THIS I PROMISE YOU

THIS I PROMISE YOU
Curated by Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay
Presented by Pleasuredome
Sponsored by Vtape
In the Cabaret Space

$8/$5 Members and Students, available at the door

THIS I PROMISE YOU assembles international performance-based video works that herald an alternate future—part utopia, part nightmare—in which dominant structures of gender and sexuality finally collapse beyond the borders of bodies and gestures. While some videos point to the fragile fault lines that are being torn apart as we speak, others propose fantastical visions, realities on the other side, worlds that the artists have decided they will wait for no longer. These videos all seem to make a promise to the viewer: a promise that there is more ahead, a promise that it won’t be long, a promise that we are, in fact, already there.

THIS I PROMISE YOU emerges from the curatorial research that led to Los Angeles-based Zackary Drucker’s simultaneous solo exhibition opening on September 15 at Vtape, and includes Canadian premieres of work by Julika Rudelius, Jacolby Satterwhite, Pascal Lièvre, Mikiki, as well as Drucker & Rhys Ernst. A live performance by Drucker concludes the evening of single-channel video.

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