Katalin Halász
PhD in Visual Sociology
Disobedient Bodies:
Disobedience in Five Acts
video installation investigating bodily resistance to racialised and gendered norms within cis-heteropatriarchal global colonial whiteness
as lived institutional enactments and categorical identifications
with Shona Hunter
post-production and sound design Andreas Landeck
26 - 28 June 2025
Absolute Disorder exhibition
Suwon, South Korea
Disobedient Bodies: Disobedience in Five Acts (10:25)
Disobedient Bodies: Disobedience in Five Acts at the
Absolute Disorder exhibition, Suwon, South Korea, 2025
Absolute Disorder exhibition, Suwon, South Korea, 2025
© IVSA
Credits
Texts:
Oral history interview with Howard Kester, August 25, 1974, Civil Rights Digital Library, https://crdl.usg.edu/record/noa_sohpcr_b-0007-2 [accessed Nov 2023]
Oral history interview with Nancy Kester Neale, August 6, 1983, Civil Rights Digital Library,
https://crdl.usg.edu/people/neale_nancy_alice_kester_1934 [accessed Nov 2023]
Baldwin, James. 1953. 'The Stranger in the Village', Harper's Magazine, Oct 1953 Issue,
https://harpers.org/archive/1953/10/stranger-in-the-village/ [accessed Nov 2023]
Sound/Voiceover:
Rodgers, Lloyd. On questions of responsibility Act II
https://www.chosic.com/download-audio/24845/ [accessed Nov 2023]
Bedő, Szaffi. 2022.
Moving image:
Queues at dawn to see the queen lying in state, Associated Press, Youtube,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrNGWNn7zmQ [accessed Nov 2023]
Spider Crawls On Queen Elizabeth's Coffin At Funeral, Access Hollywood, Youtube,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdWXXGHp4xk [accessed Nov 2023]
The fantastic anatomy of spiders - all you have to know, Explanation-Avenue, Youtube,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpuqwfKR66U [accessed Nov 2023]
World record Most Spiders On A Body For 30 Seconds, Pretty Things, Youtube,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8YpPf6Ds4k [accessed Nov 2023]
Friendship Baptist Church Lunch 1989, Coffee Break Show, Youtube,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEeO7SNCYU4 [accessed Nov 2023]
Charles and Camilla Enjoy Tea and Cake at Big Jubilee Lunch, The Royal Family Channel, Youtube,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHjj-pfkXl0 [accessed Nov 2023]
The Exterminating Angel original trailer 1962, HD Retro Trailers, Youtube,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysYG7qaz29c [accessed Nov 2023]
The Triangle of Sadness official international trailer 2022, Hulu, Youtube,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYDidXdG1Wc [accessed Nov 2023]
The Witches of Eastwick official trailer 1987, Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers, Youtube,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLs1y_KSTKk [accessed Nov 2023]
Acknowledgements
We are deeply grateful to our audience members in New York City (USA), Stellenbosch (South Africa), Xalapa (Mexico), and Suwon (South Korea) for sharing their views and perspectives, and for granting permission to audio-record their interviews.
Funding
The creators received financial support for the research and authorship from
The Leverhulme Trust, Leeds Beckett University and Northumbria University.