LET'S TALK ABOUT SEX, bb
GHY Cheung, Thirza Cuthand, Dayna Danger, Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan, Vanessa Dion Fletcher, Gesig Isaac, Anique Jordan, Kablusiak, Ness Lee, Dan Cardinal McCartney, Grace Rosario Perkins, Tiffany Shaw-Collinge, Vivienne Shaw, Arielle Twist
Co-curated with Erin Sutherland
27 April–1 December 2019
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, Kingston, ON
Publication
This group exhibition features new works, collaborative installations, performances, workshops, poetry and film-based explorations that combine to create a narrative that expands the possibilities of sexual sociality. Let’s Talk About Sex, bb brings sex to the table to encourage open and raw conversations about our relationships to our own and each other’s bodies.
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We want to talk about sex.
We want to talk about touch and desire.
We want to talk about relationality.
We want to talk about pleasure, sexual health and taking care of our bodies.
We want to talk about how we learned to talk about sex.
About how we talk to our parents, our grandparents, our children, our friends, our kin, our lovers, our partners, our therapists about sex.
We want to talk about how we come to know ourselves through our bodies—and through each others’ bodies.
We want to talk about the sticky stuff.
About sex and bodies in all of their messy, euphoric and complicated glory.
We want to talk about talking before, during and after sex.
About consent.
About what comes after trauma.
About healing.
We want to talk about love, sensuality, cruising, futurisms, utopias and kinship, and all of their resurgent possibilities.
We want to talk about all of these things with you.
xo,
C+E
GHY Cheung, Thirza Cuthand, Dayna Danger, Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan, Vanessa Dion Fletcher, Gesig Isaac, Anique Jordan, Kablusiak, Ness Lee, Dan Cardinal McCartney, Grace Rosario Perkins, Tiffany Shaw-Collinge, Vivienne Shaw, Arielle Twist
Co-curated with Erin Sutherland
27 April–1 December 2019
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, Kingston, ON
Publication
This group exhibition features new works, collaborative installations, performances, workshops, poetry and film-based explorations that combine to create a narrative that expands the possibilities of sexual sociality. Let’s Talk About Sex, bb brings sex to the table to encourage open and raw conversations about our relationships to our own and each other’s bodies.
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We want to talk about sex.
We want to talk about touch and desire.
We want to talk about relationality.
We want to talk about pleasure, sexual health and taking care of our bodies.
We want to talk about how we learned to talk about sex.
About how we talk to our parents, our grandparents, our children, our friends, our kin, our lovers, our partners, our therapists about sex.
We want to talk about how we come to know ourselves through our bodies—and through each others’ bodies.
We want to talk about the sticky stuff.
About sex and bodies in all of their messy, euphoric and complicated glory.
We want to talk about talking before, during and after sex.
About consent.
About what comes after trauma.
About healing.
We want to talk about love, sensuality, cruising, futurisms, utopias and kinship, and all of their resurgent possibilities.
We want to talk about all of these things with you.
xo,
C+E
Photo credit: Paul Litherland
Curatorial Assistant: Ella Gonzales
Installation team: Scott Wallis, Mark Birksted, Neil Bettney, Bill Penner
Exhibition Coordinators: Sunny Kerr, Jennifer Nicoll, Leah Cox
Curatorial Assistant: Ella Gonzales
Installation team: Scott Wallis, Mark Birksted, Neil Bettney, Bill Penner
Exhibition Coordinators: Sunny Kerr, Jennifer Nicoll, Leah Cox