{"id":846,"date":"2023-11-21T16:40:26","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T16:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/?page_id=846"},"modified":"2024-01-25T14:39:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T14:39:25","slug":"alpesh-kantilal-patel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/theworldthatbelongstous\/writings\/alpesh-kantilal-patel\/","title":{"rendered":"Alpesh Kantilal Patel"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"846\" class=\"elementor elementor-846\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-0ea8ef5 elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no 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https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/the-world-that-belongs-to-us_LOGO-700w-300x204.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-25 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-e37b562\" data-id=\"e37b562\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2c41495 elementor-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"2c41495\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<a 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class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\"> Where are all the Britsh Asian Artists?<\/span>\n\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-256dc09 elementor-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"256dc09\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-size-xs\" role=\"button\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Making Oneself at Home<\/span>\n\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-25 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-f9a8781\" data-id=\"f9a8781\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-06245cd elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"06245cd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1a4745a elementor-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"1a4745a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/theworldthatbelongstous\/events\/\" class=\"elementor-button-link elementor-button elementor-size-xl\" role=\"button\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\"><\/span>\n\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a4fa859 elementor-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"a4fa859\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" class=\"elementor-button-link elementor-button elementor-size-xl\" role=\"button\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\"><\/span>\n\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1a4357e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"1a4357e\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-0c1d46b\" data-id=\"0c1d46b\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-b847bb9 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"b847bb9\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-543e51b\" data-id=\"543e51b\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2880bad elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"2880bad\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Making Oneself at Home<\/h3>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-da7375e elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"da7375e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">by Alpesh Kantilal Patel<\/h3>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-30112c1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"30112c1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-de1bf32 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"de1bf32\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-58f3e9b\" data-id=\"58f3e9b\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-93e1582 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"93e1582\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/1-Author-at-home.jpg\" data-elementor-open-lightbox=\"yes\" data-elementor-lightbox-title=\"1 - Author at home\" e-action-hash=\"#elementor-action%3Aaction%3Dlightbox%26settings%3DeyJpZCI6OTMwLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczpcL1wvdGhlbmV3YXJ0Z2FsbGVyeXdhbHNhbGwub3JnLnVrXC9kaWdpdGFsXC93cC1jb250ZW50XC91cGxvYWRzXC8yMDIzXC8xMVwvMS1BdXRob3ItYXQtaG9tZS5qcGcifQ%3D%3D\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/elementor\/thumbs\/1-Author-at-home-qfqnkrmk5pl12xl02dm9cf22s8bkw1yiacyj824w44.jpg\" title=\"1 &#8211; Author at home\" alt=\"1 - Author at home\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a4d212d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a4d212d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>Author, 4 Rooth Street, Wednesbury, England, 1978<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-a1caaf0 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"a1caaf0\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-ba24053\" data-id=\"ba24053\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-68f26ab elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"68f26ab\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>In relationship to the exhibition <em>The World that Belongs to Us <\/em>(TWTBTU), this essay weaves together my personal experiences, academic work, and engagement with the art world to discuss the idea of \u2018making oneself at home\u2019 and the fluidity of identity and belonging. My family traces its roots to Gujarat, India, and while I have lived most of my life in the United States, I was born in England, where I also completed my doctoral work. My first book, <em>Productive Failure<\/em> (2017), was partly borne out of trying to understand my complex \u2018roots\u2019 and \u2018routes\u2019 \u2013 the triangulated space demarcated by the US, UK, and Indian subcontinent.<sup>1<\/sup> At the same time, my identification as queer and nonbinary adds traction to a simplistic mapping of my personal history onto this discursive space.<\/p><p>More specifically, each chapter of <em>Productive Failure <\/em>aimed to share a different iteration of what could be called a \u2018queer transnational South Asian art history,\u2019 the book\u2019s subtitle. At the book\u2019s core was an earnest interest in illustrating that there is always another story (a word I prefer to history because embedded in it is an element of fiction) to tell.<sup>2<\/sup>\u00a0In this book project, I mobilised queer as both a noun to signal the importance of sexuality to the overarching project and as a verb to destabilise our understanding of \u2018transnational South Asia\u2019. TWTBTU, as an exhibition, could allow us to think anew about what constitutes a queer transnational South Asian art history: this show assembles work by an intergenerational group of artists across countries with large South Asian populations \u2013 Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom.