Author: So Mayer'A Nazi Word for a Nazi Thing' works against erasure; it is a manifesto – a catalogue for an exhibition that could never take place. Drawing on work from dissident sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld to South African artist Zanele Muholi, as well as a century of queer cinema from Sergei Eisenstein to Pedro Almodóvar, So Mayer creates an archive of resistance. An essay on art, bodies and fascism.In 1937 the Nazis staged an exhibition of seized modernist artworks. Named Entartete ‘Kunst’ – Degenerate ‘Art’ – it sought to define degeneracy, display it and destroy it. This act of violent appropriation is one episode in a long and ongoing history of the erasure of queer and non-normative cultures. In an era where identity politics is being weaponised against the very people it has sought to make visible, how can we reclaim complexity? How might we continue the joyous riot?ISBN 9781913512026. Peninsula Press. pb. 158 pages. 16.4 x 11.2 cm.available
