Xan Goetzee Barral
Gazing and Glancing: Moments of Queer Mutuality in Public Spaces
The intimate, idiosyncratic and ephemeral qualities of the phenomenon of the 'queer gaze' are explored across past, present, and future temporalities through the application of Sara Ahmed’s ‘Queer Phenomenology’ to a series of interviews.
The phenomenon of the 'queer gaze' is idiosyncratic and pantemporal, materialising across past, present, and future temporalities. The 'queer gaze' is defined as non-verbal interactions between queer people and the research considers how this phenomenon creates a liminal and virtual space in unexpected ways, as well as the unique value this has to queer people. This reading of the phenomenon of the queer gaze has not been widely documented due to its inconsequential and ephemeral nature, and the research attempts to understand how this experienced and why it is significant. The research is led by a series of interviews and applies Sara Ahmed’s ‘Queer Phenomenology’ to propose how the 'queer gaze' exists in the memory recall from the past, in the ‘liminal parity’ of the present and through gazing into future potentialities.
The pantemporal nature of the 'queer gaze' simultaneously existing across past, present, and future states.