ABSTRACT
Every exhibition held at Storefront for Art and Architecture, Queer Space was accompanied by a published newsprint announcing the exhibition, listing the participants, and reproducing curatorial text and individual project manifestos. Even the format of the call, styled as a personal ad, borrows a form that, while not exclusively queer, certainly nods to the alternative modes of communication and dissemination used within queer communities. The lone curatorial text highlights not only the unfocused aim of the exhibition but also the lack of proper terms for the exhibition as it grapples with both the theoretical and social hang-ups of the language necessary to establish a discourse of queer space. The Queer Space project called existing definitions of these terms into question, as well as any relationship between them. The 14 individual projects and their respective manifestos each presented potential ways to define queer space, even if the exhibition itself refused to do so.
