Edgezones Present HOMO HUMOUR

 

 

There’s a new Event this weekend in Miami’s Wynwood Art District that has just come up on our radar and we think we want to go check it out.  It’s part of PerforMIA 2020 an evening of Performance, noise, videos and experimental sound.

 

Its called HOMO HUMOUR and is a  selection of short films by queer male filmmakers from U.K, USA and Australia curated by Lee Campbell..

They all  explore the application of humour and comedy tactics by contemporary queer male artists and invites visitors to reflect upon how queer male culture has employed artistic embraces of humour and comedy as strategies to challenge, transgress, subvert and rebel. By doing so, they not only counter art history’s rancor towards and is resistant to particular kinds of humour that are only now being embraced by the most recent methodologies, these artists offer compelling ways of using humour as an artistic, disruptive, cathartic and transgressive act that provokes awareness of key critical issues relating to queer male representation historically and today.

The program will consist of the following shorts: 

Lee Campbell LET RIP: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF SEEING AND NOT SEEING (2019) 8 mins Ilker Cinarel Imagine the Future (2019) 5 mins 55 Jordan McKenzie Monsieur Poo-Pourri Takes a Tour of his Estate Bethnal Green, London (2010)
 9 mins 17 Joao Dall’Stella  Stalls (2019) 3 mins

 Press;  http://www.queerguru.com/homo-humour/

Daughters of Hecate - White Crypt Gallery

 

 

Daughters of Hecate

Monday 6th May 4-9pm

Lucy Stein

Sarah Hartnett

Mark Harwood

Ilker Cinarel

Steven Claydon

Stefania Batoeva

White Crypt is pleased to invite you to the opening of Daughters of Hecate, a group show curated by Lucy Stein, 
in collaboration with Anaïs Lerendu and Adam Thomas. 
The show will open from 4-9pm on Monday 6th May Bank Holiday and will host performances and DJ set.

'Daughters of Hecate brings together six artists who work in London and west Cornwall, or both places.

It is my ambition to derail the Michael and Mary Ley Lines, which converge via my studio in Newlyn, and get 

them to rejoin at the Crypt under St Marks. London is a deeply pagan place that could slough off its concrete 

cladding at any moment with a rupture of it’s capricious will. What these artists have in common is working from 

positions of passion, obsession with mortality, addiction to viscera, to loud music and recognition that to emerge 

psychically alive from the tomb of surveillance-capitalism, you have to venture darkly into the underbelly of deep 

information and court real pain.’

 

Lucy Stein, 2019

FORWARD

 

FORWARD

A flyposter exhibition.

> moving

> nudging

> forward attack

>  forward thinking

> tripping forward

> a bit forward

> pushing forward

> falling forward

> accidental

> motion

> bouncing

> rolling

> paying it forward

> and no bull shit.

A series of posters created by Syllabus III following provocations set by Recent Activity and Eastside Projects, as part of the fourth retreat within the Syllabus programme.

Syllabus is an alternative peer-led learning programme, jointly delivered by Eastside Projects, Wysing Arts Centre, New Contemporaries, S1 Artspace, Spike Island, Studio Voltaire and Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts).

The Syllabus III artists are Frederica Agbah, Chris Alton, Conor Baird, Ilker Cinarel, Phoebe Davies, Freya Dooley, Rose Gibbs, Jill McKnight, Ben Sanderson and Karis Upton.

Flexing Around, performance poster, 2017

 

              

                              Flexing Around, performance poster, 2017, porthemeor studios borlase smart         room, St Ives, UK

Boy Room, 2017, Installation

 

 

BOY ROOM, 2017, Installation

When you have been growing up as an adolescent in a dysfunctional home, in which, no one understands your feelings and emotions.  When you have never been free to speak or share your opinions about life. At that moment everything is falling into pieces. Pieces out of which you can make urgent responses.   

Through fearful or traumatic times you cannot make anything. Other people’s powers dominate and control you. However there becomes that moment where you begin to feel that amazing journey begins inside you my dear Love.

I will start to open all spaces for you to make a body of work that can exist in your ideas of how home can be.

When I start to make work I start to use home-style magazines to respond to with the feelings that I felt as a boy. I begin with the desire to create the home I always wanted, where I could express my feelings.

This site-specific work, reflecting a time of melancholia is inspired by Picasso’s blue period, Yves Klein’s international Klein blue paintings and the colour of the ocean beyond the window.

I try to give a sense of the boy becoming free within an interior space. I use painting and collage to urgently respond to what I already know.

Heads

Head I

Head II

This two oil paintings show in our head of creative space, times, moments and state of mind. Our productive and intellectual, psychological phases; Eating books, chancing our body, face movements. Paintings made with spontaneous and fluid attitude.This create absurd, ridiculous and at the same time humouristic view.

Hide and Seek

 

In that work first of all I draw different poises of my self on to the wall. I leant against the wall and drew all of my body from where I stood from top of my head and I painted with black. I was drawing them as though a child play hide and seek. Some of them they were hiding, some of them we can see their body marked in the space. One of the figures by the entrance is offering to audience Turkish delight , second figure by the corner ( hands up ) it is kind of represent here I am, of another figure we can just see the fingers. I started to paint them and they started to became like shadow, like skin of the body and hologram bodies at the space. As I looked at them they appear more like alien bodies, and there is not specific gender or sexuality. it is a play between kids games and cultural, and social references.