Jonathon Harris

I have been thinking about distance.
In mileage.
In time.

The point between over there and back here.

-

Do I run towards the past to offer a warning?
Do I run from the past to offer the same?
Or in a misguided attempt to recapture myself?

-

A migration of sorts,
To the best and worst of times.
All dolled up in the cheapest of finery,
With no identity whilst grasping for honesty.


Locating itself within the cultural and societal history of the AIDS epidemic, The Internal Division explores how individual and collective trauma persists and shapes Queer identity through memory and grief. Viewing the epidemic as a rupture in the cultural continuity that fundamentally altered the passing on of Queer knowledge and community. Utilising technology, algorithmic collaboration, and installation, the work interrogates the boundaries between direct experience and memory. Examining how technological mediation can operate as both an individual and community archive, or as a witness that continues to structure Queer consciousness.