Rosie Hastings

I hope to dismantle the mythologies of "straightening devices", pushing gender perception into a queerzone where masculinity is no longer anchored in the male body.

Starfish, lesbian sex, queer sociability, anal politics, gender hack, magic and poor readings of continental philosophy have allowed me to develop a material practice which foregrounds pleasure and desire as a methodology.

Recent works emerge from imagining the construction and standardisation of binary gender as a pervasive technology of social power. Perhaps we can understand these technologies as Straightening devices: devices that enforce compulsory heterosexuality and hetro-linear narratives into the collective psyche.

By replicating and disrupting these technologies in my work I hope to dismantle their mythologies, pushing gender perception into a queerzone where masculinity is no longer anchored in the male body and the anus reveals its own politically radical potential.