8. Sites Queer Exhibition
A project of Regner Ramos, Ph.D
SJ/ 2017
From Sites Queer
Queer spaces in San Juan are often ephimeral, appropriating heteronormative public spaces and queering them through short-term, non-straight spatial practices, artistic performances, nightime activities, and cultural events. The appropiation of urban spaces by queer Puerto Ricans carries on a legacy which dates back to the 1960s, when the first queer urban circuits where identified and documented—at times illicitly—to fulfill a series of needs: visibility, rights, work, sociability, desire, and sex.
The show included selection of sites materialized as architectural models and a series of map drawings creating a spatial cartography of ephimeral queer spaces. My assistance involved the production of these models and preparations for the exhibition.
