Subcultural Installations [1995] | Queer Archives Polaroid Series | Queer Life Writing 1964 to Now | Australian Artist Paul Andrew
Queer Graffiti -Subcultural Installations [1995]
Queer Graffiti -Subcultural Installations [1995]
Paul Andrew’s large format polaroid series Queer Subcultural Installations is an artwork which documents and recasts examples of graffiti cocreated at Beats. Beats are public places which function as subcultural installations that maintain an enduring status as a central organising point for the gay LGBTQIA+ community across time, and through artworks like these across queer temporalities.
As a graffiti archives, these images depict – and help people to explicitly locate – a transitory site as a meeting place for consensual public encounters and communication between subjects. This archival art initiative also documents the spectre of death that was more commonplace for queer and gay men in the era of HIV AIDs when homophobic violence against non-heteronormative idenifying men excalated in Sydney, Brisbane and other major and regional centres in Australia, and around the globe.
This artwork series comprises eight large format polaroids printed on archival photomedia paper.
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