<\/p><p>I am particularly excited by this project as The New Art Gallery Walsall is near where I lived for the first four years of my life \u2013 in a house on Rooth Street in Wednesbury, England. Not surprisingly, I have very little recollection of that time, given my young age. My memories are a mixture of half-remembered lived experiences and imagined ones connected to photographs or anecdotes my family shared. According to Google Maps, the gallery is about a twelve to fifteen-minute drive from the house in which I lived. The house was sold in the 1990s by my grandfather when he came to live with my family in the United States. My nine cisgender heterosexual cousins, two aunts, and two uncles (all from my dad\u2019s side of the family) are scattered across the Midlands, but a few still live relatively close to Wednesbury. When I lived in Manchester from 2005 to 2008 in my early 30s, I visited them a lot, and this was the first time in my life that I openly mingled with family as a queer-identified person. I have far fewer family members in the United States, and I never lived near any of them long enough to visit as consistently as I did in England.<a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\"><\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-56ae0ec elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"56ae0ec\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p><em>The World That Belongs To Us<\/em>, as an exhibition, could allow us to think anew about what constitutes a queer transnational South Asian art history&#8230;<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5798530 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"5798530\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a239bd3\" data-id=\"a239bd3\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b329a88 elementor-widget elementor-widget-toggle\" data-id=\"b329a88\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"toggle.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle\" role=\"tablist\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-1871\" class=\"elementor-tab-title\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-1871\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon elementor-toggle-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-closed\"><i class=\"fas fa-caret-right\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened\"><i class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened fas fa-caret-up\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"\" class=\"elementor-toggle-title\">View footnotes<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-1871\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-1871\"><p><sup>1<\/sup> Alpesh Kantilal Patel, <em>Productive Failure: Writing queer transnational South Asian art histories <\/em>(Manchester, England: Manchester University Press, 2017).<\/p><p><sup>2<\/sup> In the anthology <em>Storytellers of Art Histories<\/em> (Intellect, 2022), my coeditor Yasmeen Siddiqui and I underscore the importance of \u2018storytelling\u2019 as a crucial part of the practice of those of us involved in the writing of the histories of art. Art histories materialize through the work of art historians and those of curators, archivists, and artists, as we highlight.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-ea1c710 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"ea1c710\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6a94a19\" data-id=\"6a94a19\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-594087a elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"594087a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">making oneself at home<\/h3>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-baecc5d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"baecc5d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>Importantly, this notion of making oneself at home also materialises through another kind of kinship, not through bloodlines but shared interests in the visual arts and queerness. Indeed, the exhibition brings together queer-identified artists I have enjoyed getting to know or whose works I have become familiar with over the past two and a half decades.<sup>3<\/sup> For instance, I did a studio visit with Salman Toor a year or two before his important Whitney Museum of American Art show in 2020 that brought his work to a larger audience. I had lived in New York City for eight years in my twenties, but this was perhaps the first time I had seen figurative paintings depict the lives of queer brown people. It was not only the subject matter that was of interest, though; it was his stylistic reference to a host of canonical Western art history. In the <em>New York Times<\/em>, American art critic Roberta Smith titled her 2020 review of the Whitney show \u201cSalman Toor, a Painter at Home in Two Worlds.\u201d<sup>4<\/sup> Only two? I felt like she missed the point of his works: Toor\u2019s world-making is incessant and multiple.<\/p><p>Chitra Ganesh\u2019s 2022 animated work <em>Before the War<\/em>, part of TWTBTU, explicitly references the planetary, constellations, and the cosmological, even as she grounds her film in climate change and ongoing earthbound human strife. I met her in New York City in the late 1990s, have written about her work, and included her <em>Queer Power<\/em><em>: A Time Travelling Coloring Book<\/em> (2021) in an exhibition I just organised in New York City.<sup>5<\/sup> She is the first queer-identified artist of South Asian descent I met, but what I have most cherished about my friendship with Chitra is that it has made clear to me that there is endless multiplicity, difference, and variety within queer transnational South Asian subjectivities. In fact, \u2018diversity and difference\u2019 and \u2018beginning of diaspora\u2019 appear as printed text on the photograph, part of the 1992 series <em>Changing Spaces<\/em> of another exhibiting artist Roshini Kempadoo, whom I have not met. While the work is not explicitly about LGBT*Q identity, I am moved by this series\u2019 poignant focus on mixed-race couples.