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Tessel Veneboer

Tessel Veneboer writes about sexuality in literature. Her PhD thesis Reading the Pornographic Imagination – Kathy Acker’s Formal Experimentation and the Feminist Critique of Pornography (at Ghent University) presents a new reading of the feminist pornography debates through the question literary form. She is currently working on a new project, on the concept of sexual inversion in early twentieth-century literature.

The erotics of asymmetry

Chloe Chignell & Amina Szecsödy’s Shadow Text brings Monique Wittig’s lesbian-feminist epic Les Guérillères to the stage.

Can a dance piece read a text rather than reproduce it in stage form, as in the classic sense of adaptation? The performance Shadow Text by Chloe Chignell and Amina Szecsödy seeks to bring feminist philosopher and writer Monique Wittig’s novel Les Guérillères to the stage. Wittig’s novel, from 1969, — now considered part of the feminist and lesbian canon Feminist critic Mary McCarthy for example, called the book ’the only work of beauty to come out of the Women’s Lib.’1 The novel is a cyclical narrative, in which collective life is continuously destroyed and rebuilt. Wittig’s book is structured as a triptych and in this sense resembles epic more than the conventional novel. Wittig’s novel may be perfect for the stage, as it is concerned with citation, cyclic movement, non-linear time, and the materiality of the body.