Participants moved through the Talbot Rice Gallery, responding to a series of cues read into a microphone, accompanied by music. Divided into three “positions” and three “movements”, the cues took inspiration from images and ideas in Ahmed’s text, emphasising what was in and out of view, foregrounds and backgrounds, as well as oblique and slanted ways of extending and retreating one’s body in space.
This research was aimed to influence Nemer’s work with museum audio guides, expanding and reimagining the kinds of embodied encounters museums might foster. The language developed for A Queer Phenomenology Movement Score contributed to the scripts of Trees Are Fags and I Don’t Know Where Paradise Is.
