DECEMBER 21- 23.12.2018
As political changes take
shape – or seemingly take shape - here and elsewhere, many claim that women -
often regarded a “neglected” segment of society, a “group” in need of
“empowerment,” and so on - should be given positions of governance. These
claims are framed as feminist, situating feminism as a project of gaining
access to institutional power. Can government (a site of power) (ever) be the
site of feminist intervention – as a process of diffusion and multiplicity or
does feminism from here on out need to be, inherently, a rejection of
institutional power?
Queering understandings of
feminist power – as incessantly antagonistic – can offer narratives of feminist
empowerment that destabilize and undo understandings of power as institutional.
What emerges from this queering are spaces of feminist and/or queer antagonism
to institutions that constitute another kind of politics – a politics that
cannot exist in any conjunction or in collaboration with governance.
The 2018 Queering Yerevan
Happening, to take place December 21-23, 2018, may include interventions,
discussions, and talks surrounding these sets of que(e)ries.
