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Between// Around

Fri, August 31, 9:00 to 10:30am, ICC, E5.9

Abstract

This paper will be presented alongside my 2017 video work between// around. Engaging in queer as a politics of fluidity, viewing fluidity as any subject without the privilege to a fixed and visible economic, medical, legal and cultural institutional identity. This lack of representation directly causes a subject to be in a constant state of flux, while remaining invisible or being read as performed. Queer has fundamentally sat at the intersection of race, class, gender, sexuality and differently abled bodies. As our communities gain institutional recognition we can learn from collectives such as the VNS matrix who utilized public and gallery space to contribute to the open sourcing of feminism, allowing for a range of identities to occupy space within the feminist subject. The collective effectively deployed their jouissance by going to source of their oppression and turning that into the very tools of their agency. We todays contemporary queer communities can learn from this, by turning the epicenter of how we are constructed within a heteronormative context, which is to be reduced to a particular set of identity politics and turn that into queer as a politics that refuses to essentialize a particular identity.

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