Bog Idol

About

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.

The exhibition will take place over 10 days at KIT FORM, Jamaica Street, Stokes Croft, Bristol. Separate posts with event information to follow.

Opening Ritual Friday 22nd November 6-9pm

Workshops Sunday 24th November 2-4pm 

Closing Ritual Sunday 1st December 4-7pm

OOPARTs is a platform for collaborations by Bristol based artists Ben Hartley & Johnny Jones / Buoys Buoys Buoys. This project was made possible by funding from the Bristol City Council Originators Fund, part of the Cultural Investment Fund.