Caleb Waldorf

How might queer theory and practices inflect/torture/distort or otherwise improve ‘relational aesthetics’? Is the relational aesthetics meme often complicit, if accidentally, with heteronormativity? How does queer practice and theory politically develop the space of the democratic ‘violence of
participation”? A paranoid concern launches our topic — may cliches of relationality mitiigate against excess, ephemera, and the variable and uncontrollable power of the engaged artist/writer? Asking what is a queer space of participation, the list itself enacts its own making for an intersubjective ‘queer’ text.