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Queer Ecologies Research Collective II: 
CREATION / BECOMING / CHAOS
July 29–August 11, 2024



Ecological collapse is a theater of the absurd—how do we play upon its stage? The Queer Ecologies Research Collective (QuERC) will embrace CREATION / BECOMING / CHAOS as a guiding logic, generating a space for embodied and performative research in pursuit of creative entanglement and co-evolution.

This session explored the “performance lecture” and cabaret as critical strategies for queer ecologies, culminating in a live cabaret on August 3rd featuring guest artist and emcee John Jarboe. Dada and drag provided frames of reference as playful and subversive art movements that speak to the power of the absurd, the disorienting, and the fantastical. The QuERC asserts that these affective tools are necessary to the pursuit of a regenerative spirit, and to our ability to intra-relate with concepts such as extinction and apocalypse. 

2024 Participants

Cy X, Wei Wu, Samiha Tasnim, Hermione Spriggs, Julia Simon, Darian Razdar, Liza Pittard, Tyna Ontko, Suzy Lykins, Alex A. Jones, John Jarboe, Sara Hodaie, Jessica Chen, Nicholas di Benedetto



“A Glossary for Queer Ecologies”
Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture
Issue 64: Queering Nature | Summer 2024






Queer Ecologies Research Collective I: 
LAND / BODY / EROS
July 6–12, 2023

QuERC first assembled in July 2023 at the arts residency Mildred’s Lane (Upper Delaware Valley, Pennsylvania) to consider questions such as “What is a research paradigm for queer ecologies?” And “What can collective research processes generate?” The week-long session decomposed hierarchies between traditional academic work and domestic or social practice, with reading discussions, slide lectures, and theoretical roundtables intermixed with pond swimming, cooking meals, and watching fireflies. 

2023  Participants

Cy X, Bang Tran (Red Flower Collective), Darian Razdar, Lee Pivnik (Institute for Queer Ecology), Erin Montanez (Red Flower Collective), Cameron Klavsen, Alex A. Jones, Adjua Gargi Nzgina Greaves, briar coleman, Maurício Chades, Nick Bennett, Pia Bakala, Nicolas Baird (Institute for Queer Ecology)


In 2025, QuERC will host an exhibition in NYC and a third retreat at Mildred’s Lane. For more information about upcoming engagements and ways to get involved, please contact us