ABSTRACT:

In this paper, I consider an exhibition Mixing It Up: Queering Curry Mile and Currying Canal Street (2007) I co-organized across institutional, public, and commercial spaces of Manchester, England, through the lens of Martinican poet Édouard Glissant’s creolization theory and queer theory. Creolization refers to the incessant flux of entanglements of cultures—a result of slavery, plantation culture, and colonialism—in the Caribbean. Glissant believed, though, that these entanglements could take place in tout-monde, or “all the world.” Before I return to Glissant’s ideas and weave in queer theory, I will briefly discuss the city of Manchester followed by the queer feminist artwork Sphere: dreamz and its re-siting.