Subverting the cisgaze.

The article discusses the concept of subverting the cisgaze in art, focusing on challenging the cishuman gaze's fixation on legibility and purity. The author explores the power dynamics of looking and the implications of inviting viewers into environments that confront them with impurity and vulnerability. By creating visually and sonically opaque environments, the author aims to protect nonhuman collaborators from the cishuman gaze and provide a space for interspecies refuge. The work emphasizes the importance of embracing incompleteness and failure as a form of resistance against the dominant ideologies of wholeness and resolution. [Extracted from the article]