Selfie Aesthetics: Seeing Trans Feminist Futures in Self-Representational Art Morse Nicole Erin
Selfie Aesthetics: Seeing Trans Feminist Futures in Self-Representational Art Morse Nicole Erin In Selfie Aesthetics Nicole Erin Morse examines how trans feminine artists use selfies and…
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Selfie Aesthetics: Seeing Trans Feminist Futures in Self-Representational Art Morse Nicole Erin
In Selfie Aesthetics Nicole Erin Morse examines how trans feminine artists use selfies and self-representational art to explore transition, selfhood, and relationality. Through close readings of selfies and other digital artworks by trans feminist artists, Morse details a set of formal strategies they call selfie aesthetics: doubling, improvisation, seriality, and nonlinear temporality. Morse contends that rather than being understood as shallow emblems of a narcissistic age, selfies can produce politically meaningful encounters between creators and viewers.
Morse shows how the interaction between selfie Morse traces these strategies in the work of Zackary Drucker, Vivek Shraya, Tourmaline, Alok Vaid-Menon, Zinnia Jones, and Natalie Wynn, showing how they present improvisational identities and new modes of performative resistance by conveying the materialities of trans life.