Skip to content
1981
  1. Home
  2. Books
  3. Queer Contemporary Art of Southwest Asia North Africa
  4. Chapter

Sa'dia Rehman's Queer Cartographies: Convivial Opacities

image of Sa'dia Rehman's Queer Cartographies: Convivial Opacities

The work of queer Muslim visual artist Sa'dia Rehman (she/they) animates a queer call for no borders. These queer cartographic logics are clear in projects like Mihrab (2019) and The Land of Promise (2020). Through queer aesthetic strategies such as conviviality and opacity, Rehman gathers traces as a brown visual commons that cultivates unforeseen affiliations. Their works of art are portals into queer theory committed to dismantling borders, to prompting social re-ordering, and to ungovernability. As a result, she frustrates regulatory logics undergirding visuality, announcing the possibility of another kind of visuality altogether.

Keywords: borders ; countervisuality ; diaspora ; disorientation ; Jasbir Puar ; José Muñoz ; Mihrab ; muslim ; no-state-solution ; ornament ; queer aesthetics ; queer cartography ; surveillance ; The Land of Promise ; visual commons

Hardback ISBN: 9781835950265
Loading full text...

Full text loading...

Sa'dia Rehman's Queer Cartographies: Convivial Opacities
Intellect , 213 (2024); https://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2102/10.1386/9781835950265_16
/content/books/9781835950265.c14
/content/books/9781835950265.c14
Loading

Data & Media loading...

References

  1. Ahmed, Sara. Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006.
     [Google Scholar]
  2. Amin, Kadji, Amber Jamilla Musser, and Roy Pérez. “Queer Form: Aesthetics, Race, and the Violences of the Social.” In “Queer Form,” edited by Kadji Amin, Amber Jamilla Musser, and Roy Pérez. Special Issue, ASAP/Journal 2 no. 2 (2017): 227–39.
     [Google Scholar]
  3. Cheng, Anne Anlin. Ornamentalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
     [Google Scholar]
  4. Columbus Museum of Art. Danny Marcus interview with artist Sa'dia Rehman, promotional exhibition pamphlet. Columbus, OH: Columbus Museum of Art, 2020.
     [Google Scholar]
  5. Eng, David, and Jasbir Puar. “Introduction: Left of Queer.” In “Left of Queer,” edited by David Eng and Jasbir Puar. Special Issue, Social Text 38, no. 4 (2020): 1–23.
     [Google Scholar]
  6. Hernandez, Jillian. Aesthetics of Excess: The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020.
     [Google Scholar]
  7. Goldberg, Ariel. The Estrangement Principle. New York: Nightboat Books, 2012.
     [Google Scholar]
  8. Kapadia, Ronak K. Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019.
     [Google Scholar]
  9. King, Homay. “Institutionalizing Methods: Art History and Performance and Visual Studies.” In Saturation: Race, Art, and the Circulation of Value, edited by C. Riley Snorton and Hentyle Yapp, 241–60. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2020.
     [Google Scholar]
  10. Lim, Eng-Beng, and Tavia Nyong'o. “Afterword: Queer Reconstellations.” In “Left of Queer,” edited by David Eng and Jasbir Puar, Special Issue, Social Text 38, no. 4 (2020): 149–56.
     [Google Scholar]
  11. Loos, Adolf. “Ornament and Crime.” In the Architecture of Adolf Loos: An Arts Council Exhibition. London: Arts Council, 1985.
     [Google Scholar]
  12. Mirzoeff, Nicholas. The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011.
     [Google Scholar]
  13. Mirzoeff, Nicholas. “The Visual Commons: Counter-Power in Photography from Slavery to Occupy Wall Street.” In Image Operations: Visual Media and Political Conflict, edited by Jens Eder and Charlotte Klonk, 206–18. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016.
     [Google Scholar]
  14. Mitchell, W.T.J. “Imperial Landscape.” In Landscape and Power, edited by W.T.J. Mitchell, 5–34. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.231
     [Google Scholar]
  15. Mitchell, W.T.J. “Introduction.” In Landscape and Power, edited by W.T.J. Mitchell, 1–4. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.
     [Google Scholar]
  16. Morgensen, Scott. Spaces Between Us: Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota, 2011.
     [Google Scholar]
  17. Muñoz, José Esteban. Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009.
     [Google Scholar]
  18. Muñoz, José Esteban. “Ephemera as Evidence: Introductory Notes to Queer Acts.” Women and Performance 8, no. 2 (1996): 5–16.
     [Google Scholar]
  19. Muñoz, José Esteban. Sense of Brown. Edited by Joshua Chambers-Letson and Tavia Nyong'o. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009.
     [Google Scholar]
  20. Puar, Jasbir. Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007.
     [Google Scholar]
  21. Puar, Jasbir. The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017.
     [Google Scholar]
  22. Ramaswamy, Sumathi. “Introduction: The Work of Vision in the Age of European Empire.” In Empires of Vision: A Reader, edited by Martin Jay and Sumathi Ramaswamy, 1–23. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014.
     [Google Scholar]
  23. Rehman, Sa'dia. “About.” Artist's website. Accessed April 15, 2022. https://www.sadiarehman.com/about.html.
     [Google Scholar]
  24. Rehman, Sa'dia. “Art.” Artist's website. Accessed April 15, 2022. https://www.sadiarehman.com.
     [Google Scholar]
  25. Walia, Harsha. Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism. New York: Haymarket Books, 2021.
     [Google Scholar]

