Abstract

GASPARRI, Javier  and  MARTI, María Eugenia. Configuraciones orgiástico-literarias del Chelsea Hotel: un espacio queer antes de lo queer. Mora (B. Aires) [online]. 2017, vol.23, n.1, pp.41-52. ISSN 1853-001X.

In the vertex between two decades (1960-1970), as if it was an aleph among cultural itineraries, the Chelsea Hotel established itself as a crossroad of time and being where art's vital praxis could have been materialized. The extensive artist's list that created from inside its walls or about them, can sometimes make the transcendence and dense significance of these productions go unnoticed, even when they were breakthroughs for art and thought. On the basis of a new reading of Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac's texts, and in accordance with the artist's work such as Warhol and Mapplethorpe, we will try to unveil the identity built from transience (the temporal guest's indelible footprint) that creates the imaginery of a place where "it all happened". The Chelsea Hotel represents an excessive place where dissident bodies converge (both human and textual) in an orgiastic exchange, designing marginal outlines of life and literature, in full corrosion of the gender/sex and affective relationship norms. In such manner, it configures itself not only as a New York's urban iconoclastic milestone, but as the prefiguration's place for queer's subversive potential.

Keywords : Chelsea Hotel; Art and Northamerican Literature; Queer; Nomadism.

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