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Above this new tunnel the Market Tavern once stood. Grey concrete outside. Cherry red, dark, sexy, cruisy, inside.
21:00 - 21:45
Free, no booking required
Nina Wakeford
Join us for a live performance by Blueprints of Hope: Celebrating LGBTQ+ London exhibiting artist Nina Wakeford as she excavates and embodies LGBTQ+ history and proposes it as part of the new transport infrastructure of London.
Featuring words and music, Nina Wakeford stages parts of her book ‘Our Pink Depot: The Gay Underground FLO-N202-236000000-TRK-MST-00002-SAY-HELLO-WAVE-GOODBYE-KEN-NIE-BPS’ (Book Works 2019) and imagines a new Underground tube tunnel built below a demolished gay club as a new part of London queer infrastructure – a ‘pink depot’.
Commissioned by Art on the Underground, Nina was embedded for 18 months with the tunnel engineers, rail laying teams and miners who built the Northern Line extension between Kennington and Battersea Power Station.
The performance collaborators are artist Harilay Rabenjamina, King Frankie, and Alexander Garnett-Scherer (Service Manager, TfL). Based on a project originally commissioned by Art on the Underground.
Supported by Goldsmiths, University of London.
About Nina Wakeford
Nina Wakeford (UK) is an artist based in London and teaches in the Department of Art, Goldsmiths. Her work is often stimulated by the unfinished business of past social movements, and the challenges of revisiting and re-amplifying the energies that these movements created. Her work has been shown at venues including Focal Point Gallery, Southend, Glasgow International, Science Gallery London, The Barbican, Reading International and Stadtgalerie Bern. She is the author of 'Our Pink Depot: The Gay Underground FLO-N202- 236000000-TRK-MST-00002-SAY-HELLO- WAVE-GOODBYE-KEN-NIE-BPS' (Book Works in association with Art on the Underground, 2019).
Nina Wakeford
Join us for a live performance by Blueprints of Hope: Celebrating LGBTQ+ London exhibiting artist Nina Wakeford as she excavates and embodies LGBTQ+ history and proposes it as part of the new transport infrastructure of London.
Featuring words and music, Nina Wakeford stages parts of her book ‘Our Pink Depot: The Gay Underground FLO-N202-236000000-TRK-MST-00002-SAY-HELLO-WAVE-GOODBYE-KEN-NIE-BPS’ (Book Works 2019) and imagines a new Underground tube tunnel built below a demolished gay club as a new part of London queer infrastructure – a ‘pink depot’.
Commissioned by Art on the Underground, Nina was embedded for 18 months with the tunnel engineers, rail laying teams and miners who built the Northern Line extension between Kennington and Battersea Power Station.
The performance collaborators are artist Harilay Rabenjamina, King Frankie, and Alexander Garnett-Scherer (Service Manager, TfL). Based on a project originally commissioned by Art on the Underground.
Supported by Goldsmiths, University of London.
About Nina Wakeford
Nina Wakeford (UK) is an artist based in London and teaches in the Department of Art, Goldsmiths. Her work is often stimulated by the unfinished business of past social movements, and the challenges of revisiting and re-amplifying the energies that these movements created. Her work has been shown at venues including Focal Point Gallery, Southend, Glasgow International, Science Gallery London, The Barbican, Reading International and Stadtgalerie Bern. She is the author of 'Our Pink Depot: The Gay Underground FLO-N202- 236000000-TRK-MST-00002-SAY-HELLO- WAVE-GOODBYE-KEN-NIE-BPS' (Book Works in association with Art on the Underground, 2019).
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 - 21:00 to 21:45
Event North and South Cloisters