Queer Feminist Media Praxis: The Queering of the Corn
I inhabited, with a small and changing group of queer feminist “art farmers,” an impermanent, ramshackle house in Nebraska called Victoria over one intense and also gutted month in 2021. I used this strange stay to return—first in my mind, next on my studio’s walls, and then in this and other writing and media—to other generative homes and roads: the liminal and powerful sites that can invoke transformation. I never supposed that these imaginative visits, or my embodied one in Nebraska, were a healing or even escape from COVID, even as the virus set me into flight, illness, anxiety, isolation, and then, late in my stay at Art Farm, queer feminist community and media praxis. Learning from disability justice, a lifetime in AIDS activism, and my own enduring of long COVID helped me shy from particular words or their projects: healing, escape. I stayed with the IS: a living and reckoning with; a making art in a place and time.
Published in zine, 2025
with Bea Hurd and Z Behl
Topics: COVID-19 & Disability Justice | Experimental Film | Experimental Writing | Feminist Media | Film & Video Projects | Method | Pandemic Media | Public Writing | Queer & Trans Media | Recent Work (2024-25) | Video Art |