How does our relationship to survival change overtime? Is crisis something we have become too attached to as an educational tool? How may shock, or shaking, give way to alternatives?
Shocked Quartz takes its name from the metamorphic features that develop on rocks during a highly pressured event such as a meteorite crash or natural disaster. Currently, the transgender movement has reached a specific moment in history, which some describe as the ‘transgender tipping point’. It is a moment of rupture, dissensus and instability, but also opportunity and potential – a shaking of structure and the production of new meanings. Shocked Quartz will examine themes of political and personal crisis, initiating dialogue around how queer, transgender people survive during tumultuous times.
Featuring Artists
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley
Lou Lou Sainsbury
Tirdad Hashemi
Puer Deorum
Alex Diamond-Rivlin
Gray Wielebinski
Matthew Rimmer
Rudy Loewe
Deen Atger
Shadi Al-Atallah
Eve Stainton
Ebun A Sodipo
Romeo Roxman
Co-curated by Alex Diamond-Rivlin and Deen Atger
