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Sat 22 Feb, 2.30pm & 4.30pm
Gallery 2
Monday | Closed |
Tuesday | 11am–6pm |
Wednesday | 11am–6pm |
Thursday | 11am–9pm |
Friday | 11am–6pm |
Saturday | 11am–6pm |
Sunday | 11am–6pm |
Access requirements
The Whitechapel Gallery is committed to making all of our events as accessible as possible for every audience member. Please contact access@whitechapelgallery.org if you would like to discuss a particular request and we will gladly discuss with you the best way to accommodate it.
– Information about access on site at the gallery is available here https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/visit/access/
– This includes information about Lift access; Borrowing wheelchairs & seating; Assistance Animals; Parking; Toilets and baby care facilities; Blind & Partially Sighted Visitors; Subtitles and transcripts; British Sign Language (BSL) and hearing induction loops; Deaf Messaging Service (DMS).
About This Event
– This event takes place in the Gallery 2 space at Whitechapel Gallery, located on the ground floor.
– This performance will be repeated twice during the day – the first viewing at 2.30pm and the second viewing at 4.30pm
– You must purchase a ticket to attend the event. Concession tickets are available. If you require a Personal Assistant to support your attendance, we can offer them a seat free of charge, but it must be arranged in advance.
– If the ticket price affects your attendance, please email tickets@whitechapelgallery.org to be added to the guest list (no questions asked, but dependent on availability).
– This event is suitable for those over the age of 16
– We are unable to provide British Sign Language interpretation for this event
– We are unable to provide live closed captioning or CART for this event.
– The performance lasts approximately 1 hour. There are no rest breaks currently scheduled during this event.
Transport
– To the best of our knowledge, there are no planned disruptions to local transport on the date of the event.
– Our nearest train station – Aldgate East Underground (1 min) is not wheelchair accessible. The closest wheelchair accessible stations are Whitechapel (15 min), Shoreditch High Street (15 min) or Liverpool Street (15 min).
– Free parking for Blue Badge holders is available at the top of Osborn Street in the pay and display booths for an unlimited period. Spaces are available on a first come, first served basis.
Live Recording
Please note: we audio record all events for the Whitechapel Gallery Archive and possible future online publication via Soundcloud.
Teasing apart the complex, liminal space between romance and friendship, Puer Deorum’s solo-play hold me while my mind falters uses the cello as a metaphor for sapphic longing and bodily experience.
An adaptation of a durational performance activation of their sculpture 2018-2024 Photo Album at Les Urbaines, Lausanne, Switzerland in December 2024, in this experimental solo play, Puer Deorum yields a cello in an act of exploration, mediating on its physical capabilities through improvised sound and movement.
Through moving image, performance and prose, they draw us close, blurring the lines between romance, friendship, and intimacy.
This performance will be repeated twice during the day – the first viewing at 2.30pm and the second viewing at 4.30pm.
This performance activates Puer Deorum’s exhibition arms blue, knees bare on show at Whitechapel Gallery from Sat 22 to Sun 23 Feb – find out more here.
This performance is presented by Puer Deorum and done in partnership with Oitij-jo.
Puer Deorum is an interdisciplinary artist whose work balances negotiations between weight and ephemerality, touching upon the omnipresent scope of mortality. Drawing out from their cultural context, and referencing psycho/socio political geographies, they question homogenous ideas around the experience of time, see-sawing between monochronic (linear) and polychronic (fluid) methods. Weaving incantations of love and encapsulating embodied feelings, they tease temporalities through endurance and duration, amplifying (inter)personal experiences through dream sequences and interpretive actions.
Selected sharings of their art include: Serendipity Arts Festival (Goa), Les Urbaines (Lausanne), REProduce, Dystopia Biennial (Berlin), Spitalfields Market (London), Hugo Boss (London), Whitechapel Gallery (London) and Instrument Inventors (The Hague). Solo exhibitions: Filet Gallery (London), Quench Gallery (Margate). Selected awards: Set Studio Prize, and Arts Council DYCP Grant. They curated and produced ELO MELO, a multi-media festival in London across Whitechapel Gallery and Toynbee Hall, with Oitij-jo Collective.
Oitij-jo fosters collaboration among creative practitioners to boost British-Bengali interaction globally. Our mission is to drive social and economic progress by connecting cultures, fostering innovative narratives, and celebrating the rich heritage of the Bengali diaspora since 2013.