Kaasaegse Kunsti Eesti Keskus / Artists / Works / AAFAGC (Applied Art for A Gay Club)

AAFAGC (Applied Art for A Gay Club), in collaboration with Alo Paistikuga. Photos, video. 2011. “AAFAGC” is a video project that consists of six short scenes of laboring men, shot on the Estonian islands of Muhu and Saaremaa. The central interest of the project is to deal with certain socio-cultural dimensions of homo erotica in traditional agrarian environment. The videos show men carrying out different tasks common to rural Estonian milieu – plowing, checking fishing nets at the sea, milking, haymaking, sawing and hunting. On the most basic level the six scenes could come across as credible documentations of everyday rural life, thus replacing the habitual hedonistic tropes of gay club male erotica. At the same time, through the pseudo-ethnographic treatment the videos take a critical look at the representation of an Estonian man at work. “AAFAGC” is an art project, but the videos are destined to be shown also on the screens of different gay clubs.