Saturday, July 12th, 6:30 pm
It’s difficult to pinpoint the origins of cruising. While the term was used by men seeking casual encounters with other men in the parks and streets of New York City as early as the 1920s, historical records show the practice is much older. Cruising has existed for as long as anyone outside the dominant sex and gender systems has sought sexual encounters outside of sanctioned norms.
Join us in the setting of Álvaro Urbano’s exhibition September and the Lions of for the Berlin launch of Crossings: Creative Ecologies of Cruising by João Florêncio and Liz Rosenfeld, a creative dialogue between a queer artist and a queer academic reminiscing about and thinking with their cruising experiences and taking queer sex practices and cultures seriously as ways of knowing and world-making. The result is an erotic hybrid form hovering between scholarship and avant-garde experimentation, between critical manifesto and sex memoir.
The event will include screening of short films by Liz Rosenfeld, readings by the authors, followed by Q&A. Books will be available for purchase and signing.
João Florêncio is professor of gender studies and chair of sex media and sex cultures at Linköping University, Sweden. He is the author of Bareback Porn, Porous Masculinities, Queer Futures: The Ethics of Becoming-Pig.
Liz Rosenfeld is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator. Born in New York City, they are based in London and Berlin.
Book Presentation of Crossings - Creative Ecologies of Cruising is written by João Florêncio and Liz Rosenfeld and published by Rutgers University Press.