andrey bogush
WORKS
Andrey Bogush & Juan Pablo Cámara: Homopticum
Kiasma Theatre, Helsinki, Finland
Premiered 2025
The collaboration between the visual artist and the choreographer is inspired by Paul B. Preciado’s essay “Pornotopia,” which examines popular culture and architecture as producers of pornographic technologies.
Borrowing from the vocabulary of peep shows, dark rooms and matchmaking apps, choreographer Juan Pablo Cámara and visual artist Andrey Bogush devise the Homopticum, a speculative choreography where discipline and repetition meet the monstrous, yielding control, surrender, and the potential for liberation. In a dystopian take on time and self-surveillance, across the mundane and spectacular, they examine the materiality of subjectivity and the art of fabulation, questioning homosexual masculinity within the object-human relation.
The performance is part of the programme for Kiasma’s Collection Exhibition Rock, paper, scissors.
Concept & choreography: Juan Pablo Cámara and Andrey Bogush
Performance: Juan Pablo Cámara
Light design: Joseph Wegmann
Sound design: Mauro Guz Bejar, Juan Pablo Cámara
Costume design: Lenard Schnitzler
Outside Eye: Luis Garay, Zander Porter, Mathias Ringgenberg
In collaboration with: Kiasma Theatre
Supported by Tanzhaus Zurich, Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Finnish Cultural Foundation, Tapiola Artist studios, DIORAMA Berlin
https://kiasma.fi/en/performances/andrey-bogush-juan-pablo-camara-homopticum/
Speculative Absences as Queer Care (an invitation)
FIX: Care and Repair, Design Museum and the Museum of Finnish Architecture, Helsinki, Finland
26.04. – 31.12.2024
curatorial intervention with invited artists Max Hannus and Ville Laurinkoski and museum archives
included collections:
Design Museum and the Museum of Finnish Architecture
Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki
"Jessica Andrey Bogush's work is an installation and a kind of alternative museum collection. Bogush examines the gaps and silences within the collections of the Museum of Finnish Architecture and Design Museum. What objects does the museum choose to include in its collection, and what does it leave out?"
— Friends of Queer History, Helsinki, Finland
Drei Schwestern
25 June – 10 August 2023
Sinaida Michalskaja
Jessica Andrey Bogush
Shahin Zarinbal, Berlin
exhibition by Jessica Andrey Bogush and Sinaida Michalskaja
Jessica Andrey Bogush shows drawings and installations in which the fantastic and the familiar are indistinguishable. Using circular materials and flaky compositions, they tackle and tickle the contemporary state of images and objects, offering actions of interspecies appreciation. Their practice mixes surrealist techniques of surprise and the grotesque with gestures of care and consideration.
Sinaida Michalskaja’s practice explores the potential of paradoxes as she balances the relationships between objects, materials and meanings. She activates objects with deep-rooted historical, linguistic or spiritual meanings by allowing them to perform their potentialities through support structures, interventional adornment, and situations incorporating their physical and non-physical properties.
Jessica Andrey Bogush and Sinaida Michalskaja have been collaborating since 2018, producing the two-person exhibition Zwei Schwestern at Zarinbal Khoshbakht, Cologne in 2020, and the collaborative works Wrong hole (using ketamine femmunism to foster derealisation), 2021, and Rosa Butterfly (from keta femmunism to somatic interspecies communism), 2022.
https://shahinzarinbal.com/exhibitions-2023-dreischwestern/
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