“Domestic Optimism III – A lesbian squat isn’t just for porno’s” is the third part in Lyónn Wolf’s “Domestic Optimism” cycle, which turns a queer working-class gaze onto architecture, social housing and modernism. The Berlin edition includes a newly commissioned sound work that reestablishes and reimagines Dublin’s former Ballymun Towers as working class architectural heritage and queer high rise utopias.
Organized by GOSSIP GOSSIP GOSSIP, an ongoing platform for queer feminist knowledge production conceived and curated by Anja Lückenkemper and Sandra Teitge.
Programme:
8th September, 5 – 8pm
Exhibition opening with a performative intervention by Lyónn Wolf with participation by Pêdra Costa, Line Skywalker Karlstrom, and Transboy Dom.
15th September, 6 – 8.30pm
Screening of “The 4th Act“ (documentary, 74′, 2017). Directed by Turlough Kelly, produced by Andrew Keogh for Bread & Circus. Ballymun is a suburb of Dublin and home to the largest social regeneration programme in Europe. The 4th Act examines the legacy of this 18-year regeneration project, via the dramatically and digitally reconstructed memories of the community itself. Followed by a conversation with coopdisco, Lyónn Wolf, moderated by GOSSIP GOSSIP GOSSIP
29th September, 6-8pm
Screening of “Domestic Optimism”, followed by a conversation with Kerstin Honeit and Lyónn Wolf
Finissage with drinks
Lyónn Wolf is a trans, working class, visual artist, educator & writer making work intentionally shaped by economic necessity. They engage forms of recycling, thrift & ephemera, resulting in soft modularity, wild archiving & performative intervention, posing questions about value, accumulation & authorship. They see a cultural centring of thrift as part of a tradition of queer-working class vernacular & ethics, promiscuous & adept at working within limitations. Their pedagogical and publishing work posits the imagination as a political tool with radical potential that can exist & erupt anywhere at anytime. Lyónn has developed a trilogy of works since 2014 dealing with queer economies and spatial politics. The Re-appropriation of Sensuality, Sex in Public, and Domestic Optimism have been exhibited through various iterations at: The Project Arts Centre Dublin, The Grazer Kunstverein, Steirischer Herbst Festival Graz, NCAD Gallery Dublin, Dundee Contemporary Arts, District Berlin, Den Frie Center Of Contemporary Art Copenhagen, nGbK Berlin, Archive Kabinet Berlin, Survival Kit Festival Riga and De Appel Amsterdam among other places.
coopdisco is a cooperative of architects who are committed to urban development oriented towards the common good.
Kerstin Honeit works as an artist with experimental documentary moving image formats.