Oliver Doe

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Oliver Doe explores queer communication through varying levels of coding and abstraction. Research into use of colour, gesture, and other non-verbal lexicons as coded languages ​​​​​​for cruising or signaling identity is central to this work, as well as the queer possibilities of abstraction within verbal language. With these works they are investigating Queer Linguistics and its (de)construction; queer uses of existing language; and abstracted and queered modes of interpersonal (and societal) communication. Considering repetition, indexing, code-switching and citation as the building blocks of (queer) language, their works modulate and bend these foundations to highlight the mobility and malleability of language in queer use. Doe's recent research has been focused on linguistic abstraction as a performative mode that can both construct and deconstruct the possibilities of queer identity categories, communicating desire or identity beyond language as we expect it.

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    • This is Reality: And it was but a chat away

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 08-07-2022 t/m 16-07-2022
    • In samenwerking met: Piet Zwart Institute, WORM, MAMA, TENT
    • Locatie: S/ash Gallery, Showroom MAMA, UBIK, Rotterdam
    • A real chat is hard to come by. Trust is in short supply. But trust is needed to get a chat going, and let it generate what may qualify as social reality. Reality is trembling. Where desire, grief, and power are at stake, many demons populate society, pulling people together and apart.
    • https://worm.org/production/mfa-piet-zwart-institute-grad-show/

    I Must Be Living Twice

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 23-04-2022 t/m 27-11-2022
    • In samenwerking met: Shimmer, European Cultural Centre, Venice Biennale
    • Locatie: Palazzo Mora, Venice
    • This year, the Piet Zwart Institute Master Fine Arts traveled to Venice, Italy to visit the 59th Venice Biennale and participate in the exhibition “Personal Structures” organized by the European Cultural Centre and encompasses the work of international contemporary artists, art schools, and organizations. The works of current PZI MFA students will be on display at Palazzo Mora April 23rd until November 27th 2022. The MFA presents an exhibition within an exhibition curated by studio Shimmer.
    • https://www.wdka.nl/news-events/pzi-mfa-at-venice-biennale-2022

    Somewhere In Between

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 18-07-2019 t/m 24-08-2019
    • In samenwerking met: Vane, Orbis, Arts Council England, AKT, Pride Radio
    • Locatie: Vane Gallery, Rotterdam
    • Newcastle-based artist Oliver Doe’s exhibition, ‘Somewhere In Between’, questions the way that we see queer people, turning this abstraction on its head in order to proudly demonstrate LGBTQ+ bodies as a defiant site of political and cultural difference. Queer erasure is rendered into boldly coloured minimalist paintings, defiantly present in the space, and yet containing a pervading sense of absence in their reduced forms.
    • https://www.vane.org.uk/exhibitions/somewhere-in-between

    Formations: Ellsworth Kelly, Albert Irvin, Oliver Doe & Josh Raz

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    Erkenningen

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    • Moving Through A Queer Linguistic: Code-Switching Performance Within a Queer Transmedia Practice

    • 2021
    • Article
    • Dunce Magazine -
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    • Begin in a resting position // Begin in een rustpositie

    • 2021
    • Book
    • Self-Published - Oliver Doe
      Publicatie

    • Moving Through A Queer Linguistic: Code-Switching Performance Within a Queer Transmedia Practice

    • 2021
    • Article
    • Dunce Magazine - Oliver Doe
      Publicatie

    • Somewhere In Between

    • 2019
    • Book
    • Self-Published - Oliver Doe
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    • Trace Your Fingers Over The Edges Of Me

    • 2018
    • Book
    • Self-Published - Oliver Doe
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    • Body, you are not me

    • 2018
    • Booklet
    • Curious Arts - Oliver Doe
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    • Salty Sweet

    • 2015
    • Book
    • Self-Published - Oliver Doe
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    • Poems

    • 2014
    • Book
    • LUMA Foundation - Oliver Doe