6 April 2021, Boyfriend.Dick – Tarot Reading with Eilidh Nuala Duffy
Boyfriend.Dick is a performer who works at the intersection of visual art, pornography and social media performance. Using specially created tarot cards, he regularly gives readings for his many followers. His deck of cards depicts internet archetypes such as The Influencer, The Baby Angel, The Porn Star or The Troll and uses found imagery taken from his meme account.
In regular virtual readings, Boyfriend.Dick approaches a “weird kind of art talk," speaking with invited guests about their practice by way of his tarot cards. His third guest is Eilidh Nuala Duffy.
Eilidh Nuala Duffy is a London-based writer who’s interested in the unseen, the in-between and that which appears to be lost. Duffy’s work maps geological and digital space and contorts time, weaving together primary and secondary research in order to question the value of memory – both in the psyche and that which is embedded in physical and digital worlds. She is interested in archaeology and its use of technology to construct broken, speculative stories from the waste and ephemera of past lives and believes writing has a similar ability to make sense of the world through a patchwork of borrowed symbols, knowledge and phrases.
In May 2019 Duffy launched the experimental digital magazine Bog (bog.life) which, in response to a sparse fashion publishing landscape, adopts the signifiers of a fashion magazine (the fashion shoot, profiles on fashion designers, etc.) and attempts to broaden and deepen the possibility of what a fashion publication can be. Focusing primarily on research, the result is an ever-evolving journal which aims to challenge the ways in which we connect documentation of the now with its cultural, social and political history and broader cultural studies.
The first issue of Bog, The Issue of Prehistory, takes the form of a 3D rendition of a bog, complete with underground caves which you can explore like a video game. Its second issue, The Issue of Dust, was launched in September 2020 and takes the form of a bog viewed from above. The format of Bog encourages visitors to explore worlds in order to discover content, like an archaeologist might dig below the ground to retrieve information. It intends to reflect the chaotic, unordered relationship we have with both our journey through life and that of exploration on the internet.
The Bog zine Duster.1is available for download here.
The reading took place on Boyfriend.Dick's Instagram account at 8 pm CEST (Rome), 7 pm BST (London), 2 pm EDT (New York).
6 April 2021, Boyfriend.Dick – Tarot Reading with Eilidh Nuala Duffy
Boyfriend.Dick is a performer who works at the intersection of visual art, pornography and social media performance. Using specially created tarot cards, he regularly gives readings for his many followers. His deck of cards depict internet archetypes such as The Influencer, The Baby Angel, The Porn Star or The Troll and use found imagery taken from his meme account.
In regular virtual readings, Boyfriend.Dick approaches a “weird kind of art talk," speaking with invited guests about their practice by way of his tarot cards. His third guest is Eilidh Nuala Duffy.
Eilidh Nuala Duffy is a London-based writer who’s interested in the unseen, the in-between and that which appears to be lost. Duffy’s work maps geological and digital space and contorts time, weaving together primary and secondary research in order to question the value of memory – both in the psyche and that which is embedded in physical and digital worlds. She is interested in archaeology and its use of technology to construct broken, speculative stories from the waste and ephemera of past lives and believes writing has a similar ability to make sense of the world through a patchwork of borrowed symbols, knowledge and phrases.
In May 2019 Duffy launched the experimental digital magazine Bog (bog.life) which, in response to a sparse fashion publishing landscape, adopts the signifiers of a fashion magazine (the fashion shoot, profiles on fashion designers, etc.) and attempts to broaden and deepen the possibility of what a fashion publication can be. Focusing primarily on research, the result is an ever-evolving journal which aims to challenge the ways in which we connect documentation of the now with its cultural, social and political history and broader cultural studies.
The first issue of Bog, The Issue of Prehistory, takes the form of a 3D rendition of a bog, complete with underground caves which you can explore like a video game. Its second issue, The Issue of Dust, was launched in September 2020 and takes the form of a bog viewed from above. The format of Bog encourages visitors to explore worlds in order to discover content, like an archaeologist might dig below the ground to retrieve information. It intends to reflect the chaotic, unordered relationship we have with both our journey through life and that of exploration on the internet.
The Bog zine Duster.1is available for download here.
The reading took place on Boyfriend.Dick's Instagram account at 8 pm CEST (Rome), 7 pm BST (London), 2 pm EDT (New York).