Image 1: Installation view: Lila-Zoé Krauß – [After her Destruction], Kunsthaus Hamburg 2024, Photo: Antje Sauer
Shadow Democracies, Anti-fascism and the Queer Art of Hospitality
Lecture by Luce deLire & artist talk with Lila-Zoé Krauß
Friday, 12.7.2024, 7 pm
Participation is free
In her lecture, the philosopher and performer Luce deLire will present her current scientific positions on shadow democracies and queer hospitality. Afterwards, she will talk to artist Lila-Zoé Krauß about social norms, progressive queer politics and their role in her current exhibition [After her Destruction].
According to deLire, a double movement could be observed in recent years: legislation is retreating behind courts and individual responsibility. At the same time, it is creating sub-legislative but effective standards. According to deLire, this results in a de-politicisation of politics in the light of a shadow democracy. In her lecture, deLire illustrates the logic of this shadow democracy and its authoritarian tendency, using the example of trans politics. In doing so, she addresses the so-called “self-determination law” (Sebstbestimmungsgesetz)—a German law which is intended to simplify the changing of names and gender entries in official documents—linking it to the inarticulability of a radical politics of the many in Germany.
From a postcolonial perspective, deLire proposes queer hospitality as a paradigm of creative democracy that can help us prevent our shadow democracy from collapsing into fascism. According to deLire, hospitality can help us to overcome the shadow democracy in favour of a society characterised by euphoria and enthusiasm. According to deLire, shaping this creative democracy is an artistic, performative, choreographic, architectural task. The same applies to anti-fascist practice.
Luce deLire is a ship with eight sails and she lies down by the quay. As a philosopher, she publishes on the metaphysics of infinity, art and political theory. In her performances, she embodies figures of the collective imaginary. For more, see getaphilosopher.com. Luce is part of the political action group SBSG—see queerokratia.de.
Lila-Zoé Krauß studied Fine Arts at the HFBK Hamburg and at CalArts Los Angeles as well as Sound Studies at the UdK Berlin. Her audiovisual works have been shown at the Popkultur Festival, Berlin (2023); Documenta Fifteen, Kassel (2022); Kvaka Art Space, Belgrade (2022); Import Export, Munich (2022); Montez-Press-Radio, New York City (2019); HKW, Berlin (2019) and Kampnagel Sommerfestival, Hamburg (2018). She lives and works in Vienna.