References

  1. Ahmed, Sara. Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006.
     [Google Scholar]
  2. Amin, Kadji, Amber Jamilla Musser, and Roy Pérez. “Queer Form: Aesthetics, Race, and the Violences of the Social.” In “Queer Form,” edited by Kadji Amin, Amber Jamilla Musser, and Roy Pérez. Special Issue, ASAP/Journal 2 no. 2 (2017): 227–39.
     [Google Scholar]
  3. Cheng, Anne Anlin. Ornamentalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
     [Google Scholar]
  4. Columbus Museum of Art. Danny Marcus interview with artist Sa'dia Rehman, promotional exhibition pamphlet. Columbus, OH: Columbus Museum of Art, 2020.
     [Google Scholar]
  5. Eng, David, and Jasbir Puar. “Introduction: Left of Queer.” In “Left of Queer,” edited by David Eng and Jasbir Puar. Special Issue, Social Text 38, no. 4 (2020): 1–23.
     [Google Scholar]
  6. Hernandez, Jillian. Aesthetics of Excess: The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020.
     [Google Scholar]
  7. Goldberg, Ariel. The Estrangement Principle. New York: Nightboat Books, 2012.
     [Google Scholar]
  8. Kapadia, Ronak K. Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019.
     [Google Scholar]
  9. King, Homay. “Institutionalizing Methods: Art History and Performance and Visual Studies.” In Saturation: Race, Art, and the Circulation of Value, edited by C. Riley Snorton and Hentyle Yapp, 241–60. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2020.
     [Google Scholar]
  10. Lim, Eng-Beng, and Tavia Nyong'o. “Afterword: Queer Reconstellations.” In “Left of Queer,” edited by David Eng and Jasbir Puar, Special Issue, Social Text 38, no. 4 (2020): 149–56.
     [Google Scholar]
  11. Loos, Adolf. “Ornament and Crime.” In the Architecture of Adolf Loos: An Arts Council Exhibition. London: Arts Council, 1985.
     [Google Scholar]
  12. Mirzoeff, Nicholas. The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011.
     [Google Scholar]
  13. Mirzoeff, Nicholas. “The Visual Commons: Counter-Power in Photography from Slavery to Occupy Wall Street.” In Image Operations: Visual Media and Political Conflict, edited by Jens Eder and Charlotte Klonk, 206–18. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016.
     [Google Scholar]
  14. Mitchell, W.T.J. “Imperial Landscape.” In Landscape and Power, edited by W.T.J. Mitchell, 5–34. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.231
     [Google Scholar]
  15. Mitchell, W.T.J. “Introduction.” In Landscape and Power, edited by W.T.J. Mitchell, 1–4. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.
     [Google Scholar]
  16. Morgensen, Scott. Spaces Between Us: Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota, 2011.
     [Google Scholar]
  17. Muñoz, José Esteban. Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009.
     [Google Scholar]
  18. Muñoz, José Esteban. “Ephemera as Evidence: Introductory Notes to Queer Acts.” Women and Performance 8, no. 2 (1996): 5–16.
     [Google Scholar]
  19. Muñoz, José Esteban. Sense of Brown. Edited by Joshua Chambers-Letson and Tavia Nyong'o. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009.
     [Google Scholar]
  20. Puar, Jasbir. Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007.
     [Google Scholar]
  21. Puar, Jasbir. The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017.
     [Google Scholar]
  22. Ramaswamy, Sumathi. “Introduction: The Work of Vision in the Age of European Empire.” In Empires of Vision: A Reader, edited by Martin Jay and Sumathi Ramaswamy, 1–23. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014.
     [Google Scholar]
  23. Rehman, Sa'dia. “About.” Artist's website. Accessed April 15, 2022. https://www.sadiarehman.com/about.html.
     [Google Scholar]
  24. Rehman, Sa'dia. “Art.” Artist's website. Accessed April 15, 2022. https://www.sadiarehman.com.
     [Google Scholar]
  25. Walia, Harsha. Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism. New York: Haymarket Books, 2021.
     [Google Scholar]

  • From This Site

    /content/books/9781835950265.c14
    dcterms_title,dcterms_subject,pub_keyword
    -contentType:Contributor -contentType:Concept -contentType:Institution
    10
    5
/content/books/9781835950265.c14
dcterms_title,dcterms_subject,pub_keyword
-contentType:Contributor -contentType:Concept -contentType:Institution
10
5
Chapter
content/books/9781835950265
Book
false
en
Loading
This is a required field
Please enter a valid email address
Approval was a success
Invalid data
An error occurred
Approval was partially successful, following selected items could not be processed due to error
Please enter a valid_number test