Crossings - Reading with Liz Rosenfeld
When: May 4, 2026 - From 20.00
Listen to Liz Rosenfeld read from Crossings!
Liz Rosenfeld reads from their book Crossings: Creative Ecologies of Cruising, co-written with João Florêncio, which explores queer cruising as a social and sexual practice, and as a broader creative and conceptual framework. Reading from 20.00, limited capacity so get in early to secure a spot.
Crossings: Creative Ecologies of Cruising
Crossings explores queer cruising not only as a social or sexual practice, but as a broader creative and conceptual framework. The book reimagines cruising as a way of thinking and making that unsettles fixed ideas of space, time, identity and the body, opening up new possibilities for connection, experience and expression. Blending personal reflection with critical inquiry, Florêncio and Rosenfeld draw on histories of queer life while moving beyond them, creating a hybrid work that sits between artist’s book, theory and memoir. Through an interwoven dialogue, their voices invite readers into a fluid space shaped by desire, memory and imagination. The result is an experimental and thought-provoking exploration of intimacy and creativity, offering new perspectives on how relationships, environments and identities can be understood and reimagined.
Liz Rosenfeld is a London/ Berlin based interdisciplinary artist and educator who works with performance, moving images, drawing and experimental writing practices. Their work addresses the sustainability of emotional and political ecologies, cruising methodologies, past and future histories in regard to the ways in which memory is queered. They hold an MFA in Performance (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), an MA in Performance Studies (NYU) and will start their doctoral studies at the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University in late 2026. João and Liz are the authors of Crossings: Creative Ecologies of Cruising (Rutgers University Press, 2025).
João Florêncio is Professor of Gender Studies (Sex Media & Sex Cultures) at Linköping University, Sweden. Trained in queer studies, cultural studies, and visual cultures, João’s work is concerned with the ways in which the queer body has been produced, policed, and contested as a political site of creative and affective sexual world-making in modern and contemporary cultures. He is the author of Bareback Porn, Porous Masculinities, Queer Futures: The Ethics of Becoming-Pig (Routledge, 2020).
