2025.04.21 FOR ALL THAT CREEPS

FOR ALL THAT CREEPS

Brian Bradley

Stephen Early

(ARTIST RESIDENCY)

Queer ecology, coined by Cate Sandilands is “a loose, interdisciplinary constellation of practices that aim, in different ways, to disrupt prevailing heterosexist discursive and institutional articulations of sexuality and nature, and also to reimagine evolutionary processes, ecological interactions, and environmental politics in light of queer theory. Drawing from traditions as diverse as evolutionary biology, LGBTTIQQ2SA movements, and queer geography and history, feminist science studies, ecofeminism, and environmental justice, queer ecology currently highlights the complexity of contemporary biopolitics, draws important connections between the material and cultural dimensions of environmental issues, and insists on an articulatory practice in which sex and nature are understood in light of multiple trajectories of power and matter.”

Entangled with nature, in a built environment not designed for us, an invasive species, an unmitigated pest, a disruptive weed. Survival requires time: to understand our own biologies, to learn what sustains us, to find home in unfamiliar places.

This exhibition will explore the notions of the queer, masculine-feminine, and histories of liberation guided through the narrative lens of queer ecology and begins to propose another: creep ecology.