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Date & Time
September 10, 2019October 6, 2019
Admission
Free; open to all.
Venue
The Murthy Agora (Studio 129) at the Rubenstein Arts Center
2020 Campus Dr
Durham, NC 27708 United States
Description

queerXscape reflects on the present from a queer collaborative perspective through a series of landscapes in mixed-media collage and video. The installation presents viewers with collaged landscape vistas and video that bring together queer camp with an environmental uncanny: familiar terrain interspersed with remnants of contemporary glass-walled urban architecture, unruly bodies, broken statuary, random trinkets, flowers, and food. The exhibit is a collaboration between two queer artists living between Durham, New York, and Istanbul and presents an aesthetic response to dominant modes of economic development that at once bridge these places and intensify their disparities in terms of urban and environmental life.

About the Artists

Image courtesy of Sinan Goknur & Max Symuleski.

Sinan Goknur

Sinan Goknur is an artist and PhD Candidate in the Computational Media, Arts & Cultures Program at Duke.  Sinan’s academic work investigates the return to the social in the arts after the 1980 military coup in Turkey.  Prior to coming to Duke, Sinan was a member of the MAW, an artist collective in Minneapolis, MN seeking to activate public engagement with art and politics through impromptu outdoor performances and large-scale mixed media projections.

 

Max Symuleski

Max Symuleski is an artist, writer, and PhD Candidate in the Computational Media, Arts & Cultures Program at Duke.  Their current academic work investigates the role of maintenance labor in post-WWII U.S. art and urbanism. Max holds an MA in Historical Studies from the New School for Social Research and a BA in Art History and Visual Arts from Sarah Lawrence College.

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