put to (queer) use?
Rotterdam, 2021
Willem de Kooning Academy, Social Practices
Theory course, Collective/Assembly


Guiding students on attempting to read texts through and alongside building and performance. (Failed) Attempts to act out literally metaphors of 'support', 'orientation', 'paths', 'lines' and other spatial analogies. From Queer Phenomenology, Sara Ahmed.

"Bodies are hence shaped by contact with objects and others, with “what” is near enough to be reached. They may even take shape through such contact or take the shape of that contact. What gets near is both shaped by what bodies do and in turn affects what bodies can do. The nearness of the philosopher to his paper, his ink, and his table is not simply about where he does his work, and the spaces he inhabits, as if the “where” could be separated from what he does. The “what” that he does is what puts certain objects within reach. Orientations are about the directions we take that put some things and not others in our reach."