Exhibitions
Bog Idol
Bog Idol is a celebration of queer memory, mythology, artefact, and alternative archiving, explored through the metaphor of the peat bog.
OOPARTs presents Bog Idol, a collaborative exhibition and series of events taking place at KIT FORM in November.
Opening ritual: Friday 22nd Nov, 6:00pm - 10:00pm
Closing ritual: Sunday 1st Dec, 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Bog Idol is a celebration of queer memory, mythology, artefact, and alternative archiving, explored through the metaphor of the peat bog, across sculpture, sound and performance. The exhibition centres around the bog as a transitional, queer space of ritual and their remarkable ability to preserve, from bog bodies to ritual artefacts.
The exhibition will open with a ritual on Friday 22nd November, creating a fertile space to manifest safer queer futures and create an archive of Bristol’s current queer reality. Positioning the peat bog as a form of organic archiving, the exhibition will become a space to gather queer realities Inviting visitors to contribute stories and ephemera and to create a time capsule which will be interned at the end of the exhibition; the Closing Ritual on the 1st December.
The exhibition will take place over 10 days at KIT FORM, Jamaica Street, Stokes Croft, Bristol. Opening on Friday 22nd with performances, followed by workshops on Sunday 24th November, before concluding with an event on Sunday 1st December.
OOPARTs is a platform for collaborations by Bristol based artists Ben Hartley & Buoys Buoys Buoys. This project was made possible by funding from the Bristol City Council Originators Fund, part of the Cultural Investment Fund.
Opening ritual: Friday 22nd Nov, 6:00pm - 10:00pm
Closing ritual: Sunday 1st Dec, 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Bog Idol is a celebration of queer memory, mythology, artefact, and alternative archiving, explored through the metaphor of the peat bog, across sculpture, sound and performance. The exhibition centres around the bog as a transitional, queer space of ritual and their remarkable ability to preserve, from bog bodies to ritual artefacts.
The exhibition will open with a ritual on Friday 22nd November, creating a fertile space to manifest safer queer futures and create an archive of Bristol’s current queer reality. Positioning the peat bog as a form of organic archiving, the exhibition will become a space to gather queer realities Inviting visitors to contribute stories and ephemera and to create a time capsule which will be interned at the end of the exhibition; the Closing Ritual on the 1st December.
The exhibition will take place over 10 days at KIT FORM, Jamaica Street, Stokes Croft, Bristol. Opening on Friday 22nd with performances, followed by workshops on Sunday 24th November, before concluding with an event on Sunday 1st December.
OOPARTs is a platform for collaborations by Bristol based artists Ben Hartley & Buoys Buoys Buoys. This project was made possible by funding from the Bristol City Council Originators Fund, part of the Cultural Investment Fund.
