Queer Frontiers

Join us for a sojourn where in the long days of high summer everything is not quite as it seems.

Queerness is everywhere, and nowhere. To be queer, and ‘to queer’, is not to subscribe to a binary or destructive antithesis, but to exist in flux and subversion, between the cracks and within the pervasive voids of the normative. Our setting is a time where ‘the queer’ is subsumed throughout and across the norm — trans-norm, if you will. Subversion here is ubiquitous, and ‘camp’ has morphed into its mainstream, palatable and profitable manifestation. We instead visualise queerness as a philosophical framework, of everything and nothing; to consistently question our imposed commonality, our understanding of a queer aesthetic is revitalised, and one that is ever-changing, rarely static, and never settled once and for all.

With a talk by artist and architect Marf Summers, followed by a group discussion, we will reject discourse that centres queernesses’ foundations as aesthetic, to question what ‘queering architecture’ means, and the extent to which anything and anyone can be queered – even you.