Andreas Angelidakis
Cruising Pavilion, 16th Venice Architectural Biennial
May 25, 2018–July 1, 2018Spazio Punch, Venice
The Cruising Pavilion wishes to highlight the failure to consider ​Freespace as defined by this edition of the Venice Architecture Biennale, without questioning the hetero-normative production of space itself. Architecture is a sexual practice and cruising is one of the most crucial acts of dissidence.
Cruising Labyrinth by Andreas Angelidakis is a spatial system commissioned for a BUTT Magazine party in London. Using a single Gloryhole panel, and made with off-the-shelf hardboard panels, the labyrinth was meant to provide hours of cruising fun to the London based BUTTHEADS. The original design included steps up to the Dick Deck, which would allow visitors to suck dick or lick ass without having to be on their knees. The panels could be easily rearranged to provide multiple typologies of cruising space, all more or less inspired by gaming spaces. A random arrangement results in a Miss Pacman type of classic labyrinth, while a linear configuration might remind one of the early Windows 98 screensaver, which might annoyingly be activated while you watched porn on your PC.
