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"Quantum States and Queer Realities is a series of works that access the inherent queerness of quantum mechanics using these ideas to explore the fluid nature of queer identities. The work look at what it means to have a multifaceted and multidimensional existence, creating speculative spaces that hypothesize what it means to have a higher dimensional existence. Quantum States and Queer Realities utilizes printed matter, projection-mapped animation, and immersive installation to reorient ideas of space, speculative/science fiction, the future and utopia through a queer lens.
How does one depict queerness, fluidity, multiplicity, potentially, existence, and space-time? Utilizing the aesthetics of color abstraction, the fluid nature of ribbons and the expansiveness of space itself Quantum States and Queer Realities create its own dialect to speak and explore these ineffable qualities of the universe and imagines a queer future that is derived from the romanticizing of quantum mechanics and astrophysics."Label
2023, The Art of Gender (outdoor sign installation)
This work uses ideas from quantum mechanics to explore the fluidity of queerness. Gender identities are not black and white— they develop over time and through discussions with yourself. This work helps envision a more expansive concept of queerness by showing that gender has no rules. As someone who is non-binary and genderfluid, I often feel connected to works of art that capture queerness in a way that words cannot. Art has no rules, just like gender.
–Hannah Whaley, WU student