テート・ギャラリーさんのインスタグラム写真 - (テート・ギャラリーInstagram)「We're celebrating #LGBTHistoryMonth and #QueerandNow by launching Queerate Tate! Queerate Tate is a wonderfully open series of personally written responses to Tate artworks, looked at through a queer lens. 🌈🔍 Queer art collectives from across the globe have been invited to Queerate Tate, and we want you to take part too! Read along, share your thoughts on the artworks and support the writers. Is there a work you'd like to write about? Share and tag us in your posts! A selection of your queer-ated written pieces will appear on our feeds and on our website for all to enjoy. First up we're introducing Tuna Erdem and Seda Ergul from @Istanbulqueerartcollective and @queerartprojects. Istanbul Queer Art Collective was founded in 2012 to engage in live art, with a view that the documentation of performance is an art form in itself. Their performances range from the durational to the intimate and can move into other forms like sound art or installation. 'If, as author Teresa de Lauretis declared "it takes two women, not one, to make a lesbian", then with a bit of imagination a painting like Walter Sickert's "Two Women on a Sofa" offers the possibility of a lesbian reading. There’s something not-quite-right about it, which was the original meaning of the word "queer". Through the absence of facial features (hinting at something secretive), invisibility is made visible, whilst the erasure of identity is underlined, emblematic of the invisibility of lesbian history. At odds with convention, there’s neither nudity nor the fetishistic rendering of clothing. The bodies are conduits of gesture, demonstrating the deep-seated intimacy of those used to being intermingled, easily, comfortably -- to the point of becoming each other's sofa. It's as if we are looking at a mass created by the infamous "lesbian urge to merge", hence the matching outfits and hairdos!' - Tuna and Seda Thank you to Tuna Erdem and Seda Ergul from @Istanbulqueerartcollective and @queerartprojects for intro-ing LGBTQIA+ History Month with our first queer reading! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜💗🤍🤎🖤 Walter Richard Sickert, Two Women on a Sofa - Le Tose c.1903–4」2月1日 21時46分