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Synopsis
This installation presents a vision of queerness that is defined by performance and rooted in South Asian culture and history. The viewer is led through a warren of lanes in Kolkata by the artist Kaur Chimuk to a traditional printing press where they create a word using a queer alphabet. Each letter is tied to a key term in queer culture and corresponds with a short performance by Chimuk relating to that term. The performances that the viewer sees, and the order they see them in, is defined by the word they select. At the end, the viewer can print and take a hard copy of their pamphlet.
