Channeling: An Invocation of Spectral Bodies and Queer Spirits

Queer experimental film and video work that summons the ghosts of the past and the specters of the future.

Channeling is an entryway into the spirit realm and the queer body politic: a program of experimental work that summons the ghosts of the past and the specters of the future. If we imagine the technologies of film and video as occult mediums rather than technological ones, then perhaps we can make spiritual contact with the emotional and physical realities that are often invisible (ghostly) in everyday life. The artists in this program use their bodies and stories as conduits that channel the political and historical dramas that haunt the queer experience: the Aids pandemic (Renwick, DiStefano), the body in transition (Montague), the idealized nuclear family (Peña, Robinson), and the cultural conventions that shape desire and desirability (EMR, Moulton). Curated by Latham Zearfoss and Ethan White.