Notes on a Terrestrial Performance of Outer Space

From Elsewhere

“…Thinking through decolonial ways of articulating queer beyond academic parlance and sensing dis/embodied subjectivities that are at once posthuman, animist and technological, these performative pieces consider how queer futurity reimagines the different forms of mythos and telos of South Asianness. Pavithra Prasad’s (2023, this issue) performance script sends the queer body into an extra-terrestrial episteme, a move that is underscored by the accompanying video. The original performance, which took place at the 2019 Queer Symposium at the Annual Conference on South Asia, is dislocated from its bodily form and set afloat in the unmarked space of a PowerPoint presentation.…”