Queer Frontiers
15 Jun—22 June (8 dates)
Edinburgh & The Lothians Event Exhibition Workshop
Event Summary
Queer Frontiers is an interdisciplinary project that seeks to explore the corporate capture of the ‘queer’ as we progress towards a future where the queer has become the norm, neutralised and fully shorn of its power to question, dismantle and reimagine.
Book hereTime
Event 5pm-9pm, Exhibition 9am-5pm.
Date(s)
15 Jun—22 June
Location
Custom Lane, 1 Customs Wharf, Leith, Edinburgh EH6 6AL
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Additional Location Info
Venue has level access in to the gallery space, and an accessible toilet. Full accessibility information and the safe space policy can be found on the Custom Lane website.
Supporters
Organiser
Kirsty Watt, Samuel Stair, Andy Summers
Queer Frontiers is an interdisciplinary project that seeks to explore the corporate capture of the ‘queer’ as we progress towards a future where the queer has become the norm, neutralised and fully shorn of its power to question, dismantle and reimagine.
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. The aftermath of the collective reflection and exhibition will remain on display at Custom Lane for further engagement and as a queering of what an exhibition can be in and of itself.
The talk and exhibition opening will take place Sunday 15th June 5pm-9pm, and free tickets can now be reserved.
Kirsty Watt
Kirsty Watt (she/her) is a practicing architect whilst currently undertaking a PhD exploring accessibility and inclusivity in historic environments at Leeds Beckett.
Samuel Stair
Samuel Stair (he/him) is a designer, writer and researcher in Glasgow. He is a graduate of the Glasgow School of Art and the University of Queensland, and won the 2019 dissertation prize at the Mackintosh School of Architecture.
Andy Summers
Andy Summers (he/him) is an architect, educator, curator, and public-programmer specialising in architecture and the built environment, and is a Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Architecture Fringe.
With support from Edinburgh Architectural Association.
