Project by Elise Cloutier
What is left of Clit Club is fragmented, scattered, blurry. Its former site in the Meatpacking District has been sterilized, commercialized. This project borrows Clit Club’s strategies of operation - mutability, intimacy, obscurity, repulsion, community, dissemination - to create a space which serves and benefits anyone who falls under the umbrella term of “queer”.
To be queer is to transgress. Curtains skirt around the existing structural grid, working around and pushing against. The ground and basement levels are collapsed, creating opportunities for voyeurism and connection.
The only fixed program of the site is that of a laundromat. Other programs include art exhibitions, film screenings, performance, parties. More intimate programs are also accommodated - counselling, prayer, hookups.
While this project proposes a configuration of spaces, the curtain railing system is intentionally mutable. Spaces are temporary and can easily be transformed via the layering, collapsing, tying, and moving of curtains.
