In his 2011 book The Queer Art of Failure, Jack Halberstam writes, “darkness becomes a crucial part of a queer aesthetic…an aesthetics of opacity…an interpretative strategy…as well as a way of being in the world…the queer subject as shadow and shadowed seems to cast the construction of queerness as secondary to the primacy of heterosexual arrangements of gender and relationality, but in fact it comments upon the disruptive potential of shadow worlds.”

Cassils and Blas will each discuss one of their works in relation to the concept of Queer Darkness.