HAIL MOON by Matthew van Roden

HAIL MOON by Matthew van Roden

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Collaboration with Tarzan JungleQueen Queer artists Matthew van Roden and Tarzan JungleQueen live in a dark cave where gender is already being recycled into six boxes, maybe more. Each morning they take out the trash, attend to the compost and admire the wiggly worms with their multiple sets of genitals and lack of definition. In their dark cave they build temporary bodies for each other. Bodies that emanate light and exist like reflections on the surface of a lake. Sometimes they fall into the water. Things are always more fluid than they seem, which is something they could not see before they became luna-tics. This water is precious, Narcissus knew it; the lake dancing to the pull of the moon. And when you fall into the love of water, you can no longer stand the deathly sound of drilling. Hail Moon is a projection of their collective love for a future earth that can sustain temporary bodies. Cutting up/together the speech of Aristophanes on the origin of love in Plato’s Symposium, and Adam Vaughan’s 2018 article, Fracking – the reality, the risks and what the future holds published in the Guardian online. Van Roden and JungleQueen embrace the spirit of the cut-up method King, author William S. Burroughs. Bringing these two texts together, queering both and liberating a narrative they collectively share: Don’t frack the Territory, don’t frack the planet. Be like the moon and fall in love with the waters of the earth.

Uploaded 2020-04-23T00:09:40.000Z Wakefield TV Installers