‘Queer is, after all, a spatial term, which then gets translated into a sexual term, a term for a twistedsexuality that does not follow a “straight line”… The spatiality of this term is not incidental.’Sara Ahmed, 2006. Queer Phenomenology, 67. In rūḥ al-rūḥ – jan-e janān, Ayman Kaake is twisting. His body, projected onto sheets […]
In the nineteenth century, French philosopher Victor Cousins seeded the idea of l’art pour l’art (art for art’s sake)[1], a phrase that has echoed into contemporary neo-liberal discourse to negate the need to consider politics in art encounters. However, for bodies that exist within any intersection of marginalisation and oppression, there is an understanding that […]