Sly Religiosity and Queer Politics

Sly Religiosity and Queer Politics

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When:
March 21, 2017 @ 7:00 pm
2017-03-21T19:00:00-04:00
2017-03-21T19:15:00-04:00
Where:
Green Room, Main Library 4th Floor
Main Library
366 W Circle Dr, Okemos, MI 48864
USA
Cost:
Free
Art, Art History, and Design MSU Inclusion
Sly Religiosity and Queer Politics @ Green Room, Main Library 4th Floor | East Lansing | Michigan | United States

Karin Zitzewitz: – #lovewins: Sly Religiosity and Queer Politics in the Secular Museum
Book – The Art of Secularism: The Cultural Politics of Modernist Art in Contemporary India (Hurst/Oxford University Press, 2014).
As 1990s Indian politics became dominated by Hindu chauvinism, gay painter Bhupen Khakhar harnessed Hindu image practices to explore gay love. Simultaneously, Cuban-American, gay artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres turned to Catholic ritual to confront AIDS and the homophobic politics that helped it spread. How do these works of art, steeped in religiosity, use the secular space of the art museum to prove the truth of love?