Queer affections to remedy the unseeable Museum Queeries Cluster, Thinking Through the Museum
“Without community, there is no liberation…but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist.”
—The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House, Audre Lorde
Who has access to queer spaces, and what happens when they start disappearing? Making connections between shortages of queer spaces in both Winnipeg and Halifax, this exhibition aims to create its own queer liminal environment in support of Black, brown, and Indigenous 2SLGBTQIA++ communities.
Acknowledging the profound queer histories of these two mid-sized city centres, we commit to the urgent need to highlight voices that have been excluded and erased from history, and lift up all those who have been left out. From drag performances, music videos, photography, and installations, Treaty Space Gallery is transformed by artists from both Winnipeg and the Atlantic region into a multidimensional space that illustrates our diverse and expansive queer creative expressions while leaving room to learn about the functionality and growth of the queer Halifax community.
Photo credit: Elle Noir
