Ep #1.2 Queer Kinship | Worlding Podcast
Description
Benny Nemer has always been curious about relationships, especially love relationships, but not exclusively. Benny works as a multidisciplinary artist, diarist and researcher. He came to an interest in kinship through an interest in queerness. Queerness as a method, as an aesthetic and also an intrigue in the way that queers form relationships beyond the kind of reproductive family structures that are valorised and emphasised by dominant western culture.
From there, Benny and Renae meander into more-than human realms by focusing on Benny’s audio guide “Trees Are Fags” (2018) which encourages the listener to find a park, or the garden of their mind to perform a series of choreographed cruising gestures, referring to “the trees that populate those places where men congregate to have sex”.
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