ROSHANA RUBIN MAYHEW

Feeling the Blues chapter in Queereal Secretions: Artistic Research as Exquisite Practice. eds Nicky Coutts & Henry Rogers. 2023.

This publication offers a collection of responses to a rumination on the shapeshifting queerness of queer research and the conceptualisation of the ‘exquisite’ as a means by which materiality and matter in artistic research practices are understood. The work of teh contributors gathered here evoke several non-normative appraoches to creative practice, exquisite fabulations that address an array of exquisite moments and the potential of the arts as queer forms of radicalised matter. Collaborative working practices here become a methodology based on a shared experience of queerness in its broadest sense. A dynamic and responsive relationship is formed within communities of practice. Ideas of excess and spillage, of things that are difficult to describe, the limitations of the lexical, the live time of performance and the temporality of sound, the fragmentary and the fleeting, help sweat the queer and the real into existence.