We started our website way back when in 2015, and it was during the final year of our uni course; we were young(er) hooligans with no clear understanding of how the art world could be so polite and maintain this strange professionalism even in criticism, when nothing seemed good or right. We tried to speak freely across all our writing, but it has always been the Twitter and Instagram posts that have caused a ruckus. (tbf there is no comment section on thewhitepube.com so that’ll be why). It feels extra nice then to have been invited by performingborders to take up a Twitter residency on their account, because it’s been like letting a person housesit for you when you know they have had lots of parties in their own place in the past. It was fine tho! A little Twitter holiday. We did the laundry before we left!
The residency was a good time to sit down and read things consciously. We went through the archive of posts and videos and interviews here, and between the two of us chose a good variety of subjects I think. We decided that the residency would play out like this: in the morning we’d let twitter followers know what the text-of-the-day was like a good soup, read all day, and then come back in the evening to digest in the form of a thread. The links below go out to each of those threads in their entirety – long form-ish, but still bitesize, neat.
We really enjoyed this way of working + the content we were being asked to engage with. I think it was a good way for us/audiences to learn more about artists when galleries are still mostly closed in lockdown. I am glad we were asked to come along.
Read Gabrielle and Zarina’s 7-day performingbordersLIVE20 Twitter residency’s threads here:
hellooo we are art critics the white pube (gab and Zarina hello), and we are taking over this account for the next 7 days. Every day we will pull a text from the performing borders website, give u a bit of time to look over it, and then break it down and think out loud on twitter pic.twitter.com/ZG9Fgx65HD
— performingborders (@performborders) July 1, 2020
ookie sO, today maybe this is a nice place to start? super relevant rn imo
AAA Radio Live: A Series of Uncomfortable Conversations #4 – a public talk broadcast by Asia Art Activism in collaboration with Performing Borders. the link from the event's here: https://t.co/dtjJbG28u7
— performingborders (@performborders) July 1, 2020
hello class ! the text we are going to be looking at today from the performingborders archive is an interview with Núria Güell. It's on this link in English and español so have a look, it's not too long, and we'll circle back later today to have a read. https://t.co/gxriuJjpzo pic.twitter.com/8kWlDAwaPU
— performingborders (@performborders) July 2, 2020
happy friday! it's us, @thewhitepube again. Today's Moment from the Performing Border's archive is this: a collective piece of writing, created as part of the Returning to Home Workshop: let me give you some breathing space, facilitated by Annie Jael Kwanhttps://t.co/fqTNpH3qxq pic.twitter.com/7g3kCTW3rF
— performingborders (@performborders) July 3, 2020
later today, let's have a look at this post from performingborders which is an interview between Alessandra Cianetti and Kai Syng Tan talkin bout RUNNING as well as other projects n ways of working. Have a read and I'll come back later to have a chat x x xhttps://t.co/doV1jGMIjX pic.twitter.com/Q4QqTRw9r1
— performingborders (@performborders) July 4, 2020
it’s sundayyyyy and today we’re going to be looking at the interview with Lynn Lu from the performingborders archive and thinking about some of her performances as pictured below / read here https://t.co/rqp7nhUAp7 and I’ll see ya later pic.twitter.com/fWu7V6uzad
— performingborders (@performborders) July 5, 2020
good MORNING! happy monday to our study-buddies bc this evening we're going to be discussing this: a response from Season Butler from the performing borders archive https://t.co/zBWAtxg9M1
— performingborders (@performborders) July 6, 2020
happy tuesday! this is our last day in residence here on the PB twitter, so i thought it'd be good to spend our evening chewing on summink BIG N CHUNKY,,, likeeeee: https://t.co/WcD2LbxkJS
this interview with Michaela Crimmin, 'the founder and co-director of Culture+Conflict'
— performingborders (@performborders) July 7, 2020
Featured image credits: Oliie Adegboy