Current Projects
Sometimes scandalous, sometimes utopian, and sometimes the simple result of circumstance or opportunity, queer history hides in plain sight throughout the living tradition of Anglo-American social folk dance.
Dancing Queer History
Since 2011, I’ve been documenting contemporary art that employs the aesthetic of accumulation, exploring the implications of its appeal.
The Aesthetic of accumulation
This list began at a workshop held during CDSS's Pinewoods English Week in 2016. Get in touch to add your own contribution!
I am for dancing that…
Good pictures are a strong weapon
From the publisher: “A fundamental dilemma exists in documentary photography: can White artists successfully portray Indigenous lives and communities in a manner that neither appropriates nor romanticizes them? With an attentive and sensitive eye, Louise Siddons examines lesbian photographer Laura Gilpin’s classic 1968 book The Enduring Navaho to illuminate the intersectional politics of photography, Navajo sovereignty, and queerness over the course of the twentieth century.”