NOTE! The film will be shown at Wiklund Centre’s pop-up-space.
Wiklund Centre, Kauppiaskatu 9, Turku (-1 floor, next to Alko liquor store)
Open 2 August – 31 August 2024 Tue-Sun 12–18.
The interactive version will be shown on 2 August, following that a non-interactive version is on display.
The filmmakers of Sore Throat describe the work as follows:
”Sore Throat is an interactive film that explores the impact of sound overheard through walls and how this has impacted queer people and queer spaces in the Philippines, where the interpretation of sounds is informed by monstrous mythology and the distortions of colonisation and gentrification.
On-screen, the malleable walls of theatrical backdrops struggle to contain either safety or sound. In this world of illusion, monstrosity lingers but cannot be pinned down. Rejection and self-judgement swirl, and music and costume pluck our sole performer from rural Luzon to Manila. The sounds shake certainties in this contested world.”
Critical Gallery brings Scottish film and media art to Turku in August 2024, exhibiting two works with a focus on black / POC culture, gender diversity, experiences of sexual minorities – and experiences and status of people who deviate from the white heteronormative standard.
Rhys Hollis & working group’s (Andrea Baker, Divine Tasinda, Kheanna Walker) film titled OMOS (2022) will be screened at Critical Gallery. The location of Adam Castle & David Bugarin’s interactive video work Sore Throat / Magang Lalamunan (2023) is the pop-up-space at the Wiklund Centre.
Both works are produced by the queer cultural centre POLLYANNA (https://pollyanna.org.uk/) who describe their practice as follows:
“Across cabaret, film and arts projects, we aim to celebrate LGBTQ+ performers, support artists in testing out new ideas, and create spaces that welcome communities to forge connections and be inspired to be creative.”
https://pollyanna.org.uk/Sore-Throat
Thanks to MeloDrama Company, Ismo Salonen and Master Saukkonen for supporting the installation of Sore Throat and making it happen!
Thanks to Sebastian Ziegler, technician, for the design and installation of the AV technology of the work!
Thanks also to Wiklund Centre for providing a pop-up exhibition space for the presentation of Sore Throat.