What does this research mean for the field?

Abstraction in contemporary experimental film and arts serves as a multifaceted survival and resistance strategy for marginalized individuals to navigate a hostile world and disrupt discourses that attempt to order bodily materialities. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.SYNTHESIS. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

What question did this study set out to answer?

The essays examine abstraction as a significant artistic tactic reflecting issues of race, gender, and sexuality.

May 16, 2026

Introduction: The Matter of Abstraction: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Contemporary Experimental Film and the Arts

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The essays examine abstraction as a significant artistic tactic reflecting issues of race, gender, and sexuality.
Dossier of essays analyzing various artistic strategies encompassing abstraction.
Exploration of how abstraction functions in contemporary film and arts.
Abstraction is shown to operate as refusal and displacement.
Multiplicities of approaches illustrate the discourse surrounding the materiality of bodies.

Resumen

Abstract In the essays that comprise this dossier, abstraction emerges as an artistic strategy for living in a world that is not conducive to one's being in it. As a strategy, abstraction can operate as refusal, as displacement, as reverberation, as decomposition, as drawing away, as drag, as transmutation, as a prying open, and in many other ways. In this sense, abstraction is not one thing but rather encompasses a multiplicity of approaches that pull on the web of discourse that seeks to order the unruly materialities of bodies.

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