Tim Stuettgen
Tim Stüttgen (* 1977 in Solingen ; † May 12, 2013 in Berlin-Kreuzberg ) was a German author , performance artist , curator and journalist .
Life
Stüttgen studied film studies at Middlesex University in London and the Free University of Berlin and later did research on gender studies and queer theory as a postgraduate researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht.
In 2006 Tim Stüttgen organized the symposium “Post Porn Politics” in Berlin for the Jan van Eyck Academie. At the symposium, theorists, artists and scene activists such as Bruce LaBruce , Beatriz Preciado , Michaela Wünsch , Terre Thaemlitz , Katja Diefenbach , Stephan Geene , Lee Edelman and Annie Sprinkle debated the extent to which pornography could be a medium of emancipation .
Under his alter ego Timi Mei Monigatti , Stüttgen appeared as a drag queen . He wrote the play "Phone Sex Hotel", which he also directed. Together with Margarita Tsomou , he curated the performance festival “Gender Pop Athens” in 2008 in cooperation with the local Goethe Institute.
As a journalist he published several articles in the taz and wrote for Jungle World , Spex and De: Bug .
He joined the collective of the bookstore and publisher b books .
In 2012, Stüttgen completed a master's degree in gender studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Most recently he worked on the publication of his master's thesis on "Quare times, quare places: The audio-visual politics of blaxploitation cinema and Sun Ras Afrofuturism". The book should cover topics such as post / slavery, queer-of-color politics, and artistic techniques such as assemblage .
On May 12, 2013 Tim Stüttgen committed suicide in Berlin suicide .
After his death, his master's thesis was published under the title IN A QU * A * RE TIME AND PLACE by b books , in Berlin (in cooperation with autonomedia, New York).
Works
- as publisher: Post, porn, politics: queer_feminist perspective on the politics of porn performance and sex_work as culture production. b_books, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-933557-76-6 .
- with Can Oral : The abstract aesthetics of digital flaneurism. Fantôme-Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-940999-29-0 .
- IN A QU * A * RE TIME AND PLACE. b books , Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-942214-16-2 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Obituary for Tim Stüttgen: Always demanding, always restless. ( Memento from June 26, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) at: taz.de , accessed on June 24, 2013.
- ↑ a b c Tim Stüttgen at thing-hamburg.de, accessed on June 24, 2013.
- ↑ Biographical data ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 29 kB) from the artist agency Studioxx, accessed on July 3, 2013.
- ↑ a b c Obituary: Tim Stüttgen (1977–2013) ( memento from June 26, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) at: spex.de , accessed on June 24, 2013.
- ↑ Postpornpolitics on b-books.de with contributors
- ↑ Sonja Eismann: Not a German export hit. ( Memento from July 3, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) taz.de from April 9, 2008, accessed on July 3, 2013.
- ↑ Prof. Dr. Eveline Kilian for the ZtG: Obituary by Tim Stüttgen ( memento of the original from June 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Obituary: Tim Stüttgen at b-books.de, accessed on June 24, 2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stuettgen, Tim |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Timi Mei Monigatti (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German author, performance artist, curator and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1977 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Solingen , Germany |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 12, 2013 |
| Place of death | Berlin-Kreuzberg , Germany |