The curators of the Cruising Pavilion present the project in detail, before a conversation with artist Lili Reynaud-Dewar, whose work featured in the pavilion and is on view at Punta della Dogana in Dancing with Myself
Opened on the occasion of the 16th edition of the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Cruising Pavilion curated by Pierre-Alexandre Mateos, Rasmus Myrup, Octave Perrault and Charles Teyssou, explores the relations between dissident sexualities and architecture through the practice of cruising, which historically refers to homosexual encounters in public locations, such as gardens, cinemas, public urinals, as well as spaces conceived for this specific purpose, such as sex-clubs and saunas.
How do these spaces of politico-sexual freedom and utopia emerge? How has the practice of cruising inspired works in art, cinema and literature? Can we speak of an architecture of cruising? How did the commodification of the LGBTQI+ counter-cultures and the digital change the practice of cruising?
The origins of this project and the aesthetic stakes it raises are addressed through screenings, talks and readings.
The Cruising Pavilion was presented at Spazio Punch, Giudecca, Venezia.
