If HAUS PARTY 001 was the experiment that launched our organization, HAUS PARTY 002 was a test of concept to see how high this idea could carry us.
Once again endeavoring to combine the museum and nightclub, HAUS PARTY 002 featured a curated gallery show, live performances, and music by local DJs.
Hosted at GLITCH GALLERY, the event was themed around DISPLACEMENT (partially inspired by our difficulty in finding a venue). Over 100 artists, appreciators, friends, & community members attended our second event.
CURATORIAL STATEMENT
(dis)placement gathers works that interrogate place and placenessness
how environments are made, claimed, lost, and reimagined. Through visual art and sonic landscapes, this exhibition traces the porous boundaries between territory and belonging. Read alongside the queer experience, placemaking is not merely aesthetic but a vital practice of sustaining identity and community.
"Inside" - Xavier Davidson-Brown
"on my way home" - Sheri Moccia
"Roped Boy tied by Mr. R at Rock River #2" - Jamieson Edson
"lambaste" - Cambell McLean
EXHIBITING ARTISTS:
Paula Ayala
Xavier Davidson-Brown
North of the Charles Revue
Jamieson Edson
Matt Meyers
Campbell McLean
Sheri Moccia
Joel Pettigrew
Freddy Thomas
bkrrr.studio
Steve Hoey
a place and time
in addition to our gallery show, HAUS PARTY 002 included two live performances on the theme of Displacement by KANYIN and ACHAZIYAH (a poetry reading and live singing number, respectively).
the show also featured one interactive art piece by bkrrr.studio that encouraged participants to help build a collage that spanned walls, floors, and pedestals.
these elements were curated to cement HAUS PARTY 002 as a one-of-a-kind experience; an evening of art, community, and culture that could only be experienced by engaging in-person with Boston’s creative community.