Ibai Gorriti: 'Futch Yatching Club'

On the occasion of their residency with NKF Sweden (together with Hangar in Barcelona and support from Institut Ramon Llull), Ibai Gorriti will be bringing back FUTCH club* as an experimental and very temporary autonomous zone where to share the writings and ideas they have been working on over their time in Stockholm, along revisiting thoughts on collectivities and so-called safe spaces. This evening gathering situation, disguised as a Yatching Summit, aims to function as an invitation for the exchange of desires, struggles and strategies around economic precarity and planetarily survival through the lens of “queer”, “crip” and “mad” body politics, and the potentials of textuality to unsettle such normativity.

Ibai Gorriti works in the fields of design and contemporary arts, researching the gentrification of dissent, the notion of safe spaces and the construction of sanity in the West. Their practices have focused on critical institutionalities, participatory instances and performances. During COVID-19, they ran FUTCH club, a project space in Raval for artists and activists to gather. They have previously collaborated with DIS and Mohammad Salemy, as well as the research group Art, Architecture and New Materialisms. Gorriti was a guest curator at the 5th Barcelona Queer Festival and has participated in public programs at Tate Exchange (London), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), documenta fifteen (Kassel) and Centre Pompidou (Paris), among others.

This event is part of the program of activations for the exhibition Vaginal Davis: HOFPFISTEREI. More information about the exhibition here and about the program here.

This exhibition has been developed in collaboration with Moderna Museet in Stockholm, as part of the exhibition Vaginal Davis: Magnificent Product. The museum presents a major retrospective of Vaginal Davis’s work while, in parallel, Index is the locus for research on her text production. Vaginal Davis’s solo exhibition Magnificent Product is initiated by Moderna Museet and extends across several locations in Stockholm: Moderna Museet, Nationalmuseum, Accelerator, Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Tensta konsthall and MDT (Moderna Dansteatern). Each institution highlights a different aspect of Vaginal Davis’s expansive practice.

We thank Moderna Museet, the Spanish Embassy in Stockholm, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Terra Foundation for American Art for their support.