K Anderson: Fissures of Displeasure
@ Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Thursday, June 29th, from 5PM - 6:30PM
On view through Saturday, August 5th
Deeply considering the quick and fragile nature of digital technologies and the purging of pornographic content online, writer K Anderson presents a lecture grappling with displeasure as a spectator and archivist of Black gay pornography. Anderson’s lecture dives into the evaporative im/possibilities of memory and arousal in her autoethnographic artistic practice and method called, nut chasing, as she writes and creates critical erotica and music from her observations of Black gay pornography from the 1980s and 90s.
By recognizing the ghost value in Black gay porn, Anderson contemplates the role of the artist and archivist in engaging and deriving inspiration from such an unstable archive and pornographic (sub)genre. Her interventions trouble efforts to ignore anti-blackness in one’s sexual interiorities in the pursuit of a wishful sexual otherwise.
ABOUT:
K Anderson (she/they) is a writer, porn archivist, and kinkster. Raised in Atlanta, Georgia and getting further from home each day. She earned a MA in American Studies and Graduate Certification in Sexuality Studies from Arizona State University. Broadly, she writes, studies, and creates music and visual art about Black sexual economies and geographies, pornography, BDSM, and kink. And yes, she’s ready to play.
ACCESS INFORMATION: This program is free and CART captioning will be available. For questions and access accommodations, email gallery400engagement@gmail.com.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Gravity Pleasure Switchback, the first major solo exhibition of Derrick Woods-Morrow, manifests itself as a euphoric dream state containing the phases and spaces inhabited by Black American Southerners. Wavering between life and death, rest and the hustle of everyday life, the exhibition is grounded in the exploration of the body as a place of boundless possibility. Woods-Morrow engages everyday materials to accentuate the vast shine, grit, and tangible labor being performed in private domesticity. Moreover, he expands on the perverse demand for Black folx to limitlessly power the public sphere.
Gravity Pleasure Switchback locates and entangles the exchanges of sexuality, desire, and the casual consumption of these energies. Inspired by Christina Sharpe’s In the Wake: On Blackness and Being, this installation performs wake work, embodies the ruptures, and unearths the complex relationship of private and public pleasure. Demanding visitors pay close attention, the exhibition unravels the remnants of rest and ruin.
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