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Day 3: Joe Bobowicz

published on 3 February 2019

SHOWstudio Editorial Assistant Joe Bobowicz continues his exploration of 'pride' on Tumblr, analysing work by creatives including Craig Green and Cottweiler.

SHOWstudio Editorial Assistant Joe Bobowicz continues his exploration of 'pride' on Tumblr, analysing work by creatives including Craig Green and Cottweiler.

Gay Marriage, 2010, Elmgreen & Dragset A recurring motif I have come to see in gay art of recent is the bathroom. Perhaps this is a nod to cottaging and cruising - a ritualistic encounter commemorated in the Cottweiler A/W 19 collection, ‘The Lost Art of Cruising’.
Cottweiler A/W 19 This look really stood out for me. The choice to present a collection that took heavy inspiration from golf gear was peculiar, but ultimately genius. A staple of suburban masculinity, golf as a sport is infamously conservative, enforcing dress codes and gender separation. Topped off with Mercedes and Audi branded accessories, the collection threw classic machismo into a world it has long feared.
The Experiment, 2012, Elmgreen & Dragset
Craig Green in a queer anthology of rage, compiled and edited by Richard Porter Green is a fashion designer whose work leaves streams of editors in tears.
Performing You, 2017, Eddie Peake I took this image at the opening of Eddie Peake’s exhibition, Concrete Pitch, which showed at the White Cube Bermondsey. If you look closely you can see me mirrored in the left of the image, taking a photo. Following this action I was left feeling somewhat contemplative - this is what great art should do.
Rush, 2017, Prem Sahib, steel drinking fountain and resin I came across this work at the David Zwirner gallery in a group show. At the time I had chosen to photograph the work for purely aesthetic pleasure - since then my reception to the work has become more complex. Sahib’s works often look to gay club culture and cruising; Sahib also runs a night Anal House Meltdown with friends Eddie Peake and George Henry Longly, all of whom studied at the Slade School of Fine Art together.
Berghain, Berlin It was in my favourite club that I first met artist Prem Sahib. ‘Berghain’ - an amalgamation of Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain - is the name of said club. The Berghain club - a former industrial factory - opened in 2004 to resurrect the legendary club ‘Ostgut’ following its closure in 2003. Ostgut hosted ‘Snax’, a male-only fetish night, which still runs biannually at Berghain. The clientele of Berghain are a curated bunch of queers and outsiders, hand-picked by the strict doormen. The club is famous for its inimitable atmosphere of acceptance; the enforced sticker-over-camera policy essential for the space’s safety.
An excerpt from an interview I conducted with DJ and Fashion Editor Klaus Stockhausen for Dapper Dan issue 18 Klaus Stockhausen was a resident DJ at the nightclub Front, a gay underground space specialising in disco, proto-house, and making people sweat. That Stockhausen recognised the significance of Berghain for gay clubbing in this era, was an indubitable cultural seal of approval.
The Taboo Family (photo: Nick Knight), in a decade of i-Deas, the encyclopedia of the 80’s, compiled and produced by i-D magazine An image that captures the ebullience of the Taboo nightclub, as hosted by performer and designer Leigh Bowery. ‘Taboo was both revolutionary and a throwback to the mixed gay hedonism of Billy’s, BLITZ and CHA CHA’s’ - a decade of i-Deas, the encyclopedia of the 80’s.
Anal House Meltdown: Frieze Special, 6 October 2018 (photo: Roxanne Lee) A night that saw Prem Sahib, Eddie Peake, George Henry Longly and Princess Julia bless our ears with their eclectic sets.
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