Sophia Powers Figure 1 (right), Figure 2 (left) 2002: Seoul, South Korea. Inside a gallery the multi-media artist Oh Inhwan constructed a makeshift laundromat with posted entry restrictions for “adult Korean males” only. [1] (Figures 1 and 2). The further…
Author: avantika
Cappella Of Queerness: Queer Space in Catholicism
William Dendinger III Abstract The Catholic Church has held a contentious relationship with the LGBTIQ2+ community. The complicated history between the two groups and current viewpoints of the Church elicit questions on equality and the reasoning behind anti-LGBTIQ2+ rhetoric from…
Afterwor(l)ds: Beyond the Tipping Point of Queer Victory
Nishant Shahani “Why do people walk into the disciplinary regime of the state?” –Gopal Guru, Humiliation: Claims and Context, 15. While completing the writing of my book manuscript, Pink Revolutions in the Fall of 2018, the Supreme Court of India…
Habitude
Nic Cooper Fig. 1. Nic Cooper, Out in the Streets, 2021. Oil on canvas, 36″ x 48″. Painting has taught me to be open to change, to respond to unexpected situations, to be resilient and motivated. It has given me…
bttm manifesto
By bttm methodology (Richard Orjis & val smith) The bttm manifesto emerged from a co-creative session with fellow artist val smith and me. We questioned how such a provocation might support queer creative practices, pedagogy and friendship and disrupt power…
Taking a Risk
Jury Tosh Kobayashi This piece of writing is an experiment. It is an experiment because it is a proposition to pay attention to an artistic practice that resists definition. It is an experiment because to propose a study of this phenomenon…
Interview with Steve Lovett
Gregory Minissale All images by and courtesy the artist. Steve Lovett is an artist and educator working in print education and research at Elam, University of Auckland. His work is archiving images and stories. In these photo-based collages and prints,…
Corners as Contact: An Interview With Jaysen Hohlen
Meagan Marsh Pine Meagan Marsh Pine: Thanks for meeting Jaysen, would you mind starting off by briefly describing your practice? Jaysen Hohlen: I am an artist, writer and curator. My artistic practice deals with housing and gay cultural geographies, particularly…
Coming Out in Practice: Considering Shannon Novak’s Sub Rosa
Francis McWhannell This essay was first published on the Pantograph Punch on 11 April 2019 under the title ‘Sex in the Gallery’.[1] It was commissioned as part of a partnership between the website and the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in Ngāmotu…
Painting in Pieces
Glen Snow All images by and courtesy the artist. His voice had long thinned, even before it went to the grave, dissipating into dusty pages along with the formalist spell and paternal hegemony it cast. I still remember, though, wondering…