Where the gallery and gloryhole collide - this is performance for the sexually and artistically deviant.
"a mischievous living installation" - The Guardian, 2011
Your bandana is your ticket to Cruising for Art, a series of one-on-one performances by some of the country's most provocative performers set against an atmospheric back drop of disco and amyl nitrate. If you see someone with a matching bandana, eye contact, a smile, or a wink may start a wild journey, a tender moment or an intimate conversation. Wink at someone who is not one of our performers and, who knows, you may still make meaningful contact with a stranger...
December 9th at Vogue Fabrics, London 8pm: £5 cash at the door
December 10th at The Basement, Brighton 8pm: £8/£6 tickets in advance. go here: http://
WHAT A LINEUP!!
Curated by Brian Lobel and Aaron Wright
Performances include:
Touching Feeling, by Owen Parry: "In her last book before she died Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick made a case for Touching Feeling. This is another one."
Mummy Time by Bryony Kimmings: "Mummy Time: Wrapping is a Family Business"
Baby Warhol! by Chris Cresswell
Handover, by Rachel Gomme: "If I give you my hand, will you give me yours? An invitation to a brief exchange of touch that leaves a lasting trace."
Puppet Paramour by Boogaloo Stu: "Imagine your ideal lover, then create them as a sock puppet. Slip your hand inside, and enjoy the rest of the evening in the company of your (g)love puppet"
BURN, by GraceLES: "A one-on-one installation for forgetting."
TUI's Nail Bar: "Dalston's manicurist-to-the-tranny-stars gives you a mani you'll never forget"
Anatomy of Desire by Mamoru Iriguchi: "Multimedia striptease with difference. Come and help Mamoru undergo his metamorphosis into revolutionary new body and soul. Enjoy some fun and intimate close encounters along the way. (Testing Grounds commission)"
Catherine Long's "Solo for a right arm"
Hi, I'm Brad Pitt by Timberlina, performing as Tim Redfern: "You're HOT, but I need a sense of the real you before we think about exchanging body fluids"
Everything About You by Season Butler: "Season Butler has never met anyone like you before..."
Pussy Pocket by Eirini Kartsaki, "I open my pussy pocket and I find inside an autumn leave. My hair is long and it waves at me; this is your day, this is your day, it says. It looks lonely and kind of sad"
LADYLOVE by The Famous Lauren Barri Holstein: The Famous Lauren Barri Holstein will put on, for the very second time, an all-acoustic, UNPLUGGED performance, exclusively for the privileged audience of Cruising for Art. As an acclaimed woman/artist, The Famous will proffer her Female Strength to the audience in an intimate evening celebrating Self-Love, Sharing and Song. Leave your negativity at the door, so that your Inner Spirit can shine like a clean mirror, so that you can see your pretty face.
DJ sets by Bright Light Bright Light and Size Zero Albino
