In Among Ghosts: Queerying Bauhaus, Part 2, we activate the research developed in Part 1 (Winter Semester 25–26) through the creation and operation of the Queerying Bar - a temporary queer social space that serves as a gathering point, a performative interface, and a site for collective inquiry.
Historically, bars have functioned as key infrastructures of queer life - spaces of gathering, exchange, and informal knowledge production. Inspired by this tradition, the seminar treats the bar as a form of social architecture in which research becomes atmosphere, gesture, and interaction. The Queerying Bar will serve simultaneously as a meeting place, performance venue, research lab, and living archive - in dialogue with guests, collaborators and local queer communities.
Research developed in Part One, and published on UMBAU, will be translated into public-facing extracts. These published works - texts, images, audio, annotations, or speculative materials - form the conceptual and narrative backbone of the bar. Rather than presenting research in a traditional academic format, we use the bar to activate, test, and complicate our findings live through bar-based formats such as events, performances, discussions, rituals, and participatory encounters.
Participants are invited to host, curate, and document the events while critically reflecting on questions of hospitality, care, accessibility, consent, and collective authorship.
This seminar is also open to students who did not participate in part one (Winter Semester 2025-26).
Historically, bars have functioned as key infrastructures of queer life - spaces of gathering, exchange, and informal knowledge production. Inspired by this tradition, the seminar treats the bar as a form of social architecture in which research becomes atmosphere, gesture, and interaction. The Queerying Bar will serve simultaneously as a meeting place, performance venue, research lab, and living archive - in dialogue with guests, collaborators and local queer communities.
Research developed in Part One, and published on UMBAU, will be translated into public-facing extracts. These published works - texts, images, audio, annotations, or speculative materials - form the conceptual and narrative backbone of the bar. Rather than presenting research in a traditional academic format, we use the bar to activate, test, and complicate our findings live through bar-based formats such as events, performances, discussions, rituals, and participatory encounters.
Participants are invited to host, curate, and document the events while critically reflecting on questions of hospitality, care, accessibility, consent, and collective authorship.
This seminar is also open to students who did not participate in part one (Winter Semester 2025-26).