Can’t we take a joke anymore? Or worse, can’t we tell one?
I interviewed Alfie Bown @everydayanalysis about his book Post-Comedy launched at Verdurin in November and published by @politybooks.
Listen/get the book at —link-in-bio
The history of gay liberation has been a dance of two steps forward, a step backwards, and a few sideway jumps. Today, a new fight for another vision of LGBTQ+ freedom rages on.
Over the Rainbow: join Stonewall co-founder Simon Fanshawe OBE and the father of the 'metrosexual' Mark Simpson in conversation about the ends of gay liberation.
📅 23 February, 2-6pm
📍 Verdurin, Hoxton
🎟️ http://verdur.in/event/over-the-rainbow/
A recording of Oliver Bennett’s play What We May Also Do written in response to Anna Sebastian’s exhibition of the same title, both staged at Verdurin this summer, is now in online.
http://verdur.in/event/what-we-may-also-do-by-oliver-bennett/
Written and directed by Oliver Bennett.
Performed with Oliver Bennett and Kirsten Milward.
A woman approaches the gate of a walled city. Her admission depends on the depth of her moral liberation and embrace of boundless self-determination. A border guard assesses her character for its fit with the city’s society. In a series of interrogations, a charged relationship develops between the supplicant and her assessor. The process ultimately tests their belief in the system.
Bennett’s play develops a theatrical language that responds to Sebastian’s work and engages with the psychoanalytic ‘Gloria’ films which also inspire the paintings. It challenges contemporary attitudes to sex, religion, and power by exposing liberal values upheld by flawed individuals.
Thanks to Cameron Lee and Aimee Armstrong for the recording.
9/11 Watch Party
Wednesday, 11 September, 7pm
https://verdur.in/event/9-11-watch-party/
Were the attacks of 9/11 “the greatest work of art imaginable for the whole cosmos”, as the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen put it? If so, what part does art play in memorialising, investigating, theorising, or distorting them? How do the artefacts produced by artists and amateurs measure up to the experience of seeing the attacks on cathode ray televisions screens in 2001?
9/11 Watch Party. Wednesday, 11 September. Tickets £15.
Join Verdurin for the as-seen-on-TV event of the year. Experience again the fear, tears, and paranoia of the live news channel analysis and raw unedited footage of the disaster.
https://verdur.in/event/9-11-watch-party/
#september11 #wtc911 #wtcmemorial #911memorial
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