Queerfacture is coined here as a term, open to critique, that aims to provoke thoughts and ideas about different kinds of artmaking. How can facture, technique, spatialization, composition or practice transform LGBTIQ2+ individuals’ experiences of brutal and subtle forms of discrimination? How have artists expressed in their visualisation, embodied practices and materialisation such issues as stigmatisation and othering, exclusion and marginalisation, hate speech and overt forms of violence? How do race, disability, gender and class interact with LGBTIQ2+ identities?
In encountering each other and retelling stories LGBTIQ2+ artists have found ways to celebrate difference. Artistic facture has included such things as culture jamming, appropriation, reversal, recoding from within, camouflage, schizoid splitting and re-assemblage, withdrawal and obfuscation, abjection, transgression, parody, camp, queer duration, spatial displacement, abstraction, indexical materialism and direct action. How are embodiment, materiality, duration, spatial organisation and performance able to suggest the particular phenomenal aspects of identity and/or oppression and resistance? This issue of Drain presents papers, artworks, thought-experiments and creative writing that analyse the power of manufacturing, of creating differently.
IN THIS ISSUE
Feature Essay
Colonisation, Heteronormativity and Ironic Subversions: Tejal Shah and Yuki Kihara – Anisha Verghese
Essays
Radical Privacy: Affect as Action in Oh Inhwan’s Aesthetic of Intimacy – Sophia Powers
Cappella Of Queerness: Queer Space in Catholicism – William Dendinger III
Afterwor(l)ds: Beyond the Tipping Point of Queer Victory – Nishant Shahani
Habitude – Nic Cooper
Thought Experiments
bttm manifesto – Richard Orjis & val smith
Taking a Risk – Jury Tosh Kobayashi
Interviews
Interview with Steve Lovett – Gregory Minissale
Corners as Contact: An Interview With Jaysen Hohlen – Meagan Marsh Pine
Reviews
Coming Out in Practice: Considering Shannon Novak’s Sub Rosa – Francis McWhannell
Art Projects
Painting in Pieces – Glen Snow
Notes on the Queering of Abstract Painting – Michelle Ross
He Asked About the Quality – Areez Katki
Queerfacture – Jonathan VanDyke
SWITCH – Robbie Handcock
Boys Dancing – Sam Duckor-Jones
Creative Writing
Episode of Hands – Hart Crane
Love Sleep – Elsa Gidlow
Glass Sleeper – Gregory Minissale
A Letter Written In Queer Longing – Jasmine Fetterman
This issue was edited by Gregory Minissale