<sup>6<\/sup><\/p><p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\"><\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f5ad3f8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f5ad3f8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>&#8220;I consider the works on display less as representations of transnational South Asian identities than as active agents bringing into being the notion of home as always in process and protean.&#8221;<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-b1f59f8 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"b1f59f8\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-437326e\" data-id=\"437326e\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-460e616 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"460e616\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1400\" height=\"909\" src=\"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/citra01.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/citra01.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/citra01-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/citra01-1024x665.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/citra01-768x499.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/citra01-1200x779.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-13223e2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"13223e2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Chitra Ganesh\u2019s, <em>Before the War, <\/em>2022. Still from animation. Copyright\u00a0the artist.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5873fdd elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"5873fdd\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-8f13338\" data-id=\"8f13338\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-575a36f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"575a36f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>Indeed, while I have not had the pleasure of meeting all of the artists in the show, their works resonate with me in powerful ways, reaffirming my South Asian-ness as <em>always in a state of becoming<\/em>. So, while the notion of \u2018home\u2019 is connected to my roots, routes, and sexuality, I theorise it here as a feeling equivalent to perpetual mutability and change. Art historian Marsha Meskimmon, in her conversation with Marion Arnold, powerfully notes that \u2018positioning movement, process and becoming (rather than being) at the centre of the concept of \u201chome\u201d suggests that making oneself at home in the world is never fixed or finished and also that the \u201cself\u201d and \u201chome\u201d are mutually emergent\u2019.<sup>7<\/sup><a href=\"#_ftn5\" name=\"_ftnref5\"><\/a> In this way, I consider the works on display less as representations of transnational South Asian identities than as active agents bringing into being the notion of home as always in process and protean.<\/p><p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\"><\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d49066c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"d49066c\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e02f655\" data-id=\"e02f655\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-953f5f4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-toggle\" data-id=\"953f5f4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"toggle.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle\" role=\"tablist\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-1561\" class=\"elementor-tab-title\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-1561\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon elementor-toggle-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-closed\"><i class=\"fas fa-caret-right\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened\"><i class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened fas fa-caret-up\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"\" class=\"elementor-toggle-title\">View footnotes<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-1561\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-1561\"><p><sup>3<\/sup> I have met Salman Toor, Chitra Ganesh, and Sa\u2019dia Rheman in person, all of whom I discuss in this essay. I have not met Jagdeep Rana, Charan Singh, or Sunil Gupta, but am familiar with their works. I conducted an unpublished interview with Singh in 2017, and I wrote a short personal reflective statement about Gupta\u2019s work: \u2018Sunil Gupta\u2019, in <em>Art after Stonewall:1969 to 1989<\/em> (exhibition catalog), edited by Jonathan Weinberg (Columbus Museum of Art: Ohio, 2019), 46.<\/p><p><sup>4<\/sup> Roberta Smith, \u2018Salman Toor, a Painter at Home in Two Worlds\u2019, <em>New York Times<\/em>, December 23, 2020. https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/12\/23\/arts\/design\/salman-toor-whitney-museum.html<\/p><p><sup>5<\/sup> \u201cForm and Formless,\u201d UrbanGlass, Brooklyn, October 2023-February 2024, https:\/\/urbanglass.org\/events\/detail\/form-and-formless. I have written about Chitra\u2019s work here: \u201cChitra Ganesh at Rubin Museum,\u201d <em>Artforum<\/em> 57, no. 2 (October 2018): 232 and \u201cThe Art of Queering Asian Mythology,\u201d in <em>Global Encyclopedia of LGBTQ History: A-F<\/em>, edited by Howard Chiang (New York City: Charles Scribner\u2019s Sons, 2019), 127\u201334.<\/p><p><sup>6<\/sup> I did not have the opportunity to engage with Kempadoo\u2019s most recent work in time for the writing of this essay, but I am looking forward to engaging with it.<\/p><p><sup>7<\/sup> Marion Arnold and Marsha Meskimmon, \u2018Making Oneself at Home\u2019, <em>Third Text<\/em> (29: 4-5): 256-265,\u00a0DOI:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi-org.libproxy.temple.edu\/10.1080\/09528822.2016.1155327\">10.1080\/09528822.2016.1155327<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-45c76ce elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"45c76ce\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b742f95\" data-id=\"b742f95\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c9247c7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"c9247c7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">multiple and One<\/h3>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b5450a8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b5450a8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>In my afterword to <em>Productive Failure<\/em>, I began to muse on how my entire book was about \u2018a constant reassessment of belongingness\u2019. I wrote that the \u2018need or longing to belong is powerful but to what one belongs is best thought of as \u201cmultiple and One\u201d per \u00c9douard Glissant.