Queer

This conversation explores how queerness has impacted on and informed the art world – from artistic practice to critical discourse – considered from the perspective of the artist.
Shifted from a derogatory slur, to a badge of honour, artists who identify their practices as ‘queer’ today call forth utopian and dystopian alternatives to the ordinary, adopt outlaw stances, embrace criminality and opacity, and forge unprecedented kinships, relationships, loves, and communities.
Launching Queer, the latest book in the Documents of Contemporary Art series published by the Whitechapel Gallery and The MIT Press, the discussion is led by David J Getsy (The School of the Art Institute of Chicago) and includes artists Emily Roysdon and Prem Sahib.