(A study for)
Everything sounds like crying eventually
2019, Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts, Kingston, ON
In this exhibition we (Michelle Bunton and GHY Cheung) begin to devise a karaoke performance in which crying together is taken up as a humorous tactic of public intimacy and shared embarrassment with the potential for queer worldmaking. What queer ways of being are opened up by karaoke, with its possibilities of social promiscuity and mingling of friends, strangers and lovers? How might we embrace failure and disappointment (in amateur performance) as intrinsic rather than antithetical to a utopian approach to queer kinships? This study is part of a larger project that will continue to think between crying and collective performance, diffraction and iridescence, kinships at hand and at a distance.
