"Restricted movements: Queer Embodiments, Performance, and limitations as choreography
Precarious, unstable, uncertain, and shifting terrain remains concrete in the ways that LGBTQ+ folx gather. Given recent events that have re-organized social and spatial configurations, where the movements of bodies have become confined in place and distant from others, this panel continues queer sensibilities of performance, choreography, and performativities as part of our post-pandemic moment. With mandates to remain physically distant reshaping how we gather and make space for each other, we are poised to reconsider queer placemaking, and once more, reconcile with alternative modes of relationality. What kinds of intimacies, frequencies, and registers foster or take up ways of coming together? How do artists, performers, and cultural practitioners look to queer epistemologies to care for marginalized, QTBIPOC, and other communities made vulnerable in a continued time of loss, again? As we contemplate this moment, we invite work and scholarship that considers new pivot points, new axes, and new and different forms of bodily impact that have emerged within queer performance and performative projects.
Chair, alejandro t. acierto
PANELISTS:
TBD, Dr. Roy Perez
Queering the Museum Nayland Blake's Curatorial Practice
Erin Riley-Lopez, Tyler School of Art Temple University
Laura Aguilar's Spectacular Self-Objectification: Mestiza Opacity and the Archive Prosthetic
Jay Buchanan, Washington University in St. Louis