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Queer Contemporary Art of Southwest Asia North Africa
Presents new perspectives on queer visual culture in the Southwest Asia North Africa region from queer artists as well as scholars who work on queer themes. With contributions from both scholars and artists this volume demonstrates that queer visual culture in the SWANA region is not only extant but is also entering an era of exciting growth in terms of its versatility and consciousness. The volume focuses on artworks produced in the contemporary era while recognizing historical and contextual connections to Islamic art and culture within
localities and regions from the pre-modern and modern eras.
By framing this volume as unambiguously located within queer studies the editors challenge existing literature that merely includes some examples of queer studies or queer representation but does not necessarily use queer studies as a lens through which to engage with visual culture and/or with the SWANA region. Through four interrelated sections - Gender and Normativity Trans* Articulations Intersectional Sexuality and Queer SWANA - this volume probes several previously unexplored academic areas namely the intersections of queer studies with other fields.
Part of the Critical Studies in Architecture of the Middle East series.

Queer Communion
Ron Athey
Ron Athey is one of the most important prolific and influential performance artists of the past four decades. A singular example of lived creativity his radical performances are at odds with the art worlds and art marketplaces that have increasingly dominated contemporary art and performance art over the period of his career.
Queer Communion an exploration of Athey’s career refuses the linear narratives of art discourse and instead pays homage to the intensities of each mode of Athey’s performative practice and each community he engages. Emphasizing the ephemeral and largely uncollectible nature of his work the book places Athey’s own writing at its centre turning to memoir memory recall and other modes of retrieval and narration to archive his performances.
In addition to documenting Athey’s art ephemera notes and drawings the volume features commissioned essays concise 'object lessons' on individual objects in the Athey archive and short testimonials by friends and collaborators including Dominic Johnson Amber Musser Julie Tolentino Ming Ma David Getsy Alpesh Patel and Zackary Drucker among others. Together they form Queer Communion a counter history of contemporary art.

Quantum Art & Uncertainty
At the core of both art and science we find the twin forces of probability and uncertainty. However these two worlds have been tenuously entangled for decades. On the one hand artists continue to ask complex questions that align with a scientific fascination with new discoveries and on the other hand it is increasingly apparent that creativity and subjectivity inform science's objective processes and knowledge systems.
In order to draw parallels between art science and culture this publication will explore the ways that selected art works have contributed to a form of cultural pedagogy. It follows the integration of culture and science in artists' expressions to create meaningful experiences that expose the probabilities and uncertainties equally present in the world of science.

Queer Visibility in Post-Socialist Cultures

Queer Cinema in Europe
