This exchange connects queer artists with others from across the world. The works in this project focus on the role that queer linkages and connections have on one's overall queer experience. These appear as celebrations of chosen families or reflections on feelings of loneliness and isolation. They question the importance of queer spaces, who these spaces are for, and who do they might leave out. The works showcase many different mediums and take nearly any form, yet they were all sent through the mail. As a collection, the works in this exchange explore the role that queer connections have on queer experiences.

Queer Linkages features the work of sixteen artists from across six different countries. Each participant mailed out and received works from other artists. Then, each artist installed an exhibition of the works that they received, along with the riso printed “exhibition text,” in their own home. This virtual exhibition is an archive of these individual works and 16 different physical exhibitions.

Queer Linkages was curated and organized by Josh Porter (August 2022)

Participating Artists:

Abigail Hamilton – Cambridge, MA, USA
Agnija Anca – Puebla, Pue., Mexico
Allison Anne – Minneapolis, MN, USA
Brenna Foley – Lexington, KY, USA
Claire Thompson – Lexington, KY, USA
Corrin Turkowitch – Lexington, KY, USA
David Ojeda – Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico

Dustin Cecil – Olive Hill, KY, USA
Igor Zeiger – Tel Aviv, Israel
Irina Novikova – Minsk, Republic of Belarus
Johannes – Gevelsberg, Germany
Josh Porter – Lexington, KY, USA
Lena Knezevic – Washington, DC, USA
Philip Green – Philadelphia, PA, USA
Piotr Wójcik – Warszawa, Poland
William Mellott – Tainan City, Taiwan