\u2019<sup>8<\/sup> For him, the geological formation of the archipelago\u2014a series or chain of islands scattered across a body of water\u2014became a\u00a0potent analogy for conceptualising identity: each island is autonomous while still part of the larger group of islands. Glissant believed creolisation and the archipelago went hand in hand. As a body of thought, creolisation is connected to the unequal power relations and violent history of the Caribbean in which colonialists lived in a shared space with slaves, indentured servants, and their descendants. In her book <em>Creole in the Archive: Imagery, Presence and the Location of the Caribbean Figure<\/em><em>, <\/em>Kempadoo powerfully conceptualises a \u2018creole archive as a central creative and primarily visual prism through which to explore the image, presence, location and representation of the Caribbean figure\u2019, a term she uses to conjure a \u2018metaphorical presence of subjectivities (which at times may be considered ghostly), associated with the Caribbean and more specifically Trinidad.\u2019<sup>9<\/sup><\/p><p>Glissant believed that creolisation could be applied to thinking outside of the Caribbean. For instance, in a grand and poetic gesture, he applied what he refers to as \u2018archipelagic thinking\u2019 to the world, which he writes is \u2018becoming an archipelago and creolising\u2019.<sup>10<\/sup> If we consider creolisation as a process that results in continuous entanglement and constant renewal, then I argue that each point of renewal is not a moment of hybridisation but instead connected to active home-making that cannot be traced back to discrete components. Therefore, I cannot be reduced to roots, routes, or queerness. Instead, I am building a home wherever I go: indeed, the title of the exhibition, \u2018The World that Belongs to Us\u2019, implies as much.<sup>11<\/sup><\/p><p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\"><\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-ccd9a3d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"ccd9a3d\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-89dce85\" data-id=\"89dce85\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-086a109 elementor-widget elementor-widget-toggle\" data-id=\"086a109\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"toggle.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle\" role=\"tablist\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-8821\" class=\"elementor-tab-title\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-8821\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon elementor-toggle-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-closed\"><i class=\"fas fa-caret-right\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened\"><i class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened fas fa-caret-up\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"\" class=\"elementor-toggle-title\">View footnotes<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-8821\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-8821\"><p><sup>8<\/sup> Patel, <em>Productive Failure, <\/em>211 (both quotes).<\/p><p><sup>9<\/sup> Roshini Kempadoo, <em>Creole in the Archive: Imagery, Presence and the Location of the Caribbean Figure<\/em>, (London: Rowman &amp; Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, 2016). Accessed November 9, 2023. ProQuest Ebook Central.<\/p><p><sup>10<\/sup> \u00c9douard Glissant, <em>Trait\u00e9 Du Toute-Monde<\/em> (Paris: Gallimard, 1997), 193-94.<\/p><p><sup>11<\/sup> Mimi Sheller would refer to this as \u2018achieved indigeneity\u2019. She writes, \u2018Creolization (becoming Creole) can therefore be understood as a process of achieving an indigenous status of belonging to a locale through the migration and recombination of diverse elements that have been loosed from previous attachments and have reattached themselves to a new place of belonging\u2019. See Mimi Sheller, <em>Consuming the Caribbean: From Arawaks to Zombies <\/em>(London; New York: Routledge, 2003), 182.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-f5ffac5 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"f5ffac5\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a5f7da6\" data-id=\"a5f7da6\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-64e82a6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"64e82a6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"> building networks and queer Asian worlding<\/h3>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-25e097c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"25e097c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>TWTBTU is as much about homemaking as it is an example <em>par excellence<\/em> of networks of friendships and connections across geographies. I want to share here a bit about my new book project and how it, too, is indebted to such networks and by extension the building of bridges to instantiate queer Asian worlding. Indeed, one chapter focused on queer Asian voguing material culture across nations began to coalesce partly because of the invitation to write this essay. To explain, my first instinct in researching was to reconnect with my friend Jaheda Choudhry, a Muslim and lesbian-identified artist who grew up and lives in northwest England.\u00a0 I co-produced an exhibition with Choudhry, \u2018Mixing It Up: Queering Curry Mile and Currying Canal Street,\u2019 in the Autumn of 2007. Created by Manchester-based art and music collectives based on my conception of using culture to subvert, confuse, or \u2018mix up\u2019 the production of a rationalized Manchester \u2013 and thereby (I hoped) potentially shift expectations about the people generally found in Curry Mile, known for its many South Asian restaurants, and the Gay Village, so named for its many queer restaurants and clubs\u00a0 \u2013 the public art projects I commissioned for \u2018Mixing It Up\u2019 took place in these two areas of the city. It had been a decade since I had spoken with Choudhry. When I got a hold of her, she explained she now works as a dresser for the voguing ball scene in Manchester and is directly involved in House of Spice. Houses are kinship structures outside of bloodlines, and voguing is an identity-affirming practice and can be traced back to drag ballroom culture.<\/p><p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\"><\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-43cb86c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"43cb86c\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a8672b0\" data-id=\"a8672b0\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-42ace55 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"42ace55\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"982\" src=\"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2-Postcard-for-Mixing-It-Up-project-.