돌보는 귀여움 : 서투르지만 귀여운 베어 커버 댄스와 퀴어 친밀성
Caring Cuteness: Clumsy-but-Cute Bear Cover Dance and Queer Intimacy
초록
본고는 ‘베어 커버 댄스 팀’이 걸그룹 댄스를 커버하며 귀여움을 구현하는 방식에 주목한다. 게이 공동체에서 일반적으로 ‘베어’는 표준적인 체형보다 큰 체구의 게이들을 통칭한다. 최근 동아시아 국가들에서는 젊은 베어들이 커버 댄스 팀을 만들어, 주로 케이팝 걸그룹의 춤을 추는 영상을 유튜브에 올리곤 한다. 케이팝 아이돌 팬덤에 기반한 커버 댄스 영상의 전지구적 확산과 관련 댄스 팀의 전문화 경향 속에서, 그 커버 댄스는 동아시아에 특화된 베어 하위문화이자 정체성 수행의 의미를 지닌다. 케이팝 걸그룹이 보여주는 의무적 귀여움이 여성의 상품화와 관련이 있다면, 베어 커버 댄스는 미학적 완성도보다 돌봄의 정동적 요청에 따라 서툴지만 아이 같은 귀여움을 추구한다. 본고는 그 귀여움을 ‘돌보는 귀여움’ 이라는 퀴어 친밀성으로 명명하고자 한다.
- keywords
- 케이팝, 걸그룹, 커버 댄스, 귀여움, 돌봄, 베어 하위문화, 아시아 베어다움, 퀴어 친밀성, K–pop, girl group, cover dance, cuteness, caring, bear subculture, asian bearness, queer intimacy
Abstract
This article focuses on the way which ‘bear cover dance teams’ perform cuteness covering girl groups’ dance. In gay community, ‘bear’ generally means big gay men who are overweight. Recently, the young bears in several East Asian countries made their own cover dance team to copy K–pop girl groups’ dance moves, record them and upload the videos onto Youtube. The cover dance is considered as both the bears’ subculture and their identity performance localized on East Asian countries, in line with globally spreading cover dance videos on Youtube and tending to make the cover dance teams specialized based on K–pop idol fandom. While the mandatory cuteness of K–pop girl groups is related to the commodification of women’s bodies, bear cover dance looks clumsy in aesthetic perspective but pursues childlike cuteness according to affective requirement of caring, which also is called ‘caring cuteness’ as kind of queer intimacy.
- keywords
- 케이팝, 걸그룹, 커버 댄스, 귀여움, 돌봄, 베어 하위문화, 아시아 베어다움, 퀴어 친밀성, K–pop, girl group, cover dance, cuteness, caring, bear subculture, asian bearness, queer intimacy
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