EVERY MAN’S HOME (IS HIS WIFE’S CASTLE) ~PLUS~ OCEANTALK at DIXON PLACE

Named for one of those terrible pillows you see at HomeGoods, Every Man’s Home (Is His Wife’s Castle) is a bold, performative diptych. Tennis, live-feed cameras, mullets, still life sculpture, and vernacular architecture mount to the cynically graphic and heartbreaking mythology of a male stripper named Brian. Compelled by forms of voyerurism through found media, the dance is an aesthetic riot in conversation with the artist’s own sculptural and photographic vocabulary. Every Man’s Home… is in an attempt to unpack and dissolve uncanny tensions between viewer/viewed, shame/joy, ownership/object by making space for contradiction.

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In OceanTalk, Black Rock High English teachers Laurie Grimes and Beth Shenendoah host a weekly sea-themed talk show with guests and other surprises. Laurie Grimes is the author of the 2008 collection Rocks and Other Things to Throw. Beth was the winner of the 2013 Heartland Women’s Poetry Competition, and you can take her creative writing seminar at the BLCC (Main Street). They are both Michigan natives and love the ocean!