Queevaluing The Coming Back Out Ball: Towards a Creative Framework of Self-Determined Values
摘要
Following the colourful trail of The Coming Back Out Ball and the LGBTIQ+ Elders Dance Club across Australia and beyond, this chapter engages with the queer aesthetic of independent Australian arts organisation, All The Queens Men. We consider how meaning and significance are created and “measured” by and between artists, elders, and allies in this socially engaged arts project. Where the domains of creativity, community, and wellbeing often lead to competing “spectres of evaluation” (Badham, 2019), we propose a speculative values framework to reflect the multivalent nature of All The Queens Men’s processes and outcomes. In doing so, we resist externally employed forms of instrumentalising impact measurement, and instead deploy queer, dialogic, participatory, and creative methodologies that, at their core, are underpinned by regenerative “value” and restorative “values”.