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Notes:: A description of the exhibit excerpted from an essay by curators Doug Ischar and John Paul Ricco: "The hyphenated and neologistic title of this exhibition, in its resonance with the term phagocyte, references a lexicon of AIDS discourse, micropolitics of desire, and the consumption or destruction of discrete units. It thereby begins to cite counter-strategies of queer cultural practice, and the multiplicity of spaces, geographies, and architectures that they fabricate, disrupt, re-invent, and appropriate as fag-o-sites. These discrete units may be understood as spaces created by strictly identity-based and often ghettoizing practices. Fag-o-sites, on the other hand, are non-ghettoizing, de-domesticating, survival fabrications of queer everyday life, through which spaces are temporarily claimed and dislocated for purposes of queer resistance and future survival."