The liminal expands across a spatio-temporal divide, limning demarcations between inside and outside, now and then, here and there, and us and them. Reaching for it, we might bump up against, and sometime erode, boundaries between the known and the unfamiliar. Yet, working through liminality engages not only with phenomenological experience but with processes and enactments. What might be necessary indeterminacies challenge ‘normative’ understandings or standard passages. Its affectual eventuations align with the anxieties of our current moment: an inexorable state of wait, being caught- in-between.

We are all a little on edge these days, and though we may feel trapped, reflecting on liminal conditions might imagine queer and other non-standard or resistant wayfinding in the project of conceptualizing future-bound transformation or roundabout, even unstable, ways of unsettling the false consciousness of the status quo. If edges delineate barriers, such limits can also be productive and goad us into thinking, seeing, and pushing beyond. Maybe Mean Girls (2004) had it right: suggesting a radical rethinking of liminality by announcing that “the limit does not exist.” Or, to reframe, what are the stakes of questioning the very nature of being limited? As Luce Irigaray suggested in This Sex Which is Not One: “Leave definitiveness to the undecided; we don't need it.”

Panel 1: Superseeding Limits

• 4:00 p.m. - Xelestial Moreno-Luz and James M. Dailey

Panel 2: Outer Limits

• 4:15 p.m. - sarah bricke, Christine Negus, and Kamryn Olds

4:30 p.m. - Q & A  and Discussion

Exhibiting artists: Leila Abdelrazaq, Mina Bae, Dina Cline, CW Crawford, eden, bianca gabrielle goyette, Aambr Newsome, newspaper, Ana Villalpando