Queer Frontiers
14 Jun—18 June (5 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.
Time
11:00 - 18:00
Date(s)
14 Jun—18 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 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.
With the queer now often reduced to a consumable aesthetic, the project seeks to remind us of queer theory’s foundations as a critical, subversive intersectional theoretical approach that enables all of us to look at the world in new ways, to use queer theory as a means to challenge close-minded assumptions, and to dismantle traditional structures that explicitly uphold essentialist views, discriminatory categorisations and rigid, binary positions.
Queer Frontiers will seek to subvert the commodification of the queer, repositioning the practice in space, time and architecture as a key ally in the shift to redefine our relationships to the planet, each other, and our own self in moving towards a more sustainable and hopeful future.
The event on the Sunday will incorporate an exhibition and provocations within the gallery, talks from invited speakers, and a collective reflection. 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. Recordings of the conversations and discussions made throughout the event will be played in the space; a spectre of the event that was.
Full details of the event on Sunday 15th June 2025 will be announced shortly.
Kirsty Watt
Kirsty Watt (she/her) is a designer and researcher currently undertaking a PhD exploring accessibility and inclusivity in historic environment 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.
