In A Quiet Queering
with Luke Pell
Course Structure: Self paced, 9 hours across 30 days
Course Venue: Online & by correspondence
Course Dates: March 2021
Course Fee: Pay-what-you-can
In this course, Scotland based maker Luke Pell offers a series of tactile scores, accompanying readings and soft sharing that invites folx to find, map and tune to old/new queer spaces and approaches for some quieter, poetic ways of being.
This course is designed as a quiet companion: a series of materials to turn to and be with when needed, a wee window to crack open, over the course of a month.
This course is for:
LGBTQIA+ individuals with an interest in going soft and slow
Folks who like words and movement
This is for the quiet types.
For the folx who find their ways in the spaces in between.
For the folx who use(d) the backstreets and the ginnels,
the secret silent cuts and ‘out of hours’ for getting around.
For those who would sun / moon bathe in cemeteries, linger
in parks and in forests, beside the shore, on the edges
Readings will include material from other writers, poets, artists and activists exploring queer experience, embodiment and environment. We will gradually work through material independently before arriving at our own propositions to share across the group. A collective mapping, that creates and shares tactile poetic practices as ways of finding, nurturing, noticing, cultivating and tending to spaces of queer solace amidst the normy noise.
Fascinated by detail, nuances of time, texture, memory and landscape Luke Pell is an artist based in Scotland who makes work across forms, through conversation with people and place. Luke imagines alternative contexts for performance, participation and discourse that might reveal wisdoms for living.
Working with words and/as movements to draw together seemingly unrelated constellations of bodies and thought their poetic-choreographic practice takes form as intimate encounters in print and in person.
Deliberately collaborative, deeply dyspraxic, unashamedly tender, radically soft, unapologetically gentle and quietly queer Luke’s work has appeared throughout the UK and internationally. As a maker, curator and dramaturg Luke is often a companion to other artists and organisations thinking through practice to navigate processes of emergence, creation, re-imagination and change.
Images:
1) Lead Image by Kitty Fedorec
2) Secondary Image by Any Sinead
3) Bio Image by Tiu Makkonen