Blueprinting Diverging Cruising
The workshop Blueprinting Diverging Cruising explores what cruising means for trans and non-normative bodies, both in the urbanist context of Amsterdam and in digital spaces. Through a series of different techniques ranging from anonymity, self-censorship, and collective collaging, we will blur lines between fantasy and reality as unreliable narrators to explore codification of data and record real and imagined cruised experiences. Together, we will craft a map of cruising fantasies, experiences, and desires, projecting the ideal space unto what is offered to us.
Michelangelo is an Italian visual artist and writer whose practice dwells in experimental publishing and printmaking. His work explores radical queer and neurodivergent perspectives. He focuses on topics of hegemonic violence and counter-violence, alternative spaces, and hidden histories. Through techniques of fragmentation and outspoken visuals, he perverts social analysis with a queer lens, emphasizing concepts of failure and resistance.