Open AccessPaper Bag Explosions: A Theory of Becoming from Zora Neale Hurston to Frantz Fanon
Author(s) -
Jade E. Davis
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
lateral
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2469-4053
DOI - 10.25158/l4.1.8
Subject(s) - queer , materiality (auditing) , highbrow , art , aesthetics , scholarship , queer theory , art history , sociology , visual arts , literature , gender studies , political science , law
Sheila Malone’s work is both digital art piece and critical essay, which explores the queerness and the vibrating machine in light of both recent scholarship on objects and materiality and the author’s own work as a performance artist. Malone’s art cuts across and questions the divides between highbrow and lowbrow, permanence and ephemerality, the G-rated and the X-rated. The digital installation and accompanying essay understand the space of inbetweenness as a potential site for queer interventions into existing material orders.