Spaces of Epiphany A Queer Performance toward a Spatial Theory

Abstract

This research emerges from epiphanies that are approached as moments in which fragmented spatio-temporalities and bodily orientations collapse, producing a queer threshold where experience cannot be located in either the past or the present.
The study investigates whether epiphany generates queer inflections within relations on spatio-temporality and the body. Methodologically, the research proposes an ethically situated threefold spatial framework -mnemonic space, epinemonic projection, and epiphenomenal space- to articulate this epiphanic spatio-temporality. It operates through an artifact produced under undefined conditions of encounter. By reworking notes taken at the moment of epiphany through material, tectonic, and bodily operations, the artifact generates a process in which knowledge emerges performatively. In doing so, it tests where architectural knowledge strains, fails, or leaks, positioning epiphany as a queer spatial tool for architectural inquiry.