With the installation Terminal Piece, the artist, activist, theorist and writer Kate Millett responded in 1972 to a femicide, because, as she later said, she could not write about it. Two years earlier, Kate Millett had made sexuality perceptible as a political practice in her book „Sexual Politics“ and shown how, by means of literary works, violence against women* is naturalised and legitimised.
With the help of further works by Melanie Plunkett, Elisabeth Subrin and Paul Thek from the 60s to the present, and our own differing (reading) experiences, gaps, desires and life contexts, we reflect on important demands and changes in queer_feminist, feminist and queer theories and practices.
Content note: During this exhibition tour, sexualised and heteronormative violence, abuse of power, and psychological and psychosomatic illnesses are addressed in visual works and in conversation.