About the exhibition
Remember when you were a kid, building homes with anything you could find, making huts with blankets and chairs, and being protected from the outside world? Then imagine being back in such an intimate and safe space, with an uncanny yet warm twist. Now you have a blurry idea of the exhibition built by Grazia Gallo, Jessie Tam, Sirah Artist, and Madeline Swainhart. These four artists organically merged their installations—a hair salon, trash babies, befriending geese, and alternative nuclear family representations—to bring you with love and tenderness into claiming space and enjoying queered chosen families.
From the 15th to the 24th of June, Squish invites you to Creating Homes at WORM, a hybrid programme built around an exhibition sharing queer perspectives on intimate affinities. Offering an intimate space to enjoy artworks, drink coffee and read local zines, the exhibition presents alternative ways to belong, focusing on chosen families. Besides its regular opening times, the gallery-café in S/ASH welcomes various activities such as workshops, performances, and a beauty salon; extending on radio WORM on the 18th, in UBIK for an evening of independent films on the 24th, and to WORM for a club and performance night on the 16th.
If you bring a picture, a kid's drawing, or anything you want to put on our family wall, you’ll get unlimited tea and coffee for your time in the exhibition space.
Let’s redefine family together as people who love and trust you, the ones who make you grow, think, and feel safe. People you enjoy fighting with and fighting for.
Exhibition opening times: 15/06 16:00-22:30, 16/06 14:00-23:30, 17/06 14:00-19:00, 18/06 14:00-19:00, 22/06 14:00-19:00, 23/06 14:00-19:00, 24/06 14:00-00:00
Beauty salon opening times: 16/06 16:00-22:30, 18/06 14:00-17:00, 23/06 16:00-19:00
Events: 15/06 16:00-22:30 exhibition opening, 16/06 23:00-05:00 club night, 18/06 19:00-21:00 Taal café (by Queer Rotterdam), 18/06 18h-20h Radio WORM (sound piece + interview with Leon Clowes), 22/06 19:00-21:00 Boardgame night (by Queer Rotterdam), 23/06 19:30-21:30 Connectivity event (by Queer Rotterdam), 24/06 20:30-22:00 Squish Movie Camp
Address: Boomgaardsstraat 71, 3012 XA Rotterdam
Opening event
We have the pleasure of opening these 10 days of exhibition with a zine workshop from Creative Womxn Rotterdam, a performative dinner organised by Anna Schlooz, a performance from Judy Young, and a pop-up hair salon from Grazia Gallo.
16:00 Door Open
17:00-19:00 Zine workshop by Creative Womxn Rotterdam
19:00-20:30 Dining (performative dinner) by Anna Schlooz
20:45-21:00 Clown rituals (performance) by Judy Young
20:30-22:00 Hair salon by Grazia Gallo
