The Between

Abstract

Thinking with this special issue's group of feminist thinkers–some artists and others scholars–this introduction makes a strong case for co-authorship and a more collaborative humanities, while also insisting that the couple form–that stalwart object of queer and feminist theory–is neither a known quantity nor an exhausted entity, but rather, a field ripe for analysis. Situated squarely within performance studies, this introduction pivots away from questions of ontology and toward method and performativity, in order to ask: what modes of intellectual practice, erotic exchange, political work, and aesthetic experimentation happen uniquely within couple forms, in their most capacious and non-self-same iterations? What queer and feminist work can they do? What, in other words, is possible in the infinity, if indeed it is an infinity, between one and two?.