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The Bad Taste: Cultural Politics of Trash and Kitsch

During the workshop, from a theoretical and practice-oriented perspective, we will investigate the ideological, political and historical parameters of “taste” in popular culture, explore what is meant by designations such as canonical “high culture” and popular “low culture”, and who is empowered to make these distinctions. At the intersection of a cabaret and a tv show, through creating performances with highly charged imagery juggling, among others, the aesthetics of comics, advertisements, popular music, and video games, we explore how bad, vulgar, kitsch or valueless aesthetic can be used as an oppositional aesthetic challenging hegemonic class, gender, and racial hierarchies, normative behaviors and ideologies.

Texts, extracts:
  • Pierre Bourdieu: “A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste”, 1979
  • Kevin Glynn: “Tabloid Culture: Trash Taste, Popular Power, and the Transformation of American Television”, 2000
  • Ruth Holliday & Tracey Potts: “Kitsch!: Cultural Politics and Taste”, 2012
  • Gillian Pye: “The anthology Trash Culture”, 2010
  • Andrew Ross: “No Respect: Intellectuals and Popular Culture”, 2016
  • Susan Sontag: “Notes On Camp”, 1964
​Photos: © Boglárka Zellei,  2015.
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  • Home
  • GRAY BOX
    • Manifesto
    • People
    • CV
    • Contact
  • Performance
    • Black Box >
      • Elrabotam a szived
      • Right for Fight
      • sorry not sorry: Second book
      • Crisis before Crisis
      • MÖBIUS
      • Who is the boss?
      • UTOPIA/DYSTOPIA
      • CLASH
      • Secret Garden
      • sorry not sorry: First book
      • Picnic in Eden
      • No hook-ups only serious
    • White Cube >
      • Dreams are my reality
      • Air is in the Love
      • Heavenly Foreplay: Song of Senses II.
      • Dirty Dancing Girl Power II.
      • Confessions: Coming OUT!
      • Heavenly Foreplay: Song of Senses
      • Passion. Fan behaviour. Love.
      • Over 18
      • Love, Tenderness
      • Landscape, Action!
      • Dirty Dancing Girl Power
      • Replay! Remix! Remake!
      • The First Kiss
      • Feminine-Masculine
      • Try On/Out!
      • Memory-Starters
      • The Fitting Project
    • Outdoor >
      • ​The Master and Margarita
      • Israel Us!
      • Do you remember when...?
    • Catwalk
  • Education
    • Movement, Dance, and Creative Writing for Theater Professionals
    • Dance Performance Studies
    • Études de Danse et Pratiques Performatives
  • Platform