Bodies of truth: The terrible beauty of queer performance. Issue 2 (1st October 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Sampatakakis, George
• Is Part Of: Journal of Greek media and culture. Volume 4:Issue 2(2018:Oct.)
• Page Start: 255
• Page End: 267
• Publication Date: 2018-10-01
• Subjects: Mass media and culture -- Greece -- Periodicals; Popular culture -- Greece -- Periodicals; Mass media -- Greece -- Periodicals; Greece -- Civilization -- Periodicals; 302.230949505
• DOI: 10.1386/jgmc.4.2.255_1
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2052-3971

Abstract

This piece examines five recent performances from Greece in an attempt to map both their interventions and contributions to the development of Greek queer aesthetics. It provides a chart of this relatively unknown performative landscape and explains how the queering process works in constructing queer 'freaks', cultural mourning and a new iconography of Greekness.