Incantations For A Queer Future (2018)

Performance.

This piece created the foundations for “A Topography of Excesses”, my ongoing artistic research project. In it, I examine the construction of the white, Western, cis-male body as the archetype for the human, in relation to which all other bodies are constructed as abnormal; taxonomized, documented, classified, and ultimately produced as diverging, inadequate, monstrous entities; illegible, yet hyper-visible. The piece interrogates how this same logic governs biometric recognition technologies, which seek to continue the colonial project of classification and taxonomization of human beings by creating a veneer of supposed objectivity.