Queering the Practice

Project Leads: Luca Asta and Lucie de Palau

Number of participants: 20

Duration: 5 days

Project outline:

What does it mean to queer a practice?
Queering your practice allows you to dismantle social expectations. Such dynamic impact the re-codification itself of social norms. Hence, it engages with marginalised collectives for the sake of representation, disruption and visibility.
The aim of this workshop is to put into practice those ideas, through conversations and debates, into an exhibition held by the participants. This workshop aims to engage with queer, not as an identity, rather as an action. It is a matter of positioning, of engagement. What is it to queer a space, a practice?

Timetable:

Day 1
AM: Book Exchange
PM: Collective reading

Day 2
AM: Discussion about queering a practice: Consideration on the making of the work, and the first clues for it’s curatorial approach.
PM: Malik Nashad Sharpe (they/them) open lecture

Day 3
AM: Brainstorming activity: Selection of an average of five places in order to apply different curatorial possibilities on queering a practice.
PM: Publication task distribution: layout design naming, printing, advertising

Day 4
AM: Finish publication content
PM: Finish publication design

Day 5
AM: Printing and distribution of advertisement
PM: Exhibition event for the publication