The *Bubble [2022]

• temporary queer/ art space

• launched by Unheilbar Heidelberg and Disco Zwei, Mannheim

• April of 2022, program organized by QuArtEer-Collective

•  visual and performance art, workshops, film and twitch screening, community space

Memento Disco

The program featured a variety of events, including a performance, a makeup workshop , and a streaming of the Online Drag Contest (4th edition), which brought together drag artists from Europe, the US, and beyond, inspired by the drama, euphoria and tension of the Eurovision Song Contest.

be.longing

• light installation combined with paintings

• motion-sensitive lights and a mix of warm and fluorescent tones

  
  

I am interested in the existence of color in physical, psychological, and philosophical spaces. The installation aimed to highlight the subjectivity of color and time perception: particularly in the context of queerness, based on a theory that growing up queer unfolds on a different timescale than in a heteronormative context.

A talk on "chromophobia," a personal investigation into the subtle devaluation of color as "emotional" in contrast to the rationality ascribed to line and form in European art history was also part of the program.

Watch the talk here.

For the exhibition component, I created be.longing, a light installation combined with paintings. The space was lit by motion-sensitive lights and a mix of warm and fluorescent tones. The installation aimed to explore the existence of color in physical, psychological, and philosophical spaces. Through the distorted lighting, I sought to highlight the subjectivity of color and time perception - particularly in the context of queerness, based on a theory that growing up queer unfolds on a different timescale than in a heteronormative context.

The month-long program fostered a space where people from various backgrounds met, connected, and shared in a communal and liberating environment.