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
Trying Hard to Think Pure (2019) Performance wearing Pearly Queen (2019), with sculptural hot water bottles handed out to audience. performed at 'Look what the cat dragged in' curated by Clementine Proby and Steinar Felix, de Pimlico Projects, 2019.
For the performance I wore the outfit ‘Pearly Queen’ and audience members were handed sculptural marbled latex hot water bottles to hold [see images]. De Pimlico Projects, housed in an unconverted former bedsit with no central heating, provided the opportunity to respond with a text centred queer desire, central heating systems and my relationship with my hot water bottle. The text interwoveThomas Aquinas’ six vices with interpreting Spinozan desire as abundance, to argue that my frequent use of a hot water bottle is a form of erotic relationship.
Extract below, images credit: Julie Sterre Schmitz
Image credit: Julie Sterre Schmitz