Lauren Bakst

While in residence through The Kitchen at Queenslab, Lauren Bakst will develop a new performance project titled after summer, or not in the kitchen (the bed, the bathroom, the dance floor and other spaces). Lessons from encounters; a love story between desire and abjection; movement that emerges from contact: after summer is a map of and for an everyday erotics.

In Bakst’s words: “after summer begins where my previous work More Problems with Form left off, which involved my mother and I reenacting a scene from Chantal Akerman’s 1978 film Les Rendez-Vous d’Anna. In rehearsing, performing, and filming this scene together, we were able to have an encounter that would not have been possible with the scripts we already have for relating to each other. after summer begins with the question of what that gesture opened up—a re-orientation of the erotic from the most intimate (in bed with mom) to refractions of an expanded social field. I am paying attention to the unexpected, inopportune, and inappropriate formations of intimacy that emerge in minor social and psychic spaces. What forms of unknowing do these encounters propose? This is the landscape of my desire, and I will try to move through it.”

Curated by Matthew Lyons.