Sreshta Rit Premnath,
Steven Lam,
Steven Lam,
et al.Stephan Hillerbrand, Mary Magsamen, Simon Leung, Soyoung Yoon, Karen Cunningham, Dorit Cypis, Steve Ausbury, Dorothy Albertini, [11 More...]
The intimate is one of proximity and familiarity. As a relational category, intimacy is a quality of closeness, attachment, and belongingness. To be intimate with someone or some thing is to have an innermost connection. Intimacy, or intimus, designates interiority or an inward sensation, as in under one’s skin. To intimate is also to communicate with a hint, to imply subtly. This process requires a codified reception, a circle of acknowledgement and recognition. Intimacy not only designates issues pertinent to the discussion of home, sexuality, identity, the slippage between the private and public, but also relationships made out of kinship, ...