Spaces are haunted by the many bodies that successively inhabited them over time, leaving spectral traces of their presence. In my art practice I aim to push taboos back into our more immediate consciousness, freeing them of the labels that have been contrived to ward them off. While designing the installation titled Room 19 6, lingering questions remain and are exhibited by the objects implemented in the space. How is a “queer culture” born out of its own exile and then communicated through various generations? How is it contained through the grid of normativity and how does it exceed it?
ROOM 19 6 – 2012 – Installation Dimensions variable
JA MES MITCHELL PERLEY
www.thefigureeight.com
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born Chicago, Illinois, 1978
education BA in Audio Acoustic Science, Columbia College Chicago, 2005 MFA, San Francisco Art Institute, 2012