TY - JOUR
TI - Quipping the Museum: Queering the Crip, Cripping the Queer at Berlin’s Schwules Museum
AU - Ojrzyńska, Katarzyna
TI - Quipping the Museum: Queering the Crip, Cripping the Queer at Berlin’s Schwules Museum
AB - The article analyzes Queering the Crip, Cripping the Queer (Schwules Museum, Berlin, 2022/2023) – the first international exhibition which centred on the intersections of queer and crip history, culture, and activism. Drawing on the theoretical framework of cultural disability studies, Ojrzyńska examines its key thematic areas, such as inclusion, aesthetic beauty, history, and resistance. Informed by the minoritarian ethics of representation, Queering the Crip… showed how a museum exhibition can serve as a site of inclusivity and a resource for inclusive practices, nurturing solidarity and a sense of connection across various categories of social exclusion, invisibility, and marginalization, with major focus on “quip” identities, to use the neologism put forward by Quiplash. It expanded the Schwules Museum’s reach beyond those members of the queer community who fit in the bodily and mental “norm” as well as stimulating reflection on the place and role of disability in culture and society. In fact, the exhibition presented disability and queerness as identities and alternative ways of being in the world that can intersect and have a strong subversive political, ethical, and aesthetic potential.
VL - 2023
IS - Issue 2 (55) Bio-aktywne rumowisko historii cz. II
PY - 2023
SN - 1895-975X
C1 - 2084-3860
SP - 233
EP - 244
DO - 10.4467/20843860PK.23.016.18382
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/przeglad-kulturoznawczy/article/quipowanie-muzeum-o-wystawie-queering-the-crip-cripping-the-queer-w-berlinskim-schwules-museum
KW - Queering the Crip
KW - Cripping the Queer
KW - disability
KW - queer
KW - crip
KW - museum
KW - Schwules Museum
KW - inclusivity
KW - aesthetics
KW - history
KW - resistance
KW - identity