“Queer Correspondence” — Alex Margo Arden and Caspar Heinemann, Beatriz Cortez and Kang Seung Lee, Ezra Green and Martin Hansen, rafa esparza, Gelare Khoshgozaran, David Lindert, Atiéna
n his seminal book (2009), José Esteban Muñoz maps queer strategies for world-building as they pertain to the nature of utopia. For Muñoz, a queer future, and thus a queer utopia, is always on the horizon. As queerness evolves, so does its ideal. As a result, utopia only exists through collective or individual attempts to achieve it, locate it, and access it. For Muñoz, utopia is always “then and there” rather than “here and now.” He names an important component of this action toward utopia as “intermedia,” which he defines as a “radical understanding of interdisciplinarity.” Based not on intersecting disciplines of art, but rather on the intermediate spaces of creative action that skirt classification,
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