Connecting Cubbyholes – Höhlenbauen als queere Raumpraxis

Description

Childhood as a narrative is largely told from an adult perspective, shaped by nostalgia, idealization, and normative ideas of growing up. The work negotiates the tension between this place of longing and the critical examination of how heteronormative perspectives shape the view of childhood in retrospect. The work approaches childhood as a queer space in which growing up is not understood linearly, but as growing sideways – a processual, open becoming beyond normative logics of time. The term cubbyhole refers to self-built retreats of childhood. Caves that become queer counter-spaces in which objects are deliberately used against their intended, normative uses. Cave building thus becomes a practice that does not attack normative orders, but shifts them through their use. Malleable elements allow contexts to emerge in the process of building and break with the static exhibition space.