Bossing Images (The power of images, queer art and politics)

Bossing Images is about the bossy relationships between images and their audiences. Drawing on queer and postcolonial theory it proposes bossiness as a framework through which to foreground the desiring, but not always hierarchical, but never fully stabilised, power relations that shape the production, reception and circulation of art.

This book was published on the occasion of the series of events Bossing Images. Macht der Bilder, queer Kunst und Politik/ The Power of Images, Queer Art, and Politics (Neue Gesellschaft fr Bildende Kunst, Berlin January–June, 2012) organized by Antke Engel and Jess Dorrance in cooperation with Renate Lorenz. With texts by Bini Adamczak, Nana Adusei-Poku, Kerstin Brandes, Jess Dorrance, Antke Engel, Coco Fusco, Katalin Halasz, Katrin Kppert, Renate Lorenz, Sandra Ortmann, Tim Stttgen a.k.a. timi mei monigatti, Fsun Tretken, Simon Vincent and Eva von Redecker.