EXHIBITION

The t-shirt has a storied history in acts of Queer resistance and activism. The Australian Queer Archives have just recently cataloged their 1000th t-shirt in their collection.

This exhibition of t-shirts draws from the Australian Queer Archives (AQuA) to reimagine and recontextualize them, fashioning new layers of meaning by drawing through stories from the margins through a queer diasporic Asian intersectional lens.

This exhibition of works forms a part of a broader doctorial project titled ‘All Tee, No Shade’. The project explores norm-critical and intersectional approaches that use the t-shirt to disrupt subjectivities that contribute to the marginalization and discrimination of the queer Asian diaspora.

The project employs ‘subtle’ traits as a condition of the (east) Asian diasporic, and queer, experience to reveal how race and sexuality might be performed and expressed through fashion production. Using an autoethnographic approach, the project aims to contribute to broader discourses that decentralize dominant narratives in fashion practice.

Presented as part of the PayPal Melbourne Fashion Festival’s Fashion Culture Program 2023

3 - 11 March 2023

https://melbournefashionfestival.com.au/2023-event/exhibition-all-tee-all-shade

POSTPONED - new dates TBC