Homepleasure–Homopleasure exhibition opening & Typhoon book launch
Schedule
Fri Sep 27 2024 at 04:00 pm to 11:00 pm
Location
Læderstræde 15, 1201 København K, Danmark | Copenhagen , SK
꩜ ?????????? ???? ?? ?? ??? ?? ??????? ꩜After two years in the making, Tofu Collective presents a dual event marking the Danish launch of the publication ‘Typhoon – In the Eye of Taiwan’s New Artistic Whirlwinds’ and the opening Taipei-based artist Manbo Key’s exhibition ‘Homepleasure–Homopleasure’ that gathers his queer circle of artist friends who have all played a significant role in bringing the publication to life.
Following our launch in Taipei last May and a lengthy three-month journey by container ship, we are excited to finally invite you to a festive celebration in Tofu Space, as well as the courtyard and banquet hall of Gammel Strand, together with our co-publisher, dmp editions, and our beloved friends from Taiwan! Join us for a night of hard-hitting DJ sets and live performances, along with a spread of drinks and food.
The publication and a curated collection of original works by a diverse array of promising artists showcased in our publication will be available for purchase.
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Gammel Strand’s banquet hall (Typhoon party):
16-18: Tofu Residents b2b (DJ-set)
18-19: Xiexie3lla (performance)
19-21: Kemical SistaS (DJ-set)
21-23: Cloudy Ku (DJ-set)
Tofu Space (exhibition and works for sale):
16-18: Kemical SistaS (DJ-set)
18–21: Tofu Residents b2b (DJ-set)
Gammel Strand’s courtyard (chill zone):
16-21: Oysters by Østersbuddet
16-21: Empanadas by Hay Pan Copenhagen
16-23: Bar by Gammel Strand
Free beers sponsored by Blanc for the first guests!
˚ʚ♡ɞ˚ Entrance through Læderstræde 15 ˚ʚ♡ɞ˚
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A fateful day in 1994 remains etched into the memory of Manbo Key, when he discovered his father’s self-made tape collection titled Homepleasure, revealing numerous recorded sexual encounters with unknown men in their family home in a conservative village in Taiwan. While coming to terms with his own queer identity, Manbo’s father passed down his collection to him which has since evolved into the award-winning ongoing series Father’s Videotapes juxtaposing recollections and subtle exposures of his father’s secret letters, sex tapes, and objects with Manbo’s own contemporary portrayals of Taiwan as a burgeoning queer haven, especially since it became the first nation in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage in 2019.
From the club scene to the fashion industry and the art world, Manbo Key has over the years become a unifying figure in Taipei through his impactful artistic practice and the art collective Homopleasure, fostering discussions and creating spaces around sexuality and gender, all aimed at achieving more liberated and inclusive futures. In Homepleasure–Homopleasure, Manbo presents a complex narrative of intergenerational queerness that bridges his father’s bedroom and the seductive nightlife of Taipei, depicted through a selection of works by Homopleasure members, collectively expressing a place that both binds them together and sets them free.
The exhibition is supported by S. C. Van Fonden, Statens Kunstfond and The National Culture and Arts Foundation Taiwan
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The hybrid identity of Taiwan is its unique quality, but it is the same complexity that also poses a string of challenges for the largely unrecognised nation-state and its meeting with the international art scene. Concurrently, a storm of geopolitical tension brews over the island, which further overshadows important nuances. In the midst of the eye, a generation of trailblazing artists navigates the art scene that mirrors the dynamics and multifariousness of an island nation in flux, superseding cultural barriers, carving out interstice, and maintaining the continuous progression of identity.
To grasp some of these powerful whirlwinds, Tofu Collective and Taipei-based publishing house dmp editions has followed a diverse array of exceptional artists into the epicentre of Taiwan’s contemporary art scene. Typhoon – In the Eye of Taiwan’s New Artistic Whirlwinds airs an eclectic capture of the streams that flow, intersect, and diverge within the many layers of Taiwanese art circles, through diverse portrayals of both promising younger artists and heavyweight practitioners. From inside and outside perspectives, we move through the sheer depth and variety of identities, fluctuating between an abundance of dichotomies, between local and global, natural and artificial, body and mind, past and future.
The publication is realised with generous support by S. C. Van Fonden, Ny Carlsbergfondet and Grosserer L. F. Foghts Fond.