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2-Postcard-for-Mixing-It-Up-project-.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2-Postcard-for-Mixing-It-Up-project--300x144.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2-Postcard-for-Mixing-It-Up-project--1024x491.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2-Postcard-for-Mixing-It-Up-project--768x368.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2-Postcard-for-Mixing-It-Up-project--1536x737.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2-Postcard-for-Mixing-It-Up-project--1200x575.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2-Postcard-for-Mixing-It-Up-project--1980x949.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2885258 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2885258\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Postcard (back) for exhibition <em>Mixing It Up:<\/em> <em>Queering Curry Mile and Currying Canal Street<\/em>, Manchester, 2007, with a schedule of events<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-974359e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"974359e\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4568809\" data-id=\"4568809\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-03b451a elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"03b451a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1481\" src=\"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/5-Sphere-wallpaper-scaled.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/5-Sphere-wallpaper-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/5-Sphere-wallpaper-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/5-Sphere-wallpaper-1024x592.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/5-Sphere-wallpaper-768x444.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/5-Sphere-wallpaper-1536x888.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/5-Sphere-wallpaper-2048x1184.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/5-Sphere-wallpaper-1200x694.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/5-Sphere-wallpaper-1980x1145.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-249e18c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"249e18c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Sphere, <em>Untitled <\/em>(wall mural), Cornerhouse, Manchester, England, September to November 2007. Commissioned for the exhibition <em>Mixing It Up:<\/em> <em>Queering Curry Mile and Currying Canal Street<\/em>, 2007<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-a10bdc0 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"a10bdc0\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-9162c66\" data-id=\"9162c66\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-710cdb2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"710cdb2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>Ballroom culture has since reached many corners of the world, including East Asia. Curator and friend Abby Chen, with whom I have collaborated on a queer Chinese feminist exhibition that included voguing, has invited me to speak at a symposium on islands and archipelagos connected to her curation of Taiwan\u2019s pavilion at the next Venice Biennial. The \u2018tongzhi\u2019 voguing community of Taipei has been characterized as \u2018beyond doubt the major embryo for voguing in Asia, which nourished the seeds and spread them around\u2019 by the cultural critic Quilla Chau in the online magazine <em>Lifted <\/em>(2022). The term <em>tongzhi<\/em> (\u540c\u5fd7, comrade, or LGBTQ people) was first used in Hong Kong but was quickly appropriated by Taiwanese academics to rebrand the gay community to align with socially accepted standards to gain mainstream approval.<\/p><p>Finally, last summer, art historian and friend Przemys\u0142aw Stro\u017cek in Poland informed me of a fascinating exhibition of the clothes of Andy Nguyen (1963-2018), a Polish drag queen of Vietnamese origin, in Warsaw, Poland. I spent several months living in Poland in 2015 and 2016, exploring transnational approaches to LGBT*Q artistic practices there. The Law and Justice (PiS) Party took over when I was there. During their first year in power in 2015, the new government immediately began xenophobic moves such as staunchly refusing to comply with European Union quotas for refugees, primarily from Syria and other conflict areas. At the same time, Poland has increasingly become visibly more homophobic. At one point, over one-third of Poland was deemed an \u2018LGBT-free zone\u2019.<sup>12<\/sup><a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\"><\/a> Despite the above, Poland becomes a site that provides a space for a drag queen of Vietnamese descent to be admired, loved, and accepted as Polish.<\/p><p>What I want to emphasise is that the possibility of an international investigation of queer Asian-ness through material culture is routed through my personal, shared, embodied connection to a web or network of queer familial relationships with a wide-ranging group of curators, artists, and friends.TWTBTU is itself a manifestation of the kind of kinship I describe above.<\/p><p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\"><\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-436d467 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"436d467\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-018a2ec\" data-id=\"018a2ec\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-17bf6aa elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"17bf6aa\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1196\" height=\"1067\" src=\"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/7-Kim-Lee_-Queen-of-Warsaw.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/7-Kim-Lee_-Queen-of-Warsaw.jpg 1196w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/7-Kim-Lee_-Queen-of-Warsaw-300x268.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/7-Kim-Lee_-Queen-of-Warsaw-1024x914.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/7-Kim-Lee_-Queen-of-Warsaw-768x685.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1196px) 100vw, 1196px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-be092d5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"be092d5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Installation images of exhibition <em>Kim Lee: Queen of Warsaw<\/em>, Wola Museum, Warsaw, 2023 Photos by Marcin Sieczka \u00a9 Muzeum Warszawy<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7303d9a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"7303d9a\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a852f46\" data-id=\"a852f46\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-3e1e1dc elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"3e1e1dc\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-f8998ed\" data-id=\"f8998ed\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-aab86ad elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"aab86ad\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"986\" height=\"1416\" src=\"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/9-Kim-Lee_-Queen-of-Warsaw.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/9-Kim-Lee_-Queen-of-Warsaw.jpg 986w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/9-Kim-Lee_-Queen-of-Warsaw-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/9-Kim-Lee_-Queen-of-Warsaw-713x1024.jpg 713w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/9-Kim-Lee_-Queen-of-Warsaw-768x1103.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 986px) 100vw, 986px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-e6c7396\" data-id=\"e6c7396\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8464919 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"8464919\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1040\" height=\"1600\" src=\"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/8-Kim-Lee_-Queen-of-Warsaw.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/8-Kim-Lee_-Queen-of-Warsaw.jpg 1040w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/8-Kim-Lee_-Queen-of-Warsaw-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/8-Kim-Lee_-Queen-of-Warsaw-666x1024.jpg 666w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/8-Kim-Lee_-Queen-of-Warsaw-768x1182.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/8-Kim-Lee_-Queen-of-Warsaw-998x1536.jpg 998w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1040px) 100vw, 1040px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a220398 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a220398\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Installation images of exhibition <em>Kim Lee: Queen of Warsaw<\/em>, Wola Museum, Warsaw, 2023 Photos by Marcin Sieczka \u00a9 Muzeum Warszawy<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-93a02e2 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"93a02e2\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-351d296\" data-id=\"351d296\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b96fc83 elementor-widget elementor-widget-toggle\" data-id=\"b96fc83\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"toggle.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle\" role=\"tablist\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-1941\" class=\"elementor-tab-title\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-1941\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon elementor-toggle-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-closed\"><i class=\"fas fa-caret-right\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened\"><i class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened fas fa-caret-up\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"\" class=\"elementor-toggle-title\">View footnotes<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-1941\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-1941\"><p><sup>12<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/interactive\/2020\/10\/world\/lgbt-free-poland-intl-scli-cnnphotos\/\">Rob Picheta, \u2018\u201cYou don\u2019t belong here\u201d: In Poland\u2019s \u201cLGBT-free zones,\u201d existing is an act of defiance,\u2019 CNN.com, October 2020.\u00a0<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-98a1acc elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"98a1acc\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-82e15b8\" data-id=\"82e15b8\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-848b516 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"848b516\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">shall and shoal: a creolizing moment with Sa\u2019dia Rehman <\/h3>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7ffb70c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7ffb70c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>I want to conclude by returning to the context of the exhibition. Coincidentally, one of the artists in the show, Sa\u2019dia Rehman, was taking part in a residency in Philadelphia, where I currently live. We have been trying to meet for some time. First, the pandemic got in the way, and then our schedules never seemed to align. When I finally sat down with them at a coffee shop in the city centre, it was Monday, October 9. It was two days after the horrific massacre of Israeli citizens by Hamas but before the brutal bombing campaigns of Gaza had begun.\u00a0 Like many, I was anxious and feeling a mix of emotions. But when I saw Sa\u2019dia, my anxiety started to wane. I felt very much at home with them despite having never met. While sipping our coffee, we talked about many things, including what was happening in Israel and Palestine.<\/p><p>One memory that sticks out is a sketch they showed me of the work they planned to bring to fruition at The New Art Gallery Walsall. It included representations of a fruit that Sa\u2019dia would explain were mangoes. They explained that their father fondly recalled the plethora of mango trees that were part of the village&#8217;s landscape that the creation of the Tarbela Dam has since erased. It was a wonderful memory for them amid a general sense of intergenerational trauma. When they began speaking of mangoes, my mind went to living in Florida in the 1980s when my family visited my dad\u2019s cousin\u2019s family in Fort Pierce. My uncle took us to a farm where we procured fresh mangoes. I loved the possibility of Sa\u2019dia\u2019s work taking me to this memory \u2013 something that they, of course, could never have imagined.<sup>13<\/sup> The above was a creolising moment of homemaking, engendered by a mere sketch of a work that had not been realized yet. It also made me empathise more easily with a history I knew little about: Sa\u2019dia\u2019s father\u2019s home in Khar Kot, near the Indus River in northern Pakistan, was one of around 184 villages destroyed by the dam that displaced more than 100,000 people.