Notes on bimbos and bodybuilders: a heterotopic* enquiry into "Camp"

Uittreksel

"Inspired by Susan Sontag's Notes on "Camp", Stan Van Rompaey attempts to penetrate the very essence of all things "camp", the manifestations of camp past and present, and the critical appeal she reads in them. The climax of her research is the Post-Sontagian "Camp" Manifesto. The calls in the manifesto are as sincere as they are contrived, as personal as they are political, soaked in the so-called post-irony that the artist embraces as an inevitable condition of her generation. In her manifesto, she calls for a revolutionising of everyday life, the overturning of conventional categories and language systems associated with heteronormativity, the celebration of excess, the elimination of shame and guilt, for a rebellious hyper-awareness too, prompted by the realisation that no form of aesthetics is innocent, nor is its critique. Winner of the Dirk Lauwaert Prijs 2021 (Scriptieprijs LUCA School of Arts 2021)."