Cruising Ship (2024)
Hošek Contemporary, Berlin
'Cruising Ship' is a sound and visual art installation with solo performance by Alexey Kokhanov on board of “Heimatland”. Using the sounds of mating nightingales, as well as recycled objects and documentary photographs, Alexey explores the idea of queer cruising as a strategy of claiming and inhabiting spaces. How does sexual desire shape and reshape an environment? 'Cruising Ship' is dedicated to LGBT+ people who face discrimination in the world today.
Video documentation of performance: https://youtu.be/D18oV5X4aH4
Credits: "Hot Night" by Eillen Myles; "Sonnet 102" Trio Meridian, music by M. Tariverdiev; "Nightingale" Julee Cruise by David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti.
Pictures: (c) Mari Vass
General view
“Happy birthday” epoxid resin plate with integrated found objects (30x40cm). Photo by Ksenia Lapina
“Fuck me all year long 2024” sugar plate with found objects. (20x30 cm)
“Pick up Tempo Don't use hooks” epoxid resin plate with found objects (20x30 cm)
Wooden board (30x40 cm) with sugar plate and “Young boy with lilias” by Wilhelm von Gloeden
Performance view