Humberside
This work explores queer futurism in art. Can making and performing be a speculative vision of queer reproduction? Bringing together alternative forms of family and kinship between queer and feminist people and the production of art challenging hegemony. Working with sculpture, performance and AI animation the ‘birthed’ artwork is brought to life. AI generative text responds and guides the work through responsive storytelling.
James Chantry
James Chantry explores art making as a form of queer reproduction. He identifies links between queerness and the supernatural. Transgressive tropes relating to mediumship, whilst working with performance and sculpture are also methods of production. He queers the Lincolnshire Fens and coast, his birthplace, including folklore, supernatural stories, land, body and liminality. His work and research attests that divergent communities could exist and transcend the hegemonic, capitalist norms of family.
He has recently worked collaboratively to produce art that has a tangible life force and its essence affirms alternative family and kinship. His work challenges gender expectations and elucidates theories of queer reproductive and societal futurity. His practice inherently explores queer ecology, making and performing with sculptures that are ‘birthed’ from natural materials and that are returned to the land and coast. Embodying queerness, folktales, supernatural stories and digital media as a form of magic, he uses video and text AI techniques that animate and bring ‘life’ to sculptures and guide performative work.
