To read about specific panelists, click on the title of the panel you seek in the below list, or continue scrolling to read about all panelists. Textile Traditions. Un disciplining the Fashioned Body. Beyond the Binary. Workshop Facilitators. Continental Histories. Ripple: A Wearable Environment is an experimental large-scale textile installation by Deanna Armenti that explores subspace.
However, since most submissives experience subspace in a multitude of ways, the liminal temporality of subspace has remained a vague and generalized phenomenon. Experimental practice-based research techniques are utilized to dive deeper into subspace by exploring the flow of subspace and fetish items as talismanic sacred objects through an embodied lens. The intention is not to make queer kink and fetish fashion more palatable, but rather to create an embodied wearable that speaks more genuinely to the emotional and internal experience of submissive kinksters.
She is currently a guest editor for issue 14 of Feral Feminisms, Feminist Forms of Submission in which her article, Ripple: a Wearable Environment , is currently under review. She seeks to combat the pathologization and stigmatization of the queer kink community through demystifying the lifestyle. Her creation of accessible material installations is an embodied practice which invites folks to engage with the community.
Deanna's research focuses on queer temporalities, seeking liminal spaces and 'slices in time' as a means of conveying the non-linear spectrum of queerness. She also explores the community's use of signalling as semiotics, investigating alternate forms of communication such as sign-based discourse. Over time, the repetition of certain facial expressions results in worry lines. Worry Lines explores the intersections of materiality, costume, performance, and queerness as tools to confront and transform: to unravel narratives embedded in dress, identity, place, and the body.
Through practice-based exploration, they collaborate with objects, materials, and spaces to investigate shared participation in world-building. Their research aims to position queer methodological approaches in visual art practice as emergent sites of queer futurity. There is heavy demand for queer joy representation both in and out of academia. Dear Diary, This is My Gender Today is an active reimagining of approaches to gender discourse through embodied relationships to fashion via scrapbooks and zines.
