Tobias Allen

I AM CONCERNED WITH CONJURING OFTEN DISAVOWED QUEER NEGATIVITIES, INTENSITIES OF EXPERIENCE AND CONFRONTING EXTREME OR DIFFICULT EMOTIONALITY. THIS IS ENACTED THROUGH PERFORMANCE, IMAGE MAKING AND SOUND, WHERE PERFORMANCE IS BOTH A FORM AND A METHODOLOGY THAT SHAPES MY WORK.

OPERATING OUT OF A HOMOPESSIMISTIC FRAMEWORK, I AM CONSUMED BY THE PERMEABLE AND QUEER BODY, PERSISTING EXPERIENCES OF DEATH, POETIC TEXT AND LEGAL STRUCTURE AS INSTRUCTION FOR GESTURE AND CONTINUED HISTORIES OF HIV THAT SHAPE QUEER CULTURE, LOOKING FROM EXPERIENCE WITHIN A SERODISCORDANT RELATIONSHIP.