T*

Publication/Creation:

Milan - Italy : Mousse Publishing, [2019]

Format:

Book

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Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

T* / essays by Paolo B. Preciado [and four others] ; photographs by Giordano Bonora

Related/Included Titles:

Photographs. Selections.

Related Names

Additional Author/Creators:

Bonora, Giordano, 1947- Photographs
Università di Parma. Centro studi e archivio della comunicazione, host institution

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Bonora, Giordano,1947---Exhibitions
Transgender people--Italy--Bologna--Portraits--Exhibitions
Portrait photography--Italy--Bologna--Exhibitions
Transgender people
Gender minorities
LGBTQ+ people

Description/Summary

Bibliography:

Includes bibliographical references.

Summary:

This book is inspired by the pictures that Giordano Bonora, a young streetcar operator and aspiring photographer, took of Bologna?s small transgender community in 1980 (although it would be more correct to speak, in this case, of proto-Transgenderism). Reproduced here for the first time, these raw and gilded images reflect?during a period in Italy characterized by subversive movements and political revolts that were not just rooted in questions of identity?attempts made by T* people at a construction of the self outside the binary logic of the genotypically XY male/genotypically XX female. By people like Valérie?a woman?s face, a hairless chest with no breasts, a fleur-de-lis tattooed on the shoulder, and two pairs of pantyhose?for whom ?gender? is not determined biologically but something to be embraced depending on the circumstances. A box containing a jigsaw puzzle with a picture that is constantly changing. Bundled with the photographs, a handful of texts set out to explain how the question of gender involves two cultural levels of sexual difference, the normative and the dissident, and how the decision-making power over organs outside heteropatriarchal systems of sexuality and processes of disidentification are the stakes in the new ?somato-political? struggle against hegemonic regimes of oppression conducted by enchanting, allied, opaque, and vulnerable bodies. Winner of the FLAT Prize?Fondazione Arte CRT, 2018.00Exhibition: CSAC, Parma, Italy (20.04-30.09.2018).

Language:

English
Italian

Language Note:

Text in English and Italian.

Physical Type/Description:

214 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

General Note:

Catalog of an exhibition held at the CSAC, Parma, Italy, April 20-September 30, 2018.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9937259504102486

ISBN:

9788867493968
8867493965

OCLC Number:

1135876453

Barcode:

010003088862