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My thesis is an attempt to create a bridge between my artistic practice and theoretical research behind its themes and topics. I highlight imagination as a tool to recreate one’s world in order to survive a hostile, success-oriented and normative daily reality. The text is divided into three main sections. Each focusing consecutively on childhood, queerness and examples of imagination in fairy tales and artistic practices; all understood through the lens of failure. I look at childhood as a queer and highly creative universal experience of living on the edge of established social norms. I draw on queer writtings such as Queer Art of Failure by Jack Halberstram and Cruising Utopia: Then and There of Queer Futirity by José Esteban Muñoz in search of utopia and longing for a better future. In the final part of my thesis I refer to Ursula Le Guin’s essays on fantasy and science fiction, fairy tales and artistic practices. I explore various examples of failed heroes and the role of imagination in order to rewrite the present for a queerer future of more possibilities.

type	research exposition
keywords	imagination, queerness, Fairytales, failure, childhood
date	04/07/2023
last modified	04/07/2023
status	in review
share status	public
affiliation	Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague
copyright	Anna Pierga
license	CC BY-NC-ND
language	English
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2226525/2226524

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Imagining the world through the lens of loser and hoping for a better future (last edited: 2023)

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