“chained up in a vat of guacamole”
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This Week:
💦 Chip butties and Top Cuvée
💦 Grindr’s angels at Ridley Road Project Space
💦 Orgasmic oblivion and adult flavoured ice cream courtesy of Extra Extra
Events:
Who would have thought that Mid-November would be a peak event week of the season? Wait… it's about a month since Frieze (wtf)… so it does make sense. In case you were wondering, spittle can be found working the room at Sadie Coles’ group show on Tuesday; getting our Thursday network on at Emalin and finishing the week eating chips while drinking orange wine at Norman’s cafe. Cya there xxx
🧊 16 November | Opening 6–8pm | Georg Wilson: Bearded with Moss, Arusha Gallery, 46 Great Titchfield Street, W1W 7QA [Oxford Street] | Exhibition runs through 24 November | Free
🧊 16 November | Opening 6–8pm | WHAT DO YOU SEE, YOU PEOPLE, GAZING AT ME, Sadie Coles HQ, 62 Kingly Street W1 [Oxford Circus] | Exhibition runs until 29 January 2022 | Free
🧊 17 November | 7pm | Alvaro Barrington in conversation with Mariana Mazzucato (Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at UCL), South London Gallery, 65 Peckham Rd SE5 8UH [Peckham Rye] | Tickets £5 (£3 Concessions/Members)
🧊 17-24 Nov | 11am–6pm | One in the Other: Phoebe Collings-James invites Onyeka Igwe to present film works that focus on the embodied knowing of colonial archive, Camden Art Centre, NW3 6DG [Finchley Road] | Free
🧊 18 November | Opening 6–9pm | Hand to your ear Part I (presence/surplus) (group show), Emalin, 1 Holywell Lane, EC2A 3ET [Liverpool Street] | Exhibition runs through 22 January, 2022 | Free
🧊 18 November | Opening 6–9pm | Douglas Cantor: Always Late to the Party, Guts Gallery, Unit 14/15, Pnearth Centre Ormside Street, SE15 1TR [South Bermondsey] | Exhibition runs through 24 November | Free
🧊 19 November | Opening 6–8pm | Nat Faulkner: Deluge, Commonage projects, 53 Old Bethnal Green Rd, E2 6QA [Bethnal Green] | Exhibition runs until 15 January 2022. Free
🧊 20 November | 11am–5pm | Wild Horses, Sim Smith, 6 Camberwell Passage, SE5 0AX [Denmark Hill] | Exhibition runs until 18 December. Free
🧊 20 November | 2–5pm | Reflections: Part 1, Female Figures by Women Artists, Workplace Gallery, 2–10 Hertford Road, N1 5ET [Oxford Circus] | Exhibition runs until 9 January 2022. Free
🧊 20 November | Opening 2–8pm | Tree and Leaf (group show), Hannah Barry Gallery, 4 Holly Grove, SE15 5DF [Peckham Rye] | Exhibition closes 22 January | Free
🧊 20 November | Finissage, 1–6pm | Cosima zu Knyphausen: Closet Drama, Piloto Pardo, 469 Bethnal Green, E2 9QH [Bethnal Green] | Exhibition closes 20 November | Free
🧊 21 November | 4pm–late | Norman’s Cafe 1st Birthday with Top Cuvée, Norman’s Cafe, 167 Junction Road, N19 5PZ [Tufnell Park] | Chip butties from £4
Exhibitions of the week
Seb Patane: Glee at Ridley Road Project Space. Open on Thursday 18th and Saturday 20th November, 1pm–6pm, Information here.
Returning from an art-making hiatus, Seb Patane’s solo show, Glee - with Ridley Road Project Space - continued the artist's nuanced and political investigations into masculinity. A monumental, interconnected wall-based installation – made up of collaged profile pictures screenshotted from dating apps Grindr, Tinder and Scruff – shows men posing in front of (sanitised street art-esque) angel wings murals. Some of the figures donning business attire – others clenching their packages, Patane’s work eloquently celebrates the diversity of gay consciousness today, while astutely observing the enforced clichés we voluntarily subject ourselves to on social media looking for love. Another work – layered with beautiful collage, drawing and painting – incorporated images of male-to-male tenderness from across the past 100 years. One striking image was curiously misleading: what appears to be a (gay) military fantasy of two American soldiers kissing in fact was staged by straight men, kissing as a FUCK U to Trump’s shameful policy to return to the 'don’t ask don’t tell’ rule (which thankfully was repealed by Biden this year).
Hot links
🐎“freezing, tweaking, and ready to be POSH in le COLD” - Given this is the first ~ real ~ November in two years the coldness seems to have come quicker and faster than anticipated. But how to dress – and even behave – as 2022 approaches, you may wonder? Le hipster portal recommend: thigh high Chelsea boots (not totally sure these exist); speed strutting (walk everywhere like you're on a fast paced runway) and ANYTHING EQUESTRIAN - but not western!!!, MIXING PLEATHER AND LEATHER, Oh… and Adderall. In small amounts.
🎻 “If you’re looking for the whole truth… you probably shouldn’t look on the Internet.” - Issy Wood delves into the secrets of her practice while in conversation with cult writer Ottessa Moshfegh for Picture Books, Gagosian’s new project promoting artists to symbiotically collaborate with writers – designed to free writers from the restrictions of a typical catalogue essay. Into it.
🧘 “Why is their yoga instructor sharing QAnon hashtags?” - The Guardian’s Sirin Kale reports in longform the rise of Covid-19-related wellness corruption: from self-care and chakras to Conspirituality, and “medical apartheid”. Kale scarily reveals: ‘Many of these leading anti-vaxxers are alternative health entrepreneurs… They’re reaching millions of users every day.’ Gulp.
🥑 “Chained up in a vat of guacamole” - spittle is obsessed with this bonkers podcast from Extra Extra magazine, the newly released episode 9 of which features whale sex, a framed lovestain on a trawlerman’s bed sheet, orgasmic oblivion, and adult flavoured ice cream. Devised by writer Dan Fox and artist Michael Portnoy with sound scape by designer Loes Verstappen.
🧶 “I didn’t know about Celine before because I’m not a fashion person. I am an artist” - Dal Chodha reviews Celine’s (new) New Bond Street outpost, which opened last week and is filled with tactile, textural decor and artworks, including a striking 2.7m black totem by Leilah Babirye. A must-visit this weekend!
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San Mei Gallery’s first concept dinner, in collaboration with Goby Fish Collective, who have a food-based practice, will be held on 14th December, in conjunction with their fundraising exhibition The Dinner Table. The performance/meal focuses on themes of community and individual nourishment, as a vessel for radical thought and exchange. Tickets cost £70 (available here), with a limit of 25 spaces. Profits will be split equally between the gallery and Goby Fish Collective, to fund future projects.
Parting Shot
Writer Max Lakin has been on a roll recently on Twitter. Spittle can’t help agreeing with the below:
Love,