Linda Valerie Ewert & Birte Heier
Linda Valerie Ewert (she, her, Lint) is a freelance art researcher and art worker who writes about contemporary art and its discourses in various formats.
Birte Heier's practice wavers between theory and practice, between curation, cultural education and organization. Together with Sebastian Stein, Heier (all pronouns) has been co-director of Kunstverein Langenhagen since 2023.
then and there \I/ a look into queer temporalities
In our time in the workroom thealit we will think, research, make and host in a processual way. In a star-shaped expansion of the participants, a pool of stories, images or thoughts will be processed and made visible in a zine.
“Queerness is essentially about the rejection of a here and now and an insistence on potentiality or concrete possibility for another world.”
José Esteban Muñoz, Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity, 2009
We will deal with queer temporalities / queer time and situatedness, or the question of how people perceive time and the passing of time in relation to their own self-determination, but also in relation to society and community. In this way, we move from the private to the social, from one's own body to social issues
and back again. After all, critical feminist education has often contributed to queer liberation in the first place, to perceiving one's own temporality, re-reading the past and queerulating it and the present.
We invited people whose take on our questions interests us and who will send us a response in a form of their choice. The connections here can be very personal and unprofessional, and can concern one person. We use this transparent, subjective selection of perspectives to question authority in the art world and to reveal that curators never research in a vacuum (aka white cube), but have a tangible body.
These correspondences serve as starting material for an intensive discussion and for further research in the space and in the zine. We look forward to the gradually emerging content and evenings of community, some of which will fill the zine, some of which will fizzle out.