<\/p><p>In fact, worth noting is that in their proposal for their site-specific installation, Sa\u2019dia mentions that through conversations with the exhibition curators, they became aware that there is a large Mirpuri Muslim population in the West Midlands that is the direct result of the production of another dam \u2013 the Mangla Dam\u2013 by the Pakistani government and the World Bank in the 1960s.<sup>13<\/sup>\u00a0It is the world\u2019s largest. The bird in flight with packages in their installation at the museum is inspired by drawings from the artist Sabba Khan, who traces her family back to this longer extant place and with whom Sa\u2019dia got to have \u2018jovial conversations\u2019. In my mind, I imagine them both sitting in a coffee shop, too. While they both for sure had very different conversations than what I had with Sa\u2019dia, they similarly forged familial bonds laying the foundation for queer homemaking.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5afaebe elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"5afaebe\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4860531\" data-id=\"4860531\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8bee073 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"8bee073\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/sadia-rehman_and-now-we-must-roam-scaled.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/sadia-rehman_and-now-we-must-roam-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/sadia-rehman_and-now-we-must-roam-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/sadia-rehman_and-now-we-must-roam-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/sadia-rehman_and-now-we-must-roam-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/sadia-rehman_and-now-we-must-roam-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/sadia-rehman_and-now-we-must-roam-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/sadia-rehman_and-now-we-must-roam-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk\/digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/sadia-rehman_and-now-we-must-roam-1980x1320.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cfc5261 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"cfc5261\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p class=\"paragraph\" style=\"margin: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;\">Sa\u2019dia Rehman, <span class=\"normaltextrun\"><i>and now we must roam\u2026, <\/i>2023, site specific installation; blackboard paint, chalk, plaster gauze, ink<\/span><span class=\"eop\">. <\/span><span class=\"normaltextrun\"><span style=\"color: black; background: white;\">With thanks to Greater Columbus Arts Council funding<\/span><\/span><span class=\"eop\"><span style=\"color: black;\">. <\/span>C<\/span><span class=\"normaltextrun\"><span style=\"color: black; background: white;\">ommissioned by The New Art Gallery Walsall<\/span><\/span><span class=\"eop\"><span style=\"color: black;\">\u00a0as part of group exhibition <i>The World that Belongs to Us<\/i>, 24 November 23 \u2013 9 June 24. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d0da773 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"d0da773\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-0ebe2cb\" data-id=\"0ebe2cb\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c42ccae elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c42ccae\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>\u00a0<\/p><p>My point here is that the notion of making oneself at home that, I argue, is woven through <em>The World that Belongs to Us<\/em> entails a shift in our thinking from the notion of an autonomous, transcendent individual who does the \u2018making\u2019 to thinking about the processes by which both the \u2018self\u2019 and the \u2018home\u2019 are materialised. Doing so emphasises intersubjectivity and connections with\/in the world and reminds us that this is a material process, a making from\u00a0<em>here<\/em>, from the residues and sedimented traces of the (often violent) past through which a more ethical future shall unfold: and I believe this is what the show promises us.<\/p><p>I am using the word \u2018shall\u2019 purposefully here. According to the <em>Oxford English Dictionary, <\/em>it connotes \u2018a command, promise, or determination\u2019. Curiously, when I typed \u2018shall\u2019 into the search field, the <em>OED<\/em> also brought up the word \u2018shoal\u2019, which is described as \u2018a variant of shall\u2019. Given the context of Sa\u2019dia\u2019s work, I found this generative: to explain, a shoal is a \u2018place where the water is of little depth\u2019. If dams increase the water level to generate electricity \u2013 and, in their creation, destroy homelands \u2013 then one imagines there is no better metaphoric place to be than a shoal. One could characterise my sentiment as na\u00efve, but I believe that the visual arts and even art historical writing can be powerful for showing us where we have been, where we are, and where we could be. I imagine a time and place where mangoes grow generously and unfettered.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c4784af elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"c4784af\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e4430b9\" data-id=\"e4430b9\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f2bceb3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-toggle\" data-id=\"f2bceb3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"toggle.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle\" role=\"tablist\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-toggle-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-2541\" class=\"elementor-tab-title\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tab\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-2541\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon elementor-toggle-icon-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-closed\"><i class=\"fas fa-caret-right\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened\"><i class=\"elementor-toggle-icon-opened fas fa-caret-up\"><\/i><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"\" class=\"elementor-toggle-title\">View footnotes<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-2541\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-2541\"><p><sup>12<\/sup> Many thanks to Sa\u2019dia for sharing the following article through which I learned so much more about mangoes: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eater.com\/22618349\/pakistani-mangoes-chaunsa-anwar-ratol-buy-usa-whatsapp-shipping-supply-chain\">Ahmed Ali Akbar, \u201cInside the Secretive, Semi-Illicit, High Stakes World of WhatsApp Mango Importing,\u201d <em>Eater<\/em>, August 12, 2021.