'Queer Space' course examines 'bathhouses,' 'cruising grounds' (Tufts University)

[mountaineer]

'Queer Space' course examines 'bathhouses,' 'cruising grounds'
Celine Ryan
May 22, 2018 at 7:50 AM EDT

* Tufts University is offering an experimental course this fall titled “Queer Space: Explorations in Art and Architecture” exploring how those concepts have shaped "queer understandings and experiences of space."
* According to the syllabus, students will "navigate spaces of queer world-building," including "bathhouses," "nightclubs," and "cruising grounds.

...  The course will be taught by Jackson Davidow, a PhD candidate in the History, Theory, and Criticism of Art and Architecture department at MIT. Jackson is currently working on a dissertation titled Viral Visions: Art, Epidemiology, and Spatial Practices in the Global AIDS Pandemic, which he touts as “the first transnational history of artistic and activist responses to HIV/AIDS.” ...

“Beyond ruminating on queer spatial aesthetics and form,” he adds, “we will navigate spaces of queer world-making (e.g. bathhouses, nightclubs, cruising grounds, alternative art venues, domestic settings, archives, memorials, the Internet), as well as spaces of queer appropriation (e.g. museums, campuses, streets, cityscapes, environments, borderlines).”

“We will also explore the queer dimensions of space in relation to spatialized concepts of diaspora, (de)-colonization, globalization, gentrification, and climate change,” the description concludes, noting that students will “have the opportunity to create an artwork or exhibition proposal” as part of their coursework. ...

Rest of article at Campus Reform

The things that pass for knowledge
I can't understand

[Oceander]

[mountaineer]

That so-called professor said a whole lot of words, but none of them make sense. How is a street a place of "queer appropriation"? Sometimes a street or a museum is just, well, a street or a museum.