Justin Vivian Bond, Fall of the House of Whimsy. Installation view
PARTICIPANT INC presents The Fall of the House of Whimsy, the first solo exhibition of Justin Vivian Bond, including paintings, photographs, and installations incorporating elements of Bond’s former Second Avenue loft, soon-to-be demolished. A piano, record player, couch, and vanity, among other personal effects, create an intimate context for Bond’s delicate pencil and watercolor portraits of friends, lovers, radical faeries. As well, it serves as a space in which impromptu performances can occur. The scripted environment of the exhibition is mirrored in Bond’s photographs of the former loft, providing glimpses of life in this House of Whimsy. Unlike Bond’s solitary childhood imaginings of it, this now placeless dream house is populated by whimsical/subversive figures, rendered in Bond’s portraits.
Thursday, November 10, 8 pm
For Performa 11
Full Moon Tranifestation Circle with Justin Vivian Bond and FriendsThursday, December 1, 2011,
8:30pm screening, performance at 10pmJim Hodges, Carlos Marques da Cruz, and Encke King
Video screening with performance by Justin Vivian Bond
Distributed for 2011 World AIDS Day/Day With(out) Art by Visual AIDS
Justin Vivian Bond, Fall of the House of Whimsy. Installation view
Justin Vivian Bond, Fall of the House of Whimsy. Installation view
Justin Vivian Bond, Cat Boy, 2011. Watercolor and pencil on paper
Justin Vivian Bond, Nuh-uh, 2010. Watercolor and pencil on paper
Justin Vivian Bond, Sammy Jo, 2001. Watercolor and pencil on paper
