Shame Manifesto -- 2024
They strut down the street, their colorful ties waving in the wind around their shoulders drawing shapes in the air. The colors of the ties are complementing their outfits, the shorts they are wearing over their jeans. Business gay, down for gay business only. The shoes click clack on the pavement.
Shame on you shout the men I had never seen before.
They shout this every day, always on the street, but also in the houses in the schools in the gardens.
Shame on you too! They wave back excitingly. They make shame whatever it means to them.
In my last publication Capital G God lower q queer, which accompanies this project, I wrote about Queer performativity and how we can use shame in a creative way. Now I would like to focus more on the notion of shame itself. What is shame and how do we develop it? Why do we keep secrets and why do we nééd to keep them? How can we use shame as a compass and how can I to give shape to shame and secretsexplore and incorporate shame and secrets in relation to my own performative work?
I will dig through classical and contemporary literature about shame and look at artist who took shame as their starting point.
I hope to apply their knowledge to my own work and find an answer this way to how I can incorporate shame in my graduation work, and in which means exactly.