Something Like Emotional Architecture & The Queer Ruin w/ Bitsy Knox feat. Alex Turgeon

For this very special 35th episode of Something Like, I invited the artist, poet, educator, and very dear friend Alex Turgeon to speak about the emotional potential of architecture, the queerness of ruins and decay, and his solo exhibition at Ashley Berlin, Interiors. To quote curator Stephanie Holl-Trieu’s text for his exhibition, “In Interiors, Alex Turgeon traces the structure of the feeling of home. A table becomes a landscape with windows to the interior, and a screen looming over the table performs as the sky. The sky says, Though sticks and stones may house my bones / Words will always stack together/ / To make the four walls of which they frame / And call me poetry by name.”

Unlike other episodes, I don’t unpack any of the music played on this show this time, in order to devote as much time as possible to Alex’s brilliance. With that in mind, email me if you want more info on any of the music or works that I’ve played here.

• Learn more about Interiors and the programme at Ashley Berlin here: https://ashleyberlin.de/
• Learn more about Alex Turgeon’s work here: http://alexturgeon.com/
• As always, Something Like’s jingle comes courtesy of the brilliant Roger 3000.