Display of Affection

Artist: Luke George

Ongoing installation series (2018-current)

The installation and intervention series explores queer social choreographies and the queering of public and private spaces. Luke George considers the fragility and temporality of queer intimacies - glimpsing traces of bodies lingering and loitering in space and time, non-verbal dances of anticipation, weaving desire-lines through unsuspecting spaces - and the potential for different types of masculinities. The attention is on the perspective of the sub/ject (‘bottom’) and their gaze back at the viewer. Luke’s role and responsibility as Rigger is to collaborate with his sub/ject, supporting and sustaining them, seeing to their needs and desires, as well as his own.

No.1 - SLING (2018)
Sydney WorldPride, Unravelling Queerly Exhibition, Australian Design Centre, Feb-Mar 2023
Midsumma Festival 2018, Company of Men Exhibition, Tacit Galleries, Jan 2018

No.2 - PLANT (2020)
Melbourne Fringe Festival, BROLGA, Joel Bray Dance, The Substation, Oct 2023)
Carriageworks, Nights - CONSENT, Aug 2023
Midsumma Festival 2020, Company of Men Exhibition, Club80 Cruising Club, Jan 2020

No.3 - GOWN (2021)
Now or Never Festival, Royal Exhibition Building, Aug 2024
National Gallery of Victoria, Nights, Feb-Apr 2023
Midsumma Festival, Temperance Hall, April 2021

No.4 - HOLE (2022)
Sydney WorldPride, Unravelling Queerly Exhibition, Australian Design Centre, Feb-Mar 2023
Craft Contemporary, Hope St Radio, Collingwood Yards, Oct-Nov 2022
Thotful Exhibition, The Bearded Tit, Aug-Oct 2022

No 5. PUPPY (2024)
Pet Shop, Craft Victoria, Mar-May 2024