Things Change Anyway: Pointing, Touching is a site-specific exhibition that highlights the complexity of unraveling ongoing processes of change and how queer relationships, self-chosen family structures and non-human kinship open up new possibilities for belonging. The exhibition at SJCD explores how ephemeral and bodily memories, feelings and dreams can be conveyed in all their “messy” complexity.

A central figure of thought in Things Change Anyway is the asterisk (*), which is used, for example, in the term “ trans* ” to make the concept more inclusive than the word “transperson”. Coble and Wolthers explore the tentacle-like appearance of the asterisk and references to starfish, octopuses, spiders and other “fingered” creatures. Tentacles are also associated with both touching and pointing – which has inspired the title of the new part of the project and its methods of montage, networking and togetherness. The exhibition Things Change Anyway: Pointing, Touching at SJCD unfolds entangled narratives with different tracks, layers and material adaptations.

Installation view

Photo by MC Coble