The Art & Spatial Praxis research group is proud to announce the publication of three new articles featuring queer and anti-colonial perspectives on its Plot(ting) platform. Open Glossary for Queer (Immaterial) Architectures by artist collective Die Blaue Distanz traces emotional and temporal queer connections across cities and scenes. In SELL YOUR FART! BUTT PLUGS AGAINST GAS DRILLING! BLACK HOLES MATTER! Amelia Groom interviews art collective Yangamini on the meaning of holes, sexuality, and extractive violence on indigenous lands. Queer and Anti-Colonial Gardening: A Syllabus by M. Ty offers a rooted invitation to unlearn colonial ecologies through dispersed, non-normative gardening practices. Together, these contributions offer readers critical tools and imaginative propositions for rethinking how space, bodies, and resistance are entangled. Read more on the plotting website: plotting.rietveldsandberg.nl
Open Glossary for Queer (immaterial) Architectures – Blaue Distanz
In this glossary, queer artist duo Die Blaue Distanz traces emotional, spatial, and temporal connections between diverse queer ways of living and learning. The glossary entries are based on conversations, field notes, found footage, told memories, shared practices, and findings from bars, archives and protagonists e.g. in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tbilisi, New York, Berlin, Dresden, and Amsterdam.
Butt Plugs Against Fracking! An Interview with Yangamini – Amelia Groom
Writer and art historian Amelia Groom interviews art collective Yangamini (meaning “holes” in Tiwi) about the spiritual, historical, practical, political, and sexual meanings of holes, the need to offer refuge to First Nations sexual minorities, and the butt plug sculptures they make, which draw attention to the extractions that threaten these communities.
Queer and Anti-Colonial Gardening: A Syllabus – M. Ty
Imagine this syllabus as a stalk with two leaves, each with its direction of reach: one that invites reflection on the way imperial projects have leveraged botanical knowledge for the purposes of indigenous dispossession and global extraction; and another that gathers dispersed practices of gardening which refuse colonial modernity’s exhaustion of land and labour, along with its humorless fetishization of heterosexual reproduction as the holy grail of social value.
In this glossary, queer artist duo Die Blaue Distanz traces emotional, spatial, and temporal connections between diverse queer ways of living and learning. The glossary entries are based on conversations, field notes, found footage, told memories, shared practices, and findings from bars, archives and protagonists e.g. in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tbilisi, New York, Berlin, Dresden, and Amsterdam.
Butt Plugs Against Fracking! An Interview with Yangamini – Amelia Groom
Writer and art historian Amelia Groom interviews art collective Yangamini (meaning “holes” in Tiwi) about the spiritual, historical, practical, political, and sexual meanings of holes, the need to offer refuge to First Nations sexual minorities, and the butt plug sculptures they make, which draw attention to the extractions that threaten these communities.
Queer and Anti-Colonial Gardening: A Syllabus – M. Ty
Imagine this syllabus as a stalk with two leaves, each with its direction of reach: one that invites reflection on the way imperial projects have leveraged botanical knowledge for the purposes of indigenous dispossession and global extraction; and another that gathers dispersed practices of gardening which refuse colonial modernity’s exhaustion of land and labour, along with its humorless fetishization of heterosexual reproduction as the holy grail of social value.
The research group Art & Spatial Praxis launched the digital artistic research platform Plot(ting) on April 17th 2024. Plot(ting) emerges as a publishing platform showcasing art, research, and spatial practices. Currently it harbors contributions by Blaue Distanz, Amelia Groom, M. Ty, Flavia Pinheiro, Giulia Damiani, Francisca Khamis & Maia Gattás Vargas, Neeltje ten Westenend & Hanneke Stuit, Mariana Balvanera, Patricia de Vries, and Liza Prins.
The research group Art & Spatial Praxis launched the digital artistic research platform Plot(ting) on April 17th 2024. Plot(ting) emerges as a publishing platform showcasing art, research, and spatial practices. Currently it harbors contributions by Flavia Pinheiro, Giulia Damiani, Francisca Khamis & Maia Gattás Vargas, Neeltje ten Westenend & Hanneke Stuit, Mariana Balvanera, Patricia de Vries, Amelia Groom, and Liza Prins. Here you can read in brief about the different contributions. Read more on the plotting website: plotting.rietveldsandberg.nl
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