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Haunting In Kensington


  • Firstdraft 13–17 Riley Street Woolloomooloo Australia (map)

Haunting In Kensington
Blake Lawrence

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Haunting In Kensington hints at the magic-in-the-messiness of queer kin-fields and deep-seeded fag geographies. It presents image-based media, video montage and salvaged objects as an assemblage of ephemera for the contemplation of historical gay spaces, what it means when they are lost, and the steady erosion of time.

Haunting In Kensington embraces latent queer materialities, performing spectral persistence – while imagining new practices for the airing of collective grief: for fading spaces, flawed utopias, temporal displacement and for time robbed of togetherness.

A glory-hole as an aperture.

Haunting in Kensington includes two-channel video work Dust made in collaboration with Garden Reflexxx.

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