Paul B. Preciado

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Paul B. Preciado (* 11. September 1970 in Burgos as Beatriz Preciado ) is a Spanish philosopher and queer theorists .

Life

Preciado studied philosophy at the Comillas Pontifical University in Madrid, the New School for Social Research in New York and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He received his PhD in philosophy and architectural theory from Princeton University .

In 2001 he organized Drag King workshops at the Université Paris , where the performative construction of masculinity, its social and physical advantages and the possibilities of political practice were explored. Participants should learn to depict masculinity and experience a different approach to public space and public speaking. In 2004 Preciado gave a lecture at a symposium at the University of Paris VIII . In 2005 he completed a five-month study visit to Princeton on a French scholarship , and in 2006 he was responsible for a course on gender, body and performance at the dance department in the summer semester.

Preciado is transgender . From 2010 he began a slow transition and took the male first name Paul.

2012–15 Preciado headed the Independent Studies Program at the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) and taught at the University of Paris VIII.

Based on the approaches of Jacques Derrida , Judith Butler and Michel Foucault , Preciado developed criticisms of dominant forms of sexuality in the context of power, normative body presentations and sexual practices.

Contrasexual manifesto

In his Contrasexual Manifesto , published in 2000, Preciado tries to theoretically develop new forms of sexuality as an alternative to heterosexuality by decentering the sexual charge of the penis and vagina and constituting and proclaiming a sexuality in which anus and dildo - each body organ being a dildo / can become - be at the center of sexual activity.

Preciado's Manifesto creates a social system that lets go of gender norms and role models and tries to completely reorganize society. Contrasexuality is a critical examination of the “heterocentric social contract”, which regards heterosexuality as the norm and does not accept any deviation from it. He speaks of “normative performances that are inscribed in the body as biological truths”. Similar to Judith Butler, he accuses the subject of being determined by others. What women and men are is determined by culture and automatically projected onto the subject. Preciado wants to break with the heterosexual social contract and replace it with a contrasexual one; this is accompanied by a “systematic deconstruction of both the naturalization of sexual practices and the social order”. Just like Butler, Preciado also uses the term “performance”. According to Preciado, the heterosexual system works through cultural codes. By these codes, he understands the cycle of performance, imitating, producing and reproducing, through which gender ideas are created as naturally presented. Preciado defines contrasexuality as follows:

“Contrasexuality is a theory of the body that stands outside of the opposition masculine / feminine, male / female, heterosexual / homosexual. He defines sexuality as technology and considers the different elements of the sex / gender system (...) as well as their practices and sexual identities. "

Preciado opposes the fact that sexuality determines the individual in a society, and hopes for the liberation of the individual with his alternative, contrasexual society. This contrasexual society is based on a contrasexual contract made between two or more individuals. This contract regulates the sexual intercourse of both persons down to the smallest detail. The contract is supplemented by written principles in the sense of paragraphs with which the members of the company declare their agreement. The signatories of the contract give up any sexual identity in the sense that they renounce the "natural" position of man / woman and thus give up all privileges and obligations that go with it. Furthermore, the interpersonal relationship is precisely defined. The contract is not equivalent to a marriage and is not to be understood as a partnership. Reproduction is not included in the contract and may only take place if both partners agree. The contract relates only to the sexual act. To illustrate the abolition of gender ideas, the anus becomes the new “universal contrasexual center”. The anus does not discriminate or create categories, because both the female and the male sex have it. The anus thus becomes a metaphor for sexlessness in terms of gender.

Projects

Paul B. Preciado at documenta 2017

In 2017 he curated the controversial performance Auschwitz on the Beach at documenta 14 . In 2019 he curated the video project 3x3x6 by Taiwanese artist Shu Lea Cheang for the 58th Venice Biennale .

Works

Web links

Commons : Paul B. Preciado  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Paul B. Preciado. Curator of Taiwan at the 58th Venice Biennale 2019. Accessed May 5, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Contrasexual Therapy. In: jungle world of December 8, 2014. Accessed May 4, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Ángela Molina: Reportaje | Llamadme Paul . In: El País . January 29, 2016, ISSN  1134-6582 ( elpais.com [accessed June 19, 2019]).
  4. ↑ a b c Beatriz Preciado: “What is contrasexuality” (pp. 9–32), and “Contrasexual reading exercise” (Deleuze), in: diess: Contrasexual Manifest. Berlin: b_books, 2003, 10.
  5. ^ Preciado (2003), 11.
  6. ^ Preciado (2003), 25.
  7. ↑ The ultimate provocation. In: "Dschungel", supplement to jungle world of August 24, 2017. Accessed on May 4, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Shu Lea Cheang. Taiwan at the 58th Venice Biennale 2019. Accessed February 21, 2020 .
  9. ↑ 3x3x6. Retrieved May 5, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Let's go to me! in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung from January 29, 2012, p. 25
personal data
SURNAME Preciado, Paul B.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Preciado, Beatriz (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish philosopher and queer theorist
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Burgos