Talk
Mathew Parkin in Conversation with Kim McAleese
12 Nov 2016
Grand Union
Birmingham, United Kingdom
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Still image from I Believe In You
Exhibition
Mathew Parkin: Slope-Tend-Big
11 Nov 2016 – 18 Nov 2016
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 19 Minerva Works
- Fazeley Street
- Birmingham
- B5 5RS
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Train Stations: nearest is Moor Street 10 minutes walk 20 minutes walk from Birmingham New Street
Event map
The gallery will be transformed into a queer social space, with a changing installation of artworks and a public programme of events. Parkin will present his own work, alongside that of invited artists and writers, to form a wider conversation about queer artistic practice.
About
Grand Union is pleased to present slope-tend-big, a project by Mathew Parkin for SHOUT Queer Arts Festival 2016. Parkin will present new edits of video footage taking diaristic moments of queer food sharing, lesbian parenthood, dancing figures and eroticised male bodies, along with interviews and new writing. These videos are presented as looping mirrors, churning moments of privacy and introversion within the social space of the gallery. The installation will also contain new photographic works on fabric, partitioning and sectioning the space, creating more private moments. Free condoms and lube will be available to take away.
Parkin has created a selection of artists films to be shown; featuring work by Jamie Crewe, Moyra Davey, Christopher Kirubi, Paul Maheke, Alex Padfield, Marlon T. Riggs and Rehana Zaman. These videos speak of desire, eroticism of the body, of female identity and of mortality.
A poster will be available to take away, containing a newly commissioned essay by Laura Guy.
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