Queerly Comprehensible
The Nonbinary Art of Kris Grey
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4520201 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chris Straayer (0000-0002-4783-0605, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 178-193 |
| Publication date | 2023-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women's studies quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0732-1562 • E-ISSN: 1934-1520 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/wsq.2023.a910077 |
| OpenAlex | W4387860784 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This essay argues that nonbinary artist Kris Grey deploys a genderqueer aesthetic to undo taxonomy. Their ceramic sculpture and performance art cross and diffuse binaries through reversals, implosions, conversations, and invitations. I contextualize Grey's art within the work of other contemporary artists who have creatively investigated and engineered gender, sex, and sexuality. Following Vittorio Gallese, I argue that Grey's embodied images haptically share nonbinary physicality with audiences. Through centrifugal and centripetal reconfigurations, they make new experiences visible, imaginable, and available. Following Caroline Walker Bynum, I argue that by queerly foregrounding the nonbinary underpinning of a master aesthetic discourse, Grey shows the seemingly unfamiliar nonbinary body to be affectively comprehensible
Adornment · Aesthetics · Art · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Foregrounding · Literature · Sculpture · Sociology · Underpinning · Undo · Visual arts · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Computer Science · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Engineering · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |