#10 Underworld Issue / Chapter IX

Chapter IX

STERLING SILVER BARBELL

From the clanking of iron plates to the large hook earring catching the light mid-rep, metal moves through the queer gym as both adornment and instrument – changing the body, reflecting it, rubbing up against it.

#10 The Underworld Issue by Current Obsession Magazine descends beneath the surface into the buried knowledge systems and infrastructures that operate outside of visibility, rationality and classification. Underworld turns its attention to what persists below: the repressed, the illicit, the ritualised, the non-human and the non-legible.