T_OUGH _LOVE

TROUGH/Trof
1 — a long, narrow vessel animals drink and eat out of.
2 — A urinal / a public space where men congregate with their junk out.

PUTTING THE ART INTO P-ART-Y
TROUGH events are notorious for their visionary photographic imagery and epic video art-promos, all produced and directed by creator Nik Dimopoulos. This body of work not only adds a strong and artistic aesthetic to the practical details of the parties: What / Where / When / Who, but also carries a distinctive vision to the event itself. Since the conception of TROUGH, Nik Dimopoulos has been creating, experimenting, collaborating and art-directing thought provoking worlds and narratives through photography, video and installation. The nightclub is his gallery where he invites the viewer / participant / dancer to immerse themselves in a visually overloaded sensory space surrounded by hard probing beats, sweaty bodies and the objects of our desires.

T_OUGH _LOVE
T_OUGH _LOVE gives you an immersive and provocative art experience you didn't know you needed – tracing the evolution of Nik Dimopoulos and his debaucherous party/brand/lovechild, TROUGH. Experimenting at the intersection of masculinity and sex, T_OUGH _LOVE is a thought-provoking installation of moving and still images captured through the lens of a queer eye. Included in the show will be new compilation artworks and collaborations questioning the complex intermingling of light and dark, sex, kink and the object(ification)s of our desires.

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TROUGH would like to acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians as the first peoples of these great lands on which we come together. We wish to pay our respects to all First Nation Australians, past, present and emerging, and we acknowledge and celebrate their continued spiritual and cultural connection to the land. Sovereignty was never ceded.