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+ individualsâ experiences of brutal and subtle forms of…
Category: Queerfacture
Colonisation, Heteronormativity and Ironic Subversions: Tejal Shah and Yuki Kihara
Anisha Verghese Colonially imposed taxonomies of gender, and sexual orientation have led to the replacement and elision of alternative ways of understanding sexuality. In the late-nineteenth century, the emerging Indian middle classâformed through the intersection of colonialism, missionary colonial Christianity,…
Radical Privacy: Affect as Action in Oh Inhwanâs Aesthetic of Intimacy
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 âadult Korean malesâ only. [1] (Figures 1 and 2). The further…
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 âWhy do people walk into the disciplinary regime of the state?â –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, Â 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…