title: Julius Pristauz: Staging Indeterminacy
category: catalogue
published in: Unfreezing the Scene, Kunsthalle Wien Prize 2022
publisher: Kunsthalle Wien
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The polydisciplinary practice of Julius Pristauz spans performance, film, installation, curating, and writing, frequently developed in collaboration with other makers. Drawing freely on personal experience, critical theory, and queer or pop culture, this outspoken work both theorizes and practices the staging of identities. In that, it shares common ground with the work of “freak theoreticians” such as Renate Lorenz or Wayne Koestenbaum, who also operate in the pleasantly opaque zone between art, literature, and activism...
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