*YOU ARE INVITED* 🌈 * SUMMER CAMP* ⛺️ 11-16 JUNE / by the QUEER SCHOOL OF THOUGHT at Central Saint Martins @spatial_csm@csm_architecture_march@csmarchitecture
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I don’t often post work (or work-related events) on here but I just had to for this one! For the past 2 years I have been running ‘Queer School of Thought’, an experimental design studio situated on the MA Architecture course in year one (@csm_architecture_march ). For this I worked with some amazing people including @marfsummers@_jackobrien_@aleccccci@h_ll_nd and @queer_aided_design .
This year I received a wonderful funding opportunity that allowed me to conceive a summer events programme led by some amazing queers (!), hosted within a sparkly, ephemeral structure made in collaboration with CSM’s Events build Team. Shoutout to @michael.parish
Add this to your calendar and come join us for a week of fun, craft and some important conversations surrounding queer & diverse identities and the spaces that we occupy (and should occupy)!
Full list of events (including eventbrites) coming up ⬆️
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#queerspaces #queerarchitecture #queerart #lgbtq #summercampCSM
📡 EVENTS LIST 🪩*YOU ARE INVITED* 🌈 *SUMMER CAMP* ⛺️ 11-16 JUNE / by the QUEER SCHOOL OF THOUGHT at Central Saint Martins @spatial_csm@csm_architecture_march@csmarchitecture
TUESDAY 11 JUNE — 6PM (CSM Graduate Showcase Private View)
Launch of the SUMMER CAMP programme by the Queer School of Thought, as part of the graduate showcase at Central Saint Martins. “Extra” special performance by APHRODITOS - The goddess of Cyprus exploring Queerness in culture. / @aphrodi.tos
THURSDAY 13 JUNE — 7PM
QUEERING PRACTICES: A PLACE TO BE
Join us for an evening of relaxed discussion about DIY queer spaces and how a culture of limited institutional support has caused us to speak, craft, walk and bounce our way into existence. Over the course of an evening, we will address these questions while take part in a communal craft activity. Come along, craft, and get involved in the discussion.
Organised by Mia Cormack @miajcormack (Lethaby Gallery’s creative producer) and Laavuh collective. Special thanks to Julia Dotson, Eve Bull and Lauren Dennis. / @laavuh
Eventbrite link:
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To be continued ➡️
📡 EVENTS LIST 🪩* YOU ARE INVITED*🌈*SUMMER CAMP* ⛺️ 11-16 JUNE/ by the QUEER SCHOOL OF THOUGHT at Central Saint Martins @spatial_csm@csm_architecture_march@csmarchitecture
SATURDAY 15 JUNE — 2PM
‘TOAST’ PRESENTATIONS: STUDENT-LED EVENT
Architecture students from across levels of study (BA & MA) will present their projects to each other and explain how queer theory & practice influenced their work and design methodologies. *This will take the format of a ‘pecha kucha’ presentation and each student will present for as long as it takes for a slice of bread to toast!*
SATURDAY 15 JUNE — 4.30PM
THE QUEER ORDER: by QUEER AIDED DESIGN
How can we create a temporary space that requires active participation of the body – the queer self- to be sustained? Is the ‘Queer Order’ just the queer body? As such, forming part of the Queer school of Thought’s Summer Camp programme we intend to generate an *ANTI-TENT*; a structure made of participants and students held together with fabric and theory. Join us as we make a space to exist within, as well as wear. / @queer_aided_design
SATURDAY 15 JUNE — 6PM
PARIS IS BURNING: FILM SCREENING
Join us for a free, *educational* screening of Jennie Livingston’s documentary exploring the underground subculture of ballroom dance in the 1980s among New York City’s African American, Latino, gay, and transgender communities. (PG-15)
SUNDAY 16 JUNE — 4PM
CREATURES FROM THE QUEERCRIP LAGOON
Join us for an afternoon exploring the intersection of queer, trans, disabled and neurodiverse experience. We are particularly interested in how our experiences have been misrepresented in recent news coverage and how these have fed narratives of difference. There will be a discussion with short film on paternalism followed by some personal and collective movement.So, get your tentacles ready and take up space! *BSL interpretation provided*
Organised by The DisOrdinary Architecture Project @disordinaryarchitecture and Take Up Space. Special thanks to Scarlett Barclay @barclayscarlett and Lauren Dennis @daurenlennis .
“I found sanctuary in those places.”
Kleanthis Kyriakou (@kleoldn ) is a London-based artist and spatial designer whose work remembers LGBTQ+ spaces lost to gentrification and the rise of dating apps.
His latest installation, ‘Ring the Bell’, honours The Bell - a legendary LGBTQ+ pub in King’s Cross that was a haven for alternative music, punk fashion, and radical politics throughout the ‘80s and ‘90s, at a time when Section 28 restricted local authorities from ‘promoting homosexuality’.
Drawing on the form of religious altars, the work is both a memorial and a call to protect and celebrate queer spaces today.
See ‘Ring the Bell’, a new commission for this month’s Friday Late: Lost Queer Venues, on 24 April at V&A South Kensington.
🔗Link in bio to find out more.
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Image and video credits:
Images of ‘The Glory’ East London pub and LGBTQ+ performance venue, courtesy of The Glory
‘The dance floor at The Bell’, ‘Keran at the door’, ‘Berni DJing’ and ‘The Bell inside’, images from ‘Movements’, Bernard Hodson (owner), Martyn Bundy.
‘Night out at The Bell, Kings Cross, London’ video footage via Mamba2105 on YouTube, ca. 1991-93
Image of ‘The Joiner’s Arms’ pub exterior, Ewan Munro via Flickr
Scenes from Queer Scenarios #3
Walking While Queer: a haunting, written by Tom Dyckhoff, performed by Queer Scenarios.
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Photos: @niceberg_lettuce
QUEER SCENARIO #3
6.30pm-8pm, Thursday 20th March
LVMH Theatre, Central St Martins, Granary Square, London
FREE. BOOKING link in bio.
Walking While Queer: a haunting
By Tom Dyckhoff
Performed by Queer Scenarios
Choreography by Heidi Rustgaard
The setting: a street, somewhere, sometime, anywhere, anytime...
In this theatrical performance, an extract from writer Tom Dyckhoff’s upcoming memoir is staged for the first time by members of Queer Scenarios, choreographed by Heidi Rustgaard.
In the piece, Tom returns to his pasts, revisiting sites where he experienced queerphobic abuse at pivotal points in his life, to explore how these sites and events helped form his identity.
“These places are mostly humdrum and everyday,” writes Tom, “an office at work, say, or a patch of pavement in south London. The incidents, too, are often banal – a piece of graffiti, or a word whispered – though sometimes violent. We notice, quite rightly, the most dramatic forms that queer repression takes, such as murder or execution, imprisonment and queerbashing. Yet more often they take on subtle, everyday and insidious shapes.”
Content warning: this performance contains multiple depictions of queerphobic abuse, physical and verbal, in public and private spaces, as well as derogatory terms.
Tom Dyckhoff is a writer and historian using stories, words and images to explore cities, landscapes and architecture.
He is Postgraduate Critical & Contextual Studies Lead for CSM MArch Architecture.
SAVE THE DATE for our conversation with @elkekrasny on aRCHITECTURE and care – an exploration of feminist and queer approaches. This is the first in a series of QUEER SCENARIOS that will take place at CSM over the next few months.
An update with booking information will follow.
Supported by @csmarchitecture@csm_architecture_march
Thank you to @niceberg_lettuce for suggesting the type face. #takeupspace #TUS
#queer #feminist #architecture #care
