Image courtesy of Mathew Parkin and Mason Leaver-Yap.
'I told the participants that I wasn't going to be investigating into who they were specifically. They didn't have to answer authentically. I was interested in who ever they wanted to be when they showed up in front of a camera. That is to say, I was interested in the many "whos" they are, the many personas that they channel or that they occupy.'
Sharon Hayes describing the making of 'Ricerche: three', (2013)
Join Mathew Parkin and Mason Leaver-Yap at The Vintners, a former Glasgow gay bar and imaginary space for staging communal conversation, revisiting queer histories and engaging in discourse on collective identity.
The discussion will be informed and embedded in the context of Sharon Hayes’ Ricerche series of films (2013–ongoing), particularly 'Ricerche: three' (2013) which was filmed with students of the all-women’s college Mount Holyoke in Massachusetts.
Participants assemble as a collaborative learning group to understand constructions of togetherness and individuality. The virtual space of The Vintners serves as a backdrop to a series of guided exercises, short screenings, and conversational prompts. This gathering will instigate the development of a few collective questions, with an eye on recent queer history and its relevance to the here and now.
Mathew Parkin is an artist, writer and home cook mainly working with moving-image, family and friends. They are based in Glasgow and have recently been in residence at Art House, CCA Glasgow and Hospitalfield Arts. Recent public projects have been with LUX Scotland, Tramway, Grand Union and IMT Gallery.
Mason Leaver-Yap works with artists to produce texts, exhibitions, and events. Based in Glasgow and Berlin, they are currently working with Iman Issa, Onyeka Igwe, Lucy McKenzie, Lin+Lam, Andrea Büttner, Renée Green, and Ingrid Pollard.
Sharon Hayes is one of the most influential politically and socially committed artists working in the United States. She has been the subject of retrospectives at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; and Moderna Museet, Stockholm. ‘Ricerche’ is an ongoing project composed of multiple video works that use Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1964 film, ‘Comizi d’amore’ (Love Meetings), as a guidepost and framework for an examination of gender, sexuality and contemporary collective identifications. It continues Hayes’ investigation of the act of public speech, and its intersections with history, politics, activism, queer theory, love and sexuality, through both the collective and the individual voice.
Event Details
An online collective learning group with Mathew Parkin and Mason Leaver-Yap responding to Sharon Hayes’ Ricerche films.
The Vintners was open for one night only and had capacity for 15 people. As an online gay bar it was open to the messiness and solidarity that one would expect IRL. Participants were requested to self-select their participation on that basis.
