Glory Hole is a participatory performance art installation in which an anonymous artist adorns visitors’ hands through a hole in a wall. It is part of an ongoing series of theatrical experiments exploring self-adornment, audience agency, and the transgender body. Glory Hole plays with risk and consent, relishes mystery, and invokes taboo sexuality (queer cruising culture, public sex, anonymous sex, and domination/submission).
Visitors encounter a panel, styled like a tiled bathroom wall, with a 5-inch hole in its center. Signage invites a visitor to stick their arm through the hole. An anonymous artist sits on the other side of the panel, unseen by visitors, with an inventory of accessories. When an arm comes through, the artist adorns it, then nudges it back through the hole, ending the encounter. Visitors may leave with whatever they are given.
Under what conditions do we trust strangers with our bodies? What is it like to surrender control to a transgender body? How does it feel to be the penetrating agent but not the one in control? What accessories make us feel comfortable, legible, and desirable in our bodies?
PAST PRESENTERS
ChaShaMa
Wonderville + Brooklyn Community Pride Center (Exhibition Winner)
ART/NY
New York Neo-Futurists
Visitors encounter a panel, styled like a tiled bathroom wall, with a 5-inch hole in its center. Signage invites a visitor to stick their arm through the hole. An anonymous artist sits on the other side of the panel, unseen by visitors, with an inventory of accessories. When an arm comes through, the artist adorns it, then nudges it back through the hole, ending the encounter. Visitors may leave with whatever they are given.
Under what conditions do we trust strangers with our bodies? What is it like to surrender control to a transgender body? How does it feel to be the penetrating agent but not the one in control? What accessories make us feel comfortable, legible, and desirable in our bodies?
PAST PRESENTERS
ChaShaMa
Wonderville + Brooklyn Community Pride Center (Exhibition Winner)
ART/NY
New York Neo-Futurists
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