CRUISING
WET Collective, Sylva Storm, Charlie Rydzewski, Cornelius Wong
19–23 Mar 2025
‘We may never touch queerness, but we can feel it as the warm illumination of a horizon imbued with potential ... an ideality that can be distilled from the past and used to imagine a future’.
Drawn from Jose Esteban Monoz’s Cruising Utopia, in this show Cruising becomes a methodology for creative discovery. One that touches on the imprint of queerness; in intimacy, lewdness, the mass of the body, of collective bodies, in laughter and humour. Cruising is a discovery in play and collective forms of making. Spread over several days this work is part food service, performance, visual art exhibition and peep show WET is a collective investigating the body in public space, desire, and hospitality through performance practice. We are a collective that supports each other in the creation of new, experimental and often ephemeral works with a focus on socially engaged practice. The filthy WET are artists: Sylva Storm, Charlie Rydzewski and Cornelius Wong.
Schedule for Performances:
Thursday 20th March from 6:15-8:00pm
(ARRIVE BY 6:00PM)
Saturday 22nd March from 2pm
Sunday 23rd March from 12-6pm
CRUISING is a sexy, juicy, silly, soggy, playful exploration of the queer body, hospitality and the illicit. Come eat cum, spy on us and hold us as we cruise through matter.
Please Note: this performance/installation may contain nudity and adult content.
This program takes place on the land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. We recognise that sovereignty was never ceded - this land is stolen land. We pay respects to Wurundjeri Elders, past, present and emerging, to the Elders from other communities and to any other Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders who might encounter or participate in the program.
WET CollectiveWET is a collective investigating the body in public space, desire, and hospitality through performance practice. We are a collective that supports each other in the creation of new, experimental and often ephemeral works with a focus on socially engaged practice. The filthy WET are artists: Sylva Storm, Charlie Rydzewski and Cornelius Wong
Sylva Storm is an interdisciplinary artist working and living on Wurundjeri, Woi-wurrung Land. Their practice is interested in the body as a collective site. A personal archive visited by desire, collective and queer historiographies, humour and labour. Using their body as a consistent link, they work through mediums of performance, video and painting. They recently completed a residency at Chateau Orquevaux (FR) and the SUPERMASSIVE mentorship with APHIDs(AU). This year they will be completing a residency with artist Amrita Hepi at her studio in Bangkok.
Charlie Rydzewski is a Polish artist based in Naarm. Their participatory practice aims to facilitate a space for community. Working in expanded performance, engagement projects, food installations, book making, performance workshops, and experimental film. They completed a residency with the Center for Contemporary Art 2023 (UK). Selected recent exhibitions include Distro: The Reading Room at Muine Bheag Arts (IRE), Wet in New York Original Matters at Changing Room Gallery (AU).
Cornelius Wong is a Malaysian Chinese artist currently based in Naarm. Their practice is a process of contemplation, where the acts of making, performing, and sharing are used as a means of self-confrontation. They address notions of power and vulnerability by placing the body in different contexts. They are the recipient of the Kings Exhibition Award 2024. Recent exhibitions include Jacuzzi at The Nicholas Building (AU), Wet in New York at Revolu Gallery (USA), and Intersections at Testing Grounds (AU).
Please Note: this performance/installation may contain nudity and adult content.