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Queer Quantum Quest explores the becoming of an identity as a dynamic and multilayered process. It is composed of solid foundations, fluid transitions, and transformative agency. The project is structured around three conceptual phases: Queer as solid, Quantum as liquid, and Quest as gaseous. These phases reflect a temporal and existential logic of becoming, guiding the development of identity from inherited structures through transitional ambiguity toward self-determined futures.

The work investigates how identity is shaped by personal history, media influence, consumer culture, family background, and social expectations. It brings together theoretical reflection and material exploration through a series of installations and performative actions, embracing fragmentation, contradiction, and emotional complexity as constitutive aspects of becoming.

One of the central pieces is RGB Walls, an interactive archival installation that uses the digital primary colors red, green, and blue to organize objects of personal and cultural desire. The installation combines analog memories with algorithmic aesthetics, illustrating how individual longing is influenced by digital environments. Viewers are invited to participate by exchanging objects, which opens a space for shared authorship and challenges the idea of a fixed system of value. The work resists clean resolution; the archive is porous and unstable, revealing how desire is tangled in both private memory and collective excess.

Newfangled began as a private exploration of transformation, clothing, and self-determination within the intimacy of a safe space. Through experimentation with garments and performative self-staging, the work initially unfolded in a protected environment. Over time, it expanded into public space. This transition marked a shift from internal reflection to public negotiation, showing how identity is continually formed in dialogue with external gazes, social norms, and moments of rupture.

Together, these works exemplify the conceptual core of Queer Quantum Quest. The project presents identity not as a fixed entity but as an evolving, sometimes messy process. It connects personal experience with broader cultural structures and invites critical engagement with the forces that shape who we become.

Text: Genesis Kahveci

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