Cruising the Edges of the Field
Crusing the Edges of the Field
2026 (in progress), archival research, proposal
This project begins from a simple observation: landscapes do not only organize land, they organize what can be seen and remembered. They function as dispersed archives, where infrastructures, divisions, and patterns of use shape what becomes historically legible and what remains absent.
Queer lives often appear within these spaces only as fragments, traces, or silences. Rather than reconstructing a complete history, the project treats absence itself as material. It approaches landscape as a site where memory emerges through movement, gesture, and embodied encounter.
The work examines how space choreographs bodies, how orientation and visibility are structured, and how certain presences are stabilized while others remain peripheral. Archives are understood in similar terms, not as neutral repositories but as systems that regulate what can appear.
Moving through landscape and archive, the project adopts cruising as a method: a non-linear, attentive way of navigating, following detours, fragments, and unintended encounters. These movements are accompanied by performative gestures and documented through photography and moving image, forming a dispersed, process-based counterarchive.
Parallel archival research focuses on gaps, omissions, and points of breakdown. Through annotation, redaction, and fragmentation, materials are not completed but extended. What emerges is not a coherent narrative, but a shifting field of relations shaped by absence, disorientation, and trace.
