)frottage(
what does it mean to relate against the grain of relation?
this installation enacts a methodology based on
keguro macharia's theory of frottage: rather than use
relationality to tell complete narratives around a
reparative kinship or universal humanity, frottage
confronts the frictional zone where bodies, forms, and
concepts brush against one another in tenuous,
ephemeral, and perhaps even violent ways.
calling on two contrasting moments of intimacy that
emerged toward the end of the six years that my
partner and i lived together in egypt, conditioned
within the ongoing reverberations of state violence,
this multisensory installation unthreads a range of
frictional sensations which work in counterpoint to
one another, asking how the queer intimate can
produce an alternative, deliberately abrasive
relationship to sensuality, the sensory, and sense-
making more broadly.
back to installation
this installation enacts a methodology based on
keguro macharia's theory of frottage: rather than use
relationality to tell complete narratives around a
reparative kinship or universal humanity, frottage
confronts the frictional zone where bodies, forms, and
concepts brush against one another in tenuous,
ephemeral, and perhaps even violent ways.
calling on two contrasting moments of intimacy that
emerged toward the end of the six years that my
partner and i lived together in egypt, conditioned
within the ongoing reverberations of state violence,
this multisensory installation unthreads a range of
frictional sensations which work in counterpoint to
one another, asking how the queer intimate can
produce an alternative, deliberately abrasive
relationship to sensuality, the sensory, and sense-
making more broadly.
back to installation