If Not, Clouds

Abstract

Video art project by queer new gothic artist Morris Fox. Fox is an Interdisciplinary Humanities PhD candidate at Concordia U, situated in Tiohtiá:ke-Mooniyang-Montréal. He gratefully acknowledges the Kanien’kehá:ka from Kahnawake and Kanehsatà:ke who continue to care for the unceded land on which he resides. Fox’s interdisciplinary practice tongues and cruises the haunted house for feelings of community. In his practice, words and materials become an enmeshing net that forms a necropolis: a cemetery of desire. His work interconnects self-performance, digital video, VR environments, self fashioning, eco-poetry and textiles (including chainmaille) with material and queer historiographic research—rubbing against the ruins of memory and the haunted shimmering of an apocalyptic imaginary.