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'Queer' as a Practice
"Queer is not an 'instead of', it's an 'inclusive of'."
- Adele Morrison
"Queer is not an 'instead of', it's an 'inclusive of'."
- Adele Morrison
As a queer artist, I aim to create work that challenges normative modes of existence and offers an alternative, 'queer' way of understanding, engaging with, and being in the world. When I say ‘queer’ though, I'm not necessarily referring to a way that is associated to the LGBTQIA+ community, although the starting point for my work is often decidedly queer in that sense. I'm talking about a way that subverts the normative and resists the boxes people try to put it in; what Adele Morrison articulated as, "not an 'instead of'. . .an inclusive of." 'Queer' as a practice acknowledges that theatre is polysemic and must be willing to take risks, embrace an experience that is not yet stable, and, above all, be accessible to all.
"Sound queers the self/world boundary, all day, everyday. In so doing, it blurs the edges of any self that the subject‐machine cares to hail; even in the midst of the 'hey you, here’s your house music' there are other noises afoot, other sounds playing, other ways to become something more or less than one more obedient minority subject. "
- Drew Daniel, All Sound Is Queer
"Sound queers the self/world boundary, all day, everyday. In so doing, it blurs the edges of any self that the subject‐machine cares to hail; even in the midst of the 'hey you, here’s your house music' there are other noises afoot, other sounds playing, other ways to become something more or less than one more obedient minority subject. "
- Drew Daniel, All Sound Is Queer
THEORY / PRACTICE INFLUENCES:
Jack Halberstam
Judith Butler
Drew Daniel
Alexander Doty
Lynne Kendrick
Glen Neath
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