Painting Punks and Pansies: Art as Affective Archive of Punk and Queer Subcultures in Postwar Kreuzberg
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis will analyze neo-expressionist paintings made in Kreuzberg during the late 1970s and 1980s. The analysis will include Helmut Middendorf’s “Electric Night” (1979), "Großstadt Eingeborene" (1979), “Big City Natives” (1980), and “The Singer” (1981), Rainer Fetting’s “Van Gogh und Mauer V” (1978), “Grosse Dusche” (1980), “Figur an der Mauer” (1987), Salomé’s “Self-portrait” (1981), “Verschärftes Aufsteigen” (1981), “Nackt in Gelb” (1981), Luciano Castelli’s “Olé” (1981), and their joint work “Rote Liebe” (1979), as well as Bernd Zimmer’s “Brennende Fabrik III” (1981), and “Verwandlung” (1983). Ultimately, I seek to demonstrate that these works offer insight into the obscured subcultural communities of postwar Kreuzberg. \nMy analysis of these artworks will draw on several methodologies, frameworks, and concepts. It will be heavily centered on affect theory, masculinity and queer theory, semiotics, fashion history, as well as the deep and complex entanglement of all of these notions. I will also draw from the anecdotal and oral histories provided to me by the artists themselves, artistic experts, and other individuals involved in Berlin’s postwar artistic and subcultural scenes. Through these many avenues, I will unpack and analyze the aforementioned artworks in order to demonstrate how they present distinctive transgressive aesthetics that can be read as an affective archive of Kreuzberg’s punk and queer subcultures of the late 1970s and 1980s.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.013 | 0.012 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".