You are invited to the launch of Significant Others by frank r jagoe, winner of the 2024 Prototype Prize.
with
Remi Graves
Erin Holly
frank r jagoe
Allie Oliver
EK Myerson
Lou Lou Sainsbury
Daniella Valz Gen
PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE IS NO BAR BUT YOU ARE WELCOME TO BYOB.
‘Significant Others is a fully grown and highly original manuscript. It is a remarkable and beautiful piece of writing which forges a new language of material aesthetics to think and write beyond the human. There is a fluency and elasticity of invention here, resonating with the processes of artistic creation and encounter. Exciting, passionate and surprising.’
– Bhanu Kapil, Tom McCarthy and Elizabeth Price, judges of the 2024 Prototype Prize
The Way I Feel it Slipping All Over Me (2018). Performance wearing sculpture (Scrofula). Performed at Hypersea (Art Monte Carlo) and In some far off place Many light years in space I'll wait for you (Cubitt Gallery)
The text is written as an ode to the bay of Monaco, a desire for a sexual encounter with a body of water. The yacht which hosted the exhibition was an ambivalent and hierarchical space, in which both artists and art works were restricted in where they were allowed to sit, stand, and what they were allowed to touch, due to the stated value of the interior decor and fittings. I wrote the text in advance of going to Monaco and seeing the yacht itself, so it is a speculative romance. The performative reading integrates the erotic desire for watery embodiment, with water sports, and the simultaneous aspiration and disgust elicited by the ostentatious wealth and hierarchy of value displayed in Monaco.
