Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: sicalíptica-dada-queer

Abstract

This article is an attempt to articulate the look at the historical avant-garde from a queer methodology, which challenges the perspectives of the classical historiographic narrative, in the words of José Esteban Muñoz is «looking at the past again for the first time». It seeks to break down rigid arguments, presenting the great lady of Dadaism, Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, as a personality of the cultural scene of the early twentieth century. Closer to popular culture, to mass spectacles, to the European and American green wave, than to the usual discourses of artistic contexts and dynamite avant-garde groups, and rescuing a queer personality avant la lettre, a blurred, elusive personality, very difficult to define, who manages to assume that implausible balance of the sicalipsis.