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Wax Bodies: Candles, Queerness, & Taking Up Space, Moya Shpuntoff
Wax Bodies: Candles, Queerness, & Taking Up Space, Moya Shpuntoff
Bachelor of Fine Arts Senior Papers
My partner and collaborator Callaway Fox and I use queer surrealist installation, craft practices, and performance in order to address queer and disabled temporality, articulating our experiences as disabled queer femme artists through abstracted and literal exploration of femme bodies in space. In performance and installation works Hospital Performance: Part I and Hospital Performance: Part II, we responded to our experience of marginalization, medical malpractice, and emotional isolation, ultimately exploring queer and disabled temporality through queer surrealism. Hand-poured scented candles became metaphors for queer and disabled bodies, and along with other craft practices used in this work, are a …