PAST COURSES 2021-2023
Queer Extension launched in 2021 with support from Arts Council England and its participants. The curatorial theme for 2021: QUEER NOW.
In November 2023 a short launch of our Nightlife course an over two months.
From 2024, with funding from Arts Council England, two new iterations of Queer Extension will develop across two themes.
October 2024 - February 2025 - QUEER PRODUCTION
June 2025 - November 2024 - QUEER LETTERS
TREIS
Facilitator: Season Butler
Type: Online & Correspondence
Sessions: 3rd Sunday, March-May
2021, Queer Now
TREIS is an opportunity to engage with the artist Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt’s work, contexts, inspirations, related practices and other material we’re inspired to share. Following each meeting, members will make work (postcard or standard letter size) to distribute by post to the rest of the group.
#text #art #correspondence
*registration for this module is currently full and accepting interested parties to note their desire to join via a wait-list.
IN A QUIET QUEERING
Facilitator: Luke Pell
Type: Online & Correspondence
Sessions: Participants Pace, March
2021, Queer Now
In this module Scotland based maker Luke Pell offers a series of tactile scores, accompanying readings and soft sharing that invites folx to find, map and tune to old/new queer spaces and approaches for some quieter, poetic ways of being.
#slow #somatic #poetry
*registration for this module is currently full and accepting interested parties to note their desire to join via a wait-list.
QUEER CORRALLING & COMFORTING
Facilitator: Brian Lobel
Type: Online
Sessions: 3x Weekly, March
2021, Queer Now
This Module is for those who have experience leading and coordinating rites and ceremonies for and with queer people. This is not an Intro to Queer Celebrations and Ceremonies, but a reflective and reflexive space for those already in the field to draw on past experience and build towards making sustainable practices, resources and futures.
#celebrancy #ritual #ceremony
QUEER SELF-FASHIONING
Facilitator: Bourgeoisie
Type: Online & Correspondence
Sessions: 1 Month, 2x online, March
2021, Queer Now
In this module we will be going through a design process, with the focus on creating a garment that explores the synthesis and conceptualisation of armor / self-preservation / PPE and queer nightlife. We will take a few noted films as our initial inspiration and then delve into the research : self-preservation, armor, self-expression through nightlife, and MORE.
#fashion #armor #psychogeography
SLIPPERY SUBSTANCES:
Microdosing queer material
Facilitator: Liz Rosenfeld
Type: Correspondence
Sessions: Over 4 weeks, March
2021, Queer Now
Microdosing is the practice of consuming very low, sub- doses of a specific substance, generally a recreational or (un)prescribed pharmaceutical drug, with the intention of understanding how a very low dose can affect and slightly shift one's mood, perspective, and material. This correspondence course will entail a creative exchange through whatever medium one chooses between 10 participants.
#microdosing #queer #exchange
*registration for this module is currently full and accepting interested parties to note their desire to join via a wait-list.
DALI’S PARANOIAC
CRITICAL PIZZA
Facilitator: Owen G Parry
Type: Online
Sessions: 2 Days, 7 hours, March
2021, Queer Now
Dali’s Paranoiac Critical Pizza is an international business meeting for a cabal of antifascist art witches, queer automationists, eco-conspirators and you! Let’s conspire to “breath together” for the first time at a secret and highly convenient utopia [on zoom]. We will explore how art’s potential to construct new logics, combined with its fashionable appropriation by the powers of commerce, puts art in a good position to influence and queer reality against all totalising narratives. Get your best tin foil hat on!
#conspiracy #queerspiracy #antifascist #pizza
SONIC SPECTRAL SUMMONING
Facilitator: Johanna Linsley
Type: Correspondence
Sessions: March, over 3 weeks
2021, Queer Now
This module is aimed at equipping participants with the tools necessary to identify, isolate and summon your own ghostly spectre from the acoustic atmosphere of your choice. Every ring tone, white noise machine, laptop fan or refrigerator buzz has the potential to contain a latent haunting. Every inside joke, gossip circuit and open secret might, if you listen the right way, have the capacity to raise the dead. Do you have what it takes to break open the world as you currently know it?
#ghosts #email #sound
queer big brother in ur bedroom but dance
Facilitator: illyr
Type: Online & Correspondence
Sessions: 3, starting 6 March
2021, Queer Now
This module explores the connection queerness can enable through shared movement practice.
It takes the form of a facilitated exploration between all participants of identity and movement. We will ask: what is (your) queerness? How do you move (queerly)? and permutations of these questions as they leak into auto-choregraphic potential.
#film #autobiography #queerchoreography
INTRO TO CLUB CULTURAL STUDIES: QUEER CONTEXTS
Facilitator: Justin Hunt
Type: Online & Correspondence
Sessions: Two options
April Session (4x Sunday afternoons) - Full
June Session (4x Sunday evenings) - Open
2021, Queer Now
This module introduces Club and Nightlife Studies in its academic context. Taking queerness and isolation as a binocular lens, we will consider the dual economy of club cultures; the affective economy of queer nightlife communities and the cash economy at labor in our parties. This is a seminar style module where participants are facilitated in their inquiry into common shared texts and their lived experience.
#queernightlife #clubculture #isolation
This course initially ran in April 2021 and June 2021.
An updated version ran in November 2023.