Andrés Jaque — Photo © Miguel de Guzman
On display at COME CLOSER
Intimate Strangers (installation view) - Photo © Léonard Pongo
Intimate Strangers, 2016
Take a look inside the head office of Grindr, the first dating app to put homosexual men in touch with each other. Most profiles are very carefully constructed. You can be an online character that does or doesn't match who you really are. The app seems like a safe space for LGBT emancipation, also in countries where homosexuality is illegal. But intolerant governments can also use the app to track down users…
Continuous viewing, duration: 26 mins. Unfortunately not accessible with pushchair or for people in a wheelchair.
Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation, Transspecies Kitchen — foto © Studio Pramudiya
Transspecies Kitchen, 2022
We eat, digest and decompose. You also find these essential processes in the geological evolutions of our planet. In Transspecies Kitchen (2022), these are combined, allowing us to reconnect with the planet. In a one-off activation, the artist invites you to come and taste what is being prepared in the kitchen, using fermentation. Feel how cooking and eating brings people together. With each other and with the environment.
In collaboration with Natalie (Elder-Lab). This performance is sold out.
Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation, Transspecies Kitchen, 2022 © The Artist - Photo: Léonard Pongo
Transspecies Kitchen, 2022
We eat, digest and decompose. You also find these essential processes in the geological evolutions of our planet. In Transspecies Kitchen (2022), these are combined, allowing us to reconnect with the planet. The kitchen is made of stone, the result of a natural earth formation. The meal is prepared using fermentation: micro-organisms transform food into energy, in the same way as our own digestive process.
- Continuous viewing
- Please do not touch