Objects Of Display: Presenting Intimate Queer Histories Through Sculptural Practice

This research project employs a sculptural practice to generate intimate and minor queer histories that challenge the normative modes involved in the production and display of material histories. It examines how archaeological artefacts are bound within a western construction of linear time and how their display in traditional museums uphold heteronormative and colonial narratives about the past. I aim to challenge these linear narratives by re-imaging the lives and purposes of real artefacts through the production of queer artefacts, ones that actively embody my own lived experiences as a queer person. Drawing from David Getsy and Gordon Hall’s work on queer abstraction, I produce and display artefacts in ways that embrace non-disclosure and avoid systems of classification that museums rely on. This research emerges from recent cultural shifts which challenge notions of museums as official sites of history and culture, and generates counter histories through a focus on the lived experiences of queer people.

Grantor dc:publisher

UNSW, Sydney

Year dc:date

2023

Author dc:creator

• McDavitt, Patrick

• queer history
• queer abstraction
• queer
• abstraction
• museology
• anzsrc-for: 36 CREATIVE ARTS AND WRITING

Statement dc:rights

• open access
• CC BY 4.0
• free_to_read

Licence

• https://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
• https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Language dc:language

en

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/25353

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:unsworks.library.unsw.edu.au:1959.4/101646