Cruising as Method

Cruising as Method

Since 2025 • Artistic research

Focus
Archival research • Spatial research

References
Sara Ahmed, Ann Cvetkovich, Saidiya Hartman, José Esteban Muñoz, Simon Ofield

Method
Movement • Embodied intervention

In my artistic and curatorial research, I am experimenting with cruising as an embodied method for moving through space, bodies, images, landscapes, and archives. Rooted in queer practices of desire, searching, signaling, and encounter, cruising becomes a way of approaching what is partial, obscured, withheld, or not yet fully legible.

As a research method, cruising reflects on how bodies are oriented through space, how certain paths become available, and how others require deviation. In the archive, this means following fragments, silences, signs, and traces rather than reconstructing complete narratives.

In dialogue with José Esteban Muñoz’s writing on cruising and queer futurity, the method points toward what is not yet fully present: a gesture, a possible encounter, a history sensed before it can be named. Across my work, cruising informs projects such as Strafsache, Nothing Is Connected to Everything, and Cruising the Edges of the Field, where queer presence emerges through fragments, gestures, testimony, refusal, and partial reading.