Quoted & Noted
Breaking Free. Queer Temporality and Collaborative Art
Quoted & Noted is a column that presents an excerpt of a thought-provoking book, offering insight and context.
LDB+, Bradley Wester, Anthony Hudek, Breaking Free. Queer Temporality and Collaborative Art, Set Margins’ #36, 2025, 108 pp.
A flash of fabric against the skin. A rhythm carried in the body. The Parangolé was never meant to hang still — it was meant to move, to breathe, to blur the lines between art and life. In 2009, Parangolé Capa 21, Xoxoba by Hélio Oiticica was lost in a fire. Only an exhibition copy, resting in the archives of the Melly Institute in Rotterdam, survived. Yet t (…)
