The Artist's Way: Kink and Queer Play

Kink as an artist's practice: a structured, consensual, deeply playful way of making meaning with bodies, objects, and roles. This talk reads kink and queer play as adjacent crafts — both rule-bound, both improvisational, both world-building.

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About this session

An artist whose work spans sculpture, performance, and pedagogy, Nayland Blake brings kink into conversation with queer play — two practices of structured freedom, where rules are the very thing that makes invention possible.