Museum Mismatches and Institutional Dysphoria: Relations Between Museums and Sexual Dissidents Outside the Anglophone World

Abstract

Abstract This article will address experiences centred around relationships—which are often conflictive—between sexual dissidents and museums, in particular outside the Anglophone world. In it, I address certain projects that I have worked on personally and collectively as an artist, and offer reflections that are undoubtedly conditioned by my own status as a migrant and sexually dissident person who collaborates with a museum in Barcelona. In this regard, the article is not a theoretical one, but rather a personal reflection intended to analyse my experiences situationally, and to identify ways for museums and dissidents to relate that take on and circumvent power relations, the logic of mere representation, and ‘extractive practices’ that have marked these relationships to date.