<\/a> \u00a0(accessed November 19, 2023)<\/p><p><sup>13<\/sup> My thanks to exhibition Aziz Sohail for sharing Sa\u2019dia\u2019s written proposal. And my thanks both to them and the Head of Exhibitions Deborah Robinson for generously inviting me to write this essay and being so patient with me.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-b778f49 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"b778f49\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1c1883c\" data-id=\"1c1883c\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6ad5198 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6ad5198\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Biography<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0ee6b6f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0ee6b6f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alpeshkpatel.com\/\">Alpesh Kantilal Patel<\/a> is an associate professor of global contemporary art history at Temple University\u2019s Tyler School of Art and Architecture and Curator at Large at UrbanGlass, Brooklyn, where they organize exhibitions under the theme: forever becoming: decolonization, materiality, and trans* subjectivity. Their influential work includes <em>Productive failure: Writing queer transnational South Asian art histories<\/em> (2017) and co-edited publications, <em>Storytellers of Art Histories<\/em> (2022) and <em>Curatorial Impacts \u2013 The Futures of Okwui Enwezor<\/em> (2021). They are working on a new monograph, <em>Multiple and One: global queer art histories<\/em>, under contract with Manchester University Press, and the anthology <em>Creole Archive: Jacek Kolasinski<\/em>. With a background in curatorial and administrative roles at institutions like the Whitney Museum and the New Museum in NYC, Patel earned their doctorate from the University of Manchester after graduating from Yale University. They are currently Chair of the College Art Association\u2019s flagship publications <em>Art Journal <\/em>and <em>Art Journal Open<\/em> Editorial Board.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-15f5e0b elementor-widget-divider--separator-type-pattern elementor-widget-divider--no-spacing elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"15f5e0b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\" style=\"--divider-pattern-url: url(&quot;data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns=&#039;http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg&#039; preserveAspectRatio=&#039;xMidYMid meet&#039; overflow=&#039;visible&#039; height=&#039;100%&#039; viewBox=&#039;0 0 126 26&#039; fill=&#039;black&#039; stroke=&#039;none&#039;%3E%3Cpath d=&#039;M3,10.2c2.6,0,2.6,2,2.6,3.2S4.4,16.5,3,16.5s-3-1.4-3-3.2S0.4,10.2,3,10.2z M18.8,10.2c1.7,0,3.2,1.4,3.2,3.2s-1.4,3.2-3.2,3.2c-1.7,0-3.2-1.4-3.2-3.2S17,10.2,18.8,10.2z M34.6,10.2c1.5,0,2.6,1.4,2.6,3.2s-0.5,3.2-1.9,3.2c-1.5,0-3.4-1.4-3.4-3.2S33.1,10.2,34.6,10.2z M50.5,10.2c1.7,0,3.2,1.4,3.2,3.2s-1.4,3.2-3.2,3.2c-1.7,0-3.3-0.9-3.3-2.6S48.7,10.2,50.5,10.2z M66.2,10.2c1.5,0,3.4,1.4,3.4,3.2s-1.9,3.2-3.4,3.2c-1.5,0-2.6-0.4-2.6-2.1S64.8,10.2,66.2,10.2z M82.2,10.2c1.7,0.8,2.6,1.4,2.6,3.2s-0.1,3.2-1.6,3.2c-1.5,0-3.7-1.4-3.7-3.2S80.5,9.4,82.2,10.2zM98.6,10.2c1.5,0,2.6,0.4,2.6,2.1s-1.2,4.2-2.6,4.2c-1.5,0-3.7-0.4-3.7-2.1S97.1,10.2,98.6,10.2z M113.4,10.2c1.2,0,2.2,0.9,2.2,3.2s-0.1,3.2-1.3,3.2s-3.1-1.4-3.1-3.2S112.2,10.2,113.4,10.2z&#039;\/%3E%3C\/svg%3E&quot;);\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-634cacb elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"634cacb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Bibliography<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5dcf769 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5dcf769\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p><u>Publications (select)<\/u><\/p><p>Patel, A. (2017<em>).\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk\/9781784992545\/\"><em>Productive failure: Writing queer transnational South Asian art histories.<\/em><\/a> Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press.<br \/>Patel, A. &amp; Siddiqui, Y., eds. (2022<em>).\u00a0<\/em>Storytellers of Art Histories: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life<em>.<\/em>\u00a0Bristol: Intellect Books<br \/>Patel, A., Davidson, J.C. &amp; Okeke-Agulu, C., eds. (2021). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dukeupress.edu\/okwui-enwezor\">\u2018Curatorial Impacts \u2013 the Futures of Okwui Enwezor\u2019<\/a>.\u00a0<em>Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art<\/em>\u00a048(1).\u00a0<\/p><p><u>Articles and Essays (select)<\/u><\/p><p>Patel, A. (2023d) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Decolonizing-Art-History\/Flores-Martin-Black\/p\/book\/9780367714819\">\u2018Reflecting on Whiteness in Recent Contemporary Artwork Exploring Transnational Poland\u2019<\/a>, Pp. 363-373 in Tatiana Flores, Florencia San Martin and Charlene Villase\u00f1or Black (eds.).\u00a0<em>The Routledge Companion to Decolonizing Art History<\/em>. London: Routledge.<br \/>Patel, A. (2023c) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiley.com\/en-ie\/A+Companion+to+Contemporary+Art+in+a+Global+Framework-p-9781119841807\">\u2018Post\/Anti\/Neo\/De-Colonial Theory and Visual Analysis\u2019<\/a>. Pp. 311-326 in Amelia Jones and Jane Chin Davidson (eds.).\u00a0<em>A Companion to Contemporary Art in a Global Framework<\/em>. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell.<br \/>Patel, A. (2023b) <a href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5bbc315cd7819e4dd820e4bd\/t\/645fe8d90aea2d3a11ffbe21\/1684007130227\/Self+pamphlet-complete+1.pdf\">\u2018Queer and Trans\/Joy Worlding\u2019<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5bbc315cd7819e4dd820e4bd\/t\/645fe91abe55365c4cbac92d\/1684007195351\/Self+pamphlet-complete_Part2.pdf\">\u2018Disorderly Encounters and Irregular Connections: Towards Cruising\u2019<\/a>. For the exhibition <em>Self<\/em>, Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA.<br \/>Patel, A. (2023a) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artforum.com\/print\/reviews\/202304\/didier-william-90289\">\u201cDidier William at the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0<em>Artforum<\/em>\u00a061(8), 171.<br \/>Patel, A. 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