Event overview
A one night exhibition by Vika Kirchenbauer and Paul Maheke guest curated by W. Giovanni Gonzales at White Cubicle Toilet Gallery in The Queen Adelaide.
We had been chatting on Scruff for months, playing games, trading pics. I went over. We had some wine and then we fucked. I mean, a fuck is a fuck, right?
Exhibited together, like several, anonymous one night stands, 'And then we came' is a one night exhibition at White Cubicle in The Queen Adelaide that confronts ideas regarding intimacy, spectatorship and queerness. Drawing from multiple sexual experiences, each piece becomes grounded in the understanding that through visual culture and body politics, there is the opportunity to envision a more valid and sustainable way of coexisting in the world.
Vika Kirchenbauer’s (b.1983) work, occupies the 'blue room' with her video 'PLEASE RELAX NOW' (2014). The work “examines the overlap of current developments in performance art, art display, economics, marketing and the participatory nightmare of life and work.” Kirchenbauer urges visitors to re-claim the gallery and masturbate together, while questioning the capacity of art as a socio-political tool of sexual intervention.
In the 'mirror room' Paul Maheke (b.1985) creates a site-specific installation based off different hues and shades of light. On clear vinyl, adhered to a mirror, a poem written by Maheke titled 'Pornoscope' (2013) is based on Foucault's Panopticon, and questions the role of the individual in relation to queered space, seemingly written for this alternative space.
DJ Dom Top will be mixing up some seriously sexy beats downstairs.
The White Cubicle Toilet Gallery was founded by Pablo Leon de la Barra in 2005 and works with no budget, staff or boundaries. After being located within the Ladies Toilet of the George and Dragon public house for 10 years the gallery moved in 2015 with the George and Dragon landlords, Richard Battye and Liliana Sanguino, to their new pub the Queen Adelaide. Since it's inception White Cubicle has since been presenting a discerning programme of local and international manifestations as an antidote to London’s sometimes extremely commodified art scene. Past exhibitions have included Deborah Castillo, Gregorio Magnani, Butt Magazine, Federico Herrero, Terence Koh, i-Cabin, Steven Gontarski, Pixis Fanzine/Princess Julia and Hanah, General Idea and avaf, Basso Magazin, Carl Hopgood, Giles Round, Tim Noble and Sue Webster, Superm, (Brian Kenny and Slava Mogutin), Elkin Calderon, Wolfgang Tillmans, Calvin Holbrook/Hate Magazine, Husam el Odeh, Simon Popper, Fur, Dik Fagazine, Rick Castro/Abravanation, Jean Michel Wicker, Noki, Ellen Cantor, Karl Holmqvist, Julie Verhoeven, Aldo Chaparro, Esther Planas, Nikos Pantazopoulos, Luis Venegas, Twinklife, Paola Revenoiti, Rocky Alvarez, Benedetto Chirco, STH Magazine, Elmgreen & Dragset, Francesc Ruiz, Sico Carlier, Stefan Benchoam, Thomas Dozol, Marco Rountree, Aleksandra Mir, Cameron Irving, the Hundley Twins, Tetine, Prem Sahib, Scott King, Jorge de la Garza and many others.
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Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 4 Aug 2016 | 8:30pm - 12:45am |
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