Queer(ing) Craft is guest edited by Daniel Fountain.
… Editorial 8: Queer(ing) Craft
Category: queer craft
Crafting Queer Spaces: Living Beyond Limits
Living Beyond Limits (20 October 2018 – 3 February 2019) at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art was a queer re-exploration of its art collection. Assistant Curator Helen Welford and I (Claire Mead) invited members of local LGBTQIA+ communities to co-curate and queer it with us. Based on their choices of objects to be displayed, co-curators wrote interpretation labels based on their own personal experiences and thoughts around queerness...
… Crafting Queer Spaces: Living Beyond Limits
Practice-Based: On Smocking, Science and Sex
Matt Gale’s work examines systems and relationships, exploring unusual or unexpected pairings of partners as a means to reference the queerness of the natural world – that actually nature is far less binary than we might imagine.
… Practice-Based: On Smocking, Science and Sex
Practice-Based: Quilting the Lesbian Archive, Sarah-Joy Ford
I stand in cold stacks. My hands run over the pale green boxes scored with pencil marks. I rummage. A syllabus, a letter and tangled endings. An under-stairs cupboard filled with pornography. S&M dyke night flyers with tea in the living room. Email trails: reaching out, and toward something…
… Practice-Based: Quilting the Lesbian Archive, Sarah-Joy Ford
Adejoke Tugbiyele’s Hybrid Forms and Second-Skins
Adejoke Tugbiyele (b.1977, New York, USA) is an award-winning, queer, black artist. Her work often comments on human rights issues around the world, and her own identity as a queer woman of Nigerian descent. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York where she continues to make artwork and engage in advocacy projects.
… Adejoke Tugbiyele’s Hybrid Forms and Second-Skins
The Charleston Doll’s House: “A home for whoever you want to be.”
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. This well-known aphorism can be easily applied to Lot Kessels’ Charleston Doll’s House, a miniaturised rendering of the historic East-Sussex home associated with the Bloomsbury Group (Fig. 1).
… The Charleston Doll’s House: “A home for whoever you want to be.”
Spotlight: Oz Bender’s Deconstructive Craft
Our spotlight this month is the emerging mixed-media artist Osgood (Oz) Bender who uses craft and material processes as a foundation to explore concepts of body modification.
… Spotlight: Oz Bender’s Deconstructive Craft
Excerpt from LOTE by Shola von Reinhold
“LOTE is a literary novel which follows present-day narrator Mathilda’s fixation with the forgotten black Scottish modernist poet, Hermia Drumm. Lush and frothy, incisive and witty, Shola von Reinhold’s decadent queer literary debut immerses readers in the pursuit of aesthetics and beauty, while interrogating the removal and obscurement of Black figures from history…”
… Excerpt from LOTE by Shola von Reinhold
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