Museum of Modern Twink (MoMT)

June 18–July 3, 2010 / GLCCB / Baltimore, MD

Twink replaced Art in 2011, and the older gay men of Baltimore were used as readymades.

MoMT, the second exhibition by DUOX, bastardizes the museum as a way to engage a stereotype in the queer community by remaking a former LGBT bookstore into a place of anachronistic non-linearity. The diversity of form and methodologies for generating the work align with the diversity one may come to understand amongst these individuals. While the previous project, King Me, was an attempt to use a specific place as a prompt, MoMT seeks to imagine—then generate—a place of negotiation, standards, criticality, and occasionally excitement and where the stereotype is positioned as protagonist. Tropes of the artifact align with traditional art forms to create a new body of work. In MoMT the artists’ engagement with theatre, provocation, and coded information “…come[s] out of being frustrated with the human condition… [a]nd how people refuse to understand other people.” (Bruce Nauman)