Boo Boo by İz Öztat and Ra at the screening program SELF-ORIENTATIONS (23/12/2023)
ArteEast is presenting SELF-ORIENTATIONS, a film program with artists from Turkey and Lebanon whose moving image works incorporate queer & feminist self-makings using, manipulating, and correcting the orientalist gaze, voluptuous fantasies, and perennial expectations from the oriental other. Curated by Alper Turan and conceived in conjunction with the Wallach Art Gallery exhibition Partisans of the Nude: An Arab Art Genre in an Era of Contest, 1920-1960, SELF-ORIENTATIONS present artists’ video, documentary, essay film, performance documentation, and desktop film. İz Öztat and Ra’s Boo Boo offers an improvisational glance into queer desire, orientalist aesthetics, and the power of representation in forming selves.
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Image: İz Öztat & Ra, Boo Boo, Video, 2022, 13'