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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20210625
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20210711
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URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/cbs-gallery-i-dont-want-you-to-t
 hank-me-you-can-just-garth-gratrix-chester-tenneson/
SUMMARY:CBS Gallery: CBS Gallery: “I don't want you to thank me. You can 
 just...” - Garth Gratrix & Chester Tenneson
DESCRIPTION:Exhibition Dates: 25 June – 10 July\nBookings: https://cbsgal
 lery.co.uk/\n\nThe exhibitions title is taken from from the song Hanky Pan
 ky by Madonna (1990)\; offering up a playfully seductive introduction for 
 the artists first ever collaboration together. Both queer artists grew up 
 through the 80's/90's during Section 28- a period of censorship and remova
 l of LGBTQIA+ lives and voices. The exhibition explores relations between 
 body and object\, language and physicality\, things and space.\n\nGarth's 
 work explores language and material in a way that remains slippery\, curio
 us and experimental. Often in collaboration as much as solo\, the artist s
 eeks to remain open and in allyship to experiences of change and differenc
 e. Alongside an inevitable flirtation with the kitschly camp- given the ar
 tists seaside origin and experiences of being peripheral and clandestine.\
 n\nChester’s work explores the absurdity within the norms of institution
 al design and authority\, examining the idiosyncratic nature of commonplac
 e objects and language. His position as a transgender man is important\; h
 is artworks frequently reflect his experience as an outsider from everyday
  norms and language\, which have a cisgender base. His artworks question t
 he absurdity of these everyday norms\, playing with gendered gestures and 
 objects\, as well as more general rules and instructions which command our
  everyday experience and public placing.\n\nCommon ground between the arti
 sts is that of humour\, formal play and combination of everyday objects an
 d lived experiences. Both artists work across different media.\n\nChester 
 and Garth have recently been selected to be part of the PIVOT programme\, 
 supported by Castlefield Gallery and The Bluecoat.\n\nThe exhibition is
  funded as part of Garth's 'In Collaboration with...' series\, seeing four
  collaborations undertaken with queer artists across the UK\, supported th
 rough Arts Council Englands\, National Lottery Project Grant programme.\ng
 arthgratrix.com\nchestertenneson.com
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LOCATION:CBS Gallery\, 63 Blundell Street\, Liverpool\, L1 0AJ\, Liverpool\
 , United Kingdom
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