I want to use digital jacquard weaving to frame a conversation about how queer ideas of masculinity and the heteronormative tradition of “Heroes” in pop culture live in opposition to each other. The gap between these two, underlines the ambivalent nature of trying to represent the queer within the heteronormative reality of tradition.
Does the wish to be represented ultimately lead to assimilation into hetero-patriarchy instead of radically deconstructing it?
Can tradition even function as something subversive rather than conservative?
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Håvard Cornelius Schnitler Kranstad