Performances
Hannah Quinlan & Rosie Hastings
Installation
8 - 24 Oct 2021
The event is over
The film is shot primarily in Birmingham’s gay village, an area once heavily dominated by male-only-venues now undergoing rapid gentrification in anticipation of HS2, a high-speed rail connecting Birmingham to London. Both venues featured in the film: Bar Jester and Core club are now permanently closed.
Narrated by a new soundtrack composed by Owen Pratt the film features a series of performances choreographed by Les Child. In My Room takes a critical look at male-only social and sex spaces, considering the practice of public sex between men as a nexus of power and world-building, questioning, who is able to take risks? Who is allowed agency over their own pleasure? how to be visible without being exploited? How to lay claim to public space? As the closure of gay venues exposes gay male culture to new challenges the film is intended to function both as a provocation and a document of LGBTQ culture at a time of political, social and cultural turmoil.
Hannah Quinlan & Rosie Hastings, In My Room, 2020. HD vidéo, couleur, son, 17 min 44 sec
Courtesy des artistes, Arcadia Missa, Londres et galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
Where
Level –1
When
8 - 24 Oct 2021
Hannah Quinlan et Rosie Hastings, In my Room, 2020
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