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"Repositioning queer memory as a kind of pagan burial practice, OOPART invite you to collectivise your experiences and petrify them in the communal bog in this intriguing 10 day intervention full of urban mythology, DIY idols and future-pagan performance art. "
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A event held at KIT FORM on Tomorrow. The event starts at 18:00.
OOPARTs presents Bog Idol, a collaborative exhibition and series of events taking place at KIT FORM in November. Exhibition opening ritual with performances on Friday 22nd November featuring;
Buoys Buoys Buoys
Daniela Dyson
eden
Luke Ridley
Bog Idol is a celebration of queer memory, mythology, artefact, and alternative archiving, explored through the metaphor of the peat bog, across sculpture, sound and performance. The exhibition centres around the bog as a transitional, queer space of ritual and their remarkable ability to preserve, from bog bodies to ritual artefacts.
The exhibition will open with a ritual on Friday 22nd November, creating a fertile space to manifest safer queer futures and create an archive of Bristol’s current queer reality. Positioning the peat bog as a form of organic archiving, the exhibition will become a space to gather queer realities Inviting visitors to contribute stories and ephemera and to create a time capsule which will be interned at the end of the exhibition; the Closing Ritual on the 1st December. Free public workshops will take place on Sunday the 24th November.
The exhibition will take place over 10 days at KIT FORM, Jamaica Street, Stokes Croft, Bristol. OOPARTs is a platform for collaborations by Bristol based artists Ben Hartley & Buoys Buoys Buoys. This project was made possible by funding from the Bristol City Council Originators Fund, part of the Cultural Investment Fund.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
Buoys Buoys Buoys
Daniela Dyson
eden
Luke Ridley
Bog Idol is a celebration of queer memory, mythology, artefact, and alternative archiving, explored through the metaphor of the peat bog, across sculpture, sound and performance. The exhibition centres around the bog as a transitional, queer space of ritual and their remarkable ability to preserve, from bog bodies to ritual artefacts.
The exhibition will open with a ritual on Friday 22nd November, creating a fertile space to manifest safer queer futures and create an archive of Bristol’s current queer reality. Positioning the peat bog as a form of organic archiving, the exhibition will become a space to gather queer realities Inviting visitors to contribute stories and ephemera and to create a time capsule which will be interned at the end of the exhibition; the Closing Ritual on the 1st December. Free public workshops will take place on Sunday the 24th November.
The exhibition will take place over 10 days at KIT FORM, Jamaica Street, Stokes Croft, Bristol. OOPARTs is a platform for collaborations by Bristol based artists Ben Hartley & Buoys Buoys Buoys. This project was made possible by funding from the Bristol City Council Originators Fund, part of the Cultural Investment Fund.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions