QUEERFACTURE

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

Icon image – Shannon Novak, Safe Space Alliance. Permission of the Artist.
QUEERFACTURE – Vol. 17:2, 2021