Feel warmly invited to this exhibition and program taking place at Scriptings, and hosted by GOSSIP GOSSIP GOSSIP in the frame of Zeitgeist Irland 24, an initiative of Culture Ireland and the Embassy of Ireland in Germany.
GOSSIP GOSSIP GOSSIP presents:
Lyónn Wolf
Domestic Optimism III – A lesbian squat isn't just for pornos
Join us for the opening on Sunday, 8 September, starting at 5pm, at Scriptings in Wedding
08 – 29 September 2024
Scriptings, Kameruner Strasse 47, 13351 Berlin
With Domestic Optimism III – A Lesbian Squat Isn’t Just for Pornos, Lyónn Wolf continues to explore a radical reimagining of our shared social spaces. Informed by their 80s childhood in Ireland and set on the intersection of queer identity, working-class history, and modernist architecture, this exhibition marks the third instalment of Wolf's "Domestic Optimism" series, which looks at social housing, the history of architecture and design, and, also, Ireland's scant modernist heritage from a queer working-class perspective.
For the Berlin edition, Wolf reimagines Dublin’s former Ballymun Towers—a demolished modernist social housing project—as sites of queer, working-class resilience. By connecting imaginary utopias, as well as historical queer figures, such as modernist designer-architect Eileen Gray, with the Ballymun Community Library’s archive, the project uncovers hidden histories and stories of activism, solidarity, and neighbourhood alliances that have been erased by urban development and structural classism. Wolf sounds out these narratives, lost and speculative, proposing a new vision of queer utopianism rooted in everyday life. Through a new sound work with performers Pêdra Costa, Transboy Dom and Line Skywalker Karlström – coproduced by Gossip Gossip Gossip and Scriptings – Wolf constructs a space where these unrealized, concealed and forgotten stories are reactivated, imagining a future, in which queer and trans identity, as well as working-class heritage, flourish together. Ultimately, Wolf is asking: what could working-class architectural heritage look like when seen through the eyes of queer resistance and collective optimism?
WHEN?
Exhibition duration: 8 – 29 September 2024
Opening hours: Saturdays & Sundays, 12 - 7pm
EVENTS (on Sundays):
8 September, 5 – 8pm: Opening with a performative intervention by Lyónn Wolf, Pêdra Costa, Transboy Dom, and Line Skywalker Karlstrom.
15 September, 6 – 8:30pm: Film screening „The 4th Act“ (Turlough Kelly, 2017), followed by a conversation between coopdisco and Lyónn Wolf, moderated by GOSSIP GOSSIP GOSSIP
22 September, 6 – 8pm: Film screening "Domestic Optimism" (Lyónn Wolf, 2020), followed by a conversation between artist Kerstin Honeit and Lyónn Wolf.
29 September, 5 – 7pm: Finissage with drinks
Image credits:
Domestic Optimism, exhibition, Grazer Kunstverein, 2020, photo credit - Christine Winkler
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„Domestic Optimism III - A lesbian squat isn't just for pornos“ is part of Zeitgeist Irland 24, an initiative of Culture Ireland and the Embassy of Ireland in Germany. With additional kind support by theaterhaus berlin.