Aay Liparoto
Let’s Talk Queer Pleasure & Shame – This project is looking at what effects collective silence has on our bodies, looking specifically at how laws that created silence in relationship to gender and sexuality affected a generation in the UK. How did we communicate beyond language, through music, movement and touch to express layers of unarticulated identity? What are the online and physical spaces we turned to? What were our coping mechanisms?
This work weaves together guided touch and audio-based intimate storytelling, about the impact of laws and silence on queer lives in the UK. This research builds from a series of ongoing interviews of women and trans men who grew up under the impact of Section 28: a law that banned the ‘promotion of homosexuality’ in schools between 1988-2003. The work in development is looking for ways to invite audiences into physical connection and reflection—with their body and with others.
This research is supported by the Flemish Community.