DO YOU FEEL PLEASURE?
Clem is an entirely fictional character obsessed with the external conditions that keep re-animating its body. It is a hungry consumer of toxic histories that keep circulating the world as ghostly repositories, yearning to eat them up and spit them back out into the world as counter narratives and at times malfunctioning corporeal sequences.
Clem keeps reiterating, and while recently contemplating, it fell into a rabbit hole on the www, geeking out on the celebrated American composer Charles Ives and how his homophobia slipped into his music. Eager to find pleasure in the unpleasurable, Clem have decided to perform a kind of dissident, dramatic, and weirdly homoerotic lap dance for the ghost of Ives, materializing in a soundtrack consisting of his songs The Unanswered Question, Processional. Let There Be Light, and Piano Sonata No. 2, Concord, Mass. It is a slow erotic meditation, dedicated to the pleasure of Clem and the displeasure of Ives, imagining his frowning specter, upset about the corruption of his compositions.
DATES
2024
NADA - New Art Dealers, New York City (US) August 15th - 20th
Centrale Fies, Dro (IT) August 1 - 4
2023
II Magazine - Una Notte Sola, Rome (IT) December 9th
Dutch Art Institute at PAF, St. Erme (FR) March 3rd
