andrey bogush
WORKS
Homopticum
by Andrey Bogush & Juan Pablo Cámara
Premiered Kiasma Theatre, Helsinki, Finland, 2025
Tanzhaus Zürich, 2025 (work in progress)
Sophiensaele, Berlin, 2026
Inspired by Paul B. Preciado’s Pornotopia, Homopticum examines popular culture and architecture as producers of pornographic technologies.
Borrowing from the vocabulary of peep shows, dark rooms and matchmaking apps, choreographer Juan Pablo Cámara and visual artist Andrey Bogush devise the Homopticum, a speculative choreography where discipline and repetition meet the monstrous, yielding control, surrender, and the potential for liberation. In a dystopian take on time and self-surveillance, across the mundane and spectacular, they examine the materiality of subjectivity and the art of fabulation, questioning homosexual masculinity within the object-human relation.
The performance was part of the programme for Kiasma’s Collection Exhibition Rock, paper, scissors.
Concept & choreography: Juan Pablo Cámara and Andrey Bogush
Performance: Juan Pablo Cámara
Light design: Joseph Wegmann
Sound design: Mauro Guz Bejar, Juan Pablo Cámara
Costume design: Lenard Schnitzler
Outside Eye: Luis Garay, Zander Porter, Mathias Ringgenberg
In collaboration with: Kiasma Theatre
Supported by Tanzhaus Zurich, Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Finnish Cultural Foundation, Tapiola Artist studios, DIORAMA Berlin
https://kiasma.fi/en/performances/andrey-bogush-juan-pablo-camara-homopticum/
Speculative Absences as Queer Care
FIX: Care and Repair, Design Museum and the Museum of Finnish Architecture, Helsinki, Finland
Commissioned by Design Museum and the Museum of Finnish Architecture
26.04. – 31.12.2024
curatorial intervention with invited artists Max Hannus and Ville Laurinkoski, and museum archives
including works from
Design Museum and the Museum of Finnish Architecture and Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki
Jessica Andrey Bogush's work is an installation and a kind of alternative museum collection. Bogush examines the gaps and silences within the collections of the Museum of Finnish Architecture and Design Museum. What objects does the museum choose to include in its collection, and what does it leave out?
Friends of Queer History, Helsinki, Finland
List of works:
House mouse, taxidermy animal, 1940s, Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki, Luomus collection
Patient's wardrobe, Paimio Sanatorium, designed by Aino Marsio-Aalto & Alvar Aalto, 1930s, Design Museum and the Museum of Finnish Architecture collection
HIV test kit, Labsystems, 1990s, Design Museum and the Museum of Finnish Architecture collection
Marilyn, lamp, Mikko Paakkanen, 2008, Design Museum and the Museum of Finnish Architecture collection
Memory House, Max Hannus, 2024, commissioned work
Ixe, Ville Laurinkoski, 2023, with mattress from the artist's home
Cat cut out (The living web of care is not one where every giving involves taking, nor every taking will involve giving*), Jessica Andrey Bogush, 2024, commissioned work
after María Puig de la Bellacasa, Matters of Care, 2017
15x20 cm drawings, under the glass, Jessica Andrey Bogush, commissioned work:
Method (after Kathy Acker), 2024
Tools and supports (for Kaija), 2024
Proposal for disciplined territory (for Rosa), 2024
Proposal for labyrinth (for Carol), 2024
Three sisters
25 June – 10 August 2023
Sinaida Michalskaja
Jessica Andrey Bogush
Shahin Zarinbal, Berlin
exhibition by Jessica Andrey Bogush and Sinaida Michalskaja
Jessica Andrey Bogush shows drawings and installations in which the fantastic and the familiar are indistinguishable. Using circular materials and flaky compositions, they tackle and tickle the contemporary state of images and objects, offering actions of interspecies appreciation. Their practice mixes surrealist techniques of surprise and the grotesque with gestures of care and consideration.
Sinaida Michalskaja’s practice explores the potential of paradoxes as she balances the relationships between objects, materials and meanings. She activates objects with deep-rooted historical, linguistic or spiritual meanings by allowing them to perform their potentialities through support structures, interventional adornment, and situations incorporating their physical and non-physical properties.
Jessica Andrey Bogush and Sinaida Michalskaja have been collaborating since 2018, producing the two-person exhibition Zwei Schwestern at Zarinbal Khoshbakht, Cologne in 2020, and the collaborative works Wrong hole (using ketamine femmunism to foster derealisation), 2021, and Rosa Butterfly (from keta femmunism to somatic interspecies communism), 2022.
https://shahinzarinbal.com/exhibitions-2023-dreischwestern/
On proposals, 2014
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