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black carnation: case study no. 2
konstantin zhukov curated by goh wei hao5.12-14.12
Black Carnation: Case Study No. 2 explores the first gay parties in Latvia, organised after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and unfolding against a backdrop of political upheaval and economic uncertainty of 1990s. Among the parties referenced in the video installation is one held at the Museum of Medicine in Riga. Within the museum’s corridors, surrounded by medical instruments once used to classify and pathologise queer bodies, partygoers carved out a fragile world of freedom and connection — improvising, as they danced, a new language of intimacy. Black Carnation: case study No. 2 brings these places into dialogue, collapsing the distance between Riga and Camberwell, between the 1990s and the present.