L’art queer de ne pas réussir à traduire “L’art queer de ne pas réussir” by Hugo Amenouche
L’art queer de ne pas réussir à traduire “L’art queer de ne pas réussir” is a collection of annexes to the text The Queer Art of Failure written by Jack Halberstam. Halberstam views failure as empowering events that can serve as critiques of capitalist and heteropatriarchal norms.
As the title suggests, I failed to translate this text. However, from this book, which seemed so desirable and yet almost unattainable, I tried to grasp what I could in order to redistribute it into the six objects contained in this folder (including, among other things, a discussion with Léo Love Gentil about the collective dansmalangue, a translation of Chapter 1 of TQAOF, and a SpongeBob Survival Kit). This project experiments with the content of the book itself, putting it to the test in order to imagine it beyond the mystery it holds.
TQAOF was written in 2011, and Jack Halberstam uses a concept he calls “Low Theory”, with which he seeks to analyze popular culture objects to reach a broader audience. The project is almost exclusively composed in Fluxisch Else (distributed by Open Source Publishing) and Adelphe by Eugénie Bidaut (available on the Typothèque Genderfluid by Bye Bye Binary). The two are supported by cameo appearances by a handful of other typefaces.
The project pdf is available via are.na.
