Exploring Queer Heterotopias: Spaces of Resistance and Belonging

Description

Duke Mound, BrightonÕs Palace Pier, the Marina, Brighton Sauna, Black Rock place, Portslade Basin Road Local Wildlife site and its naturist beach, Brighton Pavilion, the Pride parade, your home during the lockdown and sometimes your bodyÉ all these are heterotopias Ð places that are outside the norm, that are strange or in other words queer. In fact, Brighton, as a holiday seaside town where non-normative and even transgressive behaviour is rife, can be seen as a heterotopian city. As such, it has attracted throughout history the LGBT community and it is no wonder that it became the UKÕs LGBTQ capital.

The ÒQueer HeterotopiasÓ exhibition, at The Ledward Centre [TLC], produced by SEAS Brighton in collaboration with The LGBTQ+ Centre New York and the Preus Museum (Norway), celebrates these spaces and takes the visitors on a tour of past and present heterotopias.

Works by:
CJ Reay
Berg & Hoeg
Leonard Fink
Atlas Easton
Annis Harrison
Mustafa Boga
Abdullah Qureshi
Menelas
Eleanor Lousie West
Claudia Sneddon & Joel Morris
Leonie Bellini
Siofan OÕCeallaigh
Emilie Christine P. Newman
Tate Anderson
Helen Grundy
Youcef Hadjazi
Hanneke Wetzer & Nadiah
Campbell X
Gil Mualem-Doron
Queeruption
Ophelia Alldaye
Nelson Morales
Nomusa Musa Mtshali
Jose Gomez

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