rehearsal 

 Untitled, from the series "Garden of Eros," 2017

​The act of storytelling in an aphoristic way it to honour the “ephemeral” nature of queer desires and the encounters that occurred on the bench of a cruising park in India.  Encounters that had created a temporal space between bodies. It is this listening with intimacy and care that is crucial for this act of storytelling. In this spirit of queerness, I maintain my closeness to a sideway methodology, specifically, to consider the Kothi’s socio-political location. It is a movement not just once, but again and again, only after this repetition can one create a more empathetic encounter. This “rehearsal,” by which I am implying the act to re-hear and re-listen and if needed, with an improvisation. So that in this process of telling-stories one finds a “political-becoming” what Muñoz considered as a crucial imagining of a queer future.  Hence, the title of this inquiry is a process, the “going sideways” is a queer act.