Overview: In a series of three free events in Casa’s basement, artists are given free rein to install whatever they’d like to reimagine the space - site-specific installs, projects, screen prints, and who knows what. These art happenings are subterranean takeovers that will coincide with showtimes upstairs, Mondays to Wednesdays, for people to wander in and out as they please. The artists invited for this year’s subterranean takeover artists are:
June 5-7 Jean Couteau
June 12-14 Gambletron & Johnny Forever
June 19-21 Et tu, Machine (Alexis O’hara & Atom Cianfarani)
Building on their most recent collaboration, Gambletron and Johnny Forever's newest work Meet Me At The Woodshop explores the erotics of labour and the relationship between the body and its immediate built environment. Sourcing materials, imagery, and sound from their experience in construction, Gambletron and Forever work queer fantasy into the world of quick and dirty home renovation.
The work is an installation activated by several scheduled performances. Gambletron's rumbling house-influenced beats, roughly hewn from a collection of synths and homemade electronics are layered over tones produced via electric musical saw. This sound comes through heavy-duty jobsite radios via multichannel transmission. Meanwhile, Johnny Forever transforms typical home improvement labour into chaotic, precariously executed queer burlesque.
As a queer couple who have spent many years on nightlife scenes and construction sites, the artists are allowing themselves space to flirt with the image of a babely nonbinary handiperson just doing their job while bringing their usual absurdist experiments with technical failure and material decay into the play space/work site.
“Meet me at the Woodshop”: Gambletron & Johnny Forever
Overview: In a series of three free events in Casa’s basement, artists are given free rein to install whatever they’d like to reimagine the space - site-specific installs, projects, screen prints, and who knows what. These art happenings are subterranean takeovers that will coincide with showtimes upstairs, Mondays to Wednesdays, for people to wander in and out as they please. The artists invited for this year’s subterranean takeover artists are:
June 5-7 Jean Couteau
June 12-14 Gambletron & Johnny Forever
June 19-21 Et tu, Machine (Alexis O’hara & Atom Cianfarani)
Building on their most recent collaboration, Gambletron and Johnny Forever's newest work Meet Me At The Woodshop explores the erotics of labour and the relationship between the body and its immediate built environment. Sourcing materials, imagery, and sound from their experience in construction, Gambletron and Forever work queer fantasy into the world of quick and dirty home renovation.
The work is an installation activated by several scheduled performances. Gambletron's rumbling house-influenced beats, roughly hewn from a collection of synths and homemade electronics are layered over tones produced via electric musical saw. This sound comes through heavy-duty jobsite radios via multichannel transmission. Meanwhile, Johnny Forever transforms typical home improvement labour into chaotic, precariously executed queer burlesque.
As a queer couple who have spent many years on nightlife scenes and construction sites, the artists are allowing themselves space to flirt with the image of a babely nonbinary handiperson just doing their job while bringing their usual absurdist experiments with technical failure and material decay into the play space/work site.