CRUISING QUEERS WORKSHOP+PERFORMANCE
by Sára Iványi, Katinka van Gorkum and Eddie Azulay
A Queer archive activation through writing, crafting and collective reading - hosted by KIOSK Rotterdam in 2024, and Porn Film Festival Amsterdam in 2025.
Sára Iványi, Katinka van Gorkum and Eddie Azulay are three writer~artists who became acquainted via the same queer dating app. Our collaboration for this workshop stems from our shared interest in language, and how reading between the lines and expressing oneself and one’s fantasies freely to strangers can become an interpersonal site for desire and sexuality - a site for cruising.
We invite participants to get creative with erotic queer archive material to craft smutty personal-ads on paper. Guided by Sára and Katinka, we will read together, write together, share fantasies, markers and glue sticks. Everyone can bring a word or a thing that they want to use in their personal ad – a talisman that speaks to their sexuality or desire. The aim is to create a ‘cruising wall’ that will display the finished personal ads on site where visitors can interact with them. Guided by Eddie, the second part of the workshop is an intimate collective reading session of an excerpt from a text written by Liz Rosenfeld.
