Book launch
Breaking Free: Queer Temporality and Collaborative Art
19:00 - 21:00
Free
English, French
To mark the launch of Lieven De Boeck’s Breaking Free, the artist discusses with curator Antony Hudek some of the topics in the book, including the transmission of queer legacies and the role of textile and colour in the making-visible of queer identities. Part of LDB+’s broader artistic research project on “self-exclusion”, Breaking Free draws on art historical research and fashion pattern books to propose new ways of collectivising queer empowerment.
Breaking Free: Queer Temporality and Collaborative Art. A guide to The Radical Power of Self-Exclusion by LDB+ Lieven De Boeck
Available at 28€
This guide offers manuals to stitch, paint and identify appropriate wear, a script to perform and stimulating ideas and experiences.
Breaking Free: Queer Temporality and Collaborative Art is a celebration of collective creativity and self-expression, offering a dynamic fusion of artistic tools to explore and to queer identity. Inspired by Brazilian
artist Hélio Oiticica and brought to life by queer artist LDB+ (Lieven De Boeck), this manual blends academic insight, artistic practice, and lived experiences.
Through stitching, painting, and performing, this book guides and invites participants to engage in collaborative artmaking while challenging traditional norms. Highlighting the strength of community, the bookoffers open-source tools, ideas for creating, activating, and experiencing art in dynamic and transformative ways.
Breaking Free also invited two writers to engage with the project: Bradley Wester, who documented the creation and activation of the project in Sarasota and Miami, and Antony Hudek, who placed LDB+’s new work within the context of contemporary art.
Graphic design by Freek Lomme icw Lieven De Boeck
Project coordinator Kurt Vanbelleghem icw Freek Lomme
Book photography by Annette Behrens