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/criticaldiversity.udk-berlin.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/criticaldiversity.udk-berlin.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/criticaldiversity.udk-berlin.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1750"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/criticaldiversity.udk-berlin.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1757,"href":"https:\/\/criticaldiversity.udk-berlin.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions\/1757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/criticaldiversity.udk-berlin.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/criticaldiversity.udk-berlin.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/criticaldiversity.udk-berlin.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/criticaldiversity.udk-berlin.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}