QV: Queer Visions - Queer Visibility
QV: Queer Visions - Queer Visibility
Idil
Istanbul, Turkey
Supervisor: Ane; Mentor: Eszter Kadar
10/2019-09/2020
Hello, my name is Idil, 23 years old sociology student from Istanbul. I will be working on my project
"Queer Visions - Queer Visibility (QV)" in Sonntags-Club.
My project focuses on the interactions of gender and queer visibility particularly in arts and music scene in Berlin.
My questions are:
- Who is perceived with which sexual identity and expression in the scenes?
- How can underrepresented groups in the queer community become more visible?
- How are relationships build and maintained in queer communities?
- How do queer artists influence their queer audiences and vice versa?
- What mechanisms exist between the different movements and modes of art in a colorful city like Berlin?
Often, the way gender identity is portrayed plays a crucial role in their visibility. In this respect, art goes
beyond the realm of personal interest. Attitudes, action routines, outfits, aesthetic habits, the repertoire of
artistic action, musical taste, visual representations of all kinds and endless artistic movements are building
blocks of the formation of many gender-specific identities that substantially take their shape around art and have
their expressions in art.
Berlin is a multicultural city, where diverse sexual orientations and gender identities come together with diverse
cultures, ethnicities, nationalities and customs. Berlin is also one of the European cultural capitals, where all
sorts of cultural activities can be found thanks to a creative and free atmosphere on an international and
multicultural level. An overview of the diversity of the Berlin (queer) art scene will be the starting point for
the investigation of the visibility issues in arts and music scene in Berlin.
Sonntags-Club is located in the heart of the city and has been a stage of different sexual orientations and
identities for more than 45 years by now. SC has been involved in the building of a queer community and will
provide background and experience that is necessary for my project. So I will be able to observe the significance
of the creation of such exclusive spaces beyond a dominating culture for hitherto barely visible gender communities.
