Kisses at the End of the Tunnel is a body of work emerging from my engagement with queer archives. I began research in 2015 following an event at Philadelphia's Institute of Contemporary Art where Brad Duncan presented a sampling of his archive of periodicals and ephemera from radical left social movements as programming for Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme's exhibition The Incidental Insurgants. Included in his collection were materials from queer publications: Gay Sunshine, Fag Rag, Gay Liberator. Encountering these set me on a path. I saw myself in history, and I saw how queerness was situated within a network of interdependant socio-political projects.
In this series, I sought to give form to the queer narratives intercepted in my research, largely drawing on materials issued 1880-1990. Output traversed mediums, from video-based installations and sculpture to lithographs and 2D, painting-referencing articulations.
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