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Dirty Weekend: Level G Takeover (18+)

Dirty Weekend

Vex Ashley

Across the weekend in the main foyers, dive into a bold celebration of desire, style and subculture with workshops, an intimate installation and an erotic literature and ephemera market.

Explore Vex Ashley's Four Chambers project as an expanded archival presentation. Peruse the Dirty Books & Bits market of erotic literature and desirous objects or join workshops that invite reflection on sexuality, embodiment and connection with Matt Skully and Adele Brydges.

Experience the installation Club to Couture, featuring pieces selected by leading figures from fashion, art and music, who select the items and images that have influenced them from the world of sexual subculture, illuminating the spectrum from club to couture.

Wander through Dirty Books & Bits, a market of erotic literature and objects, and join workshops that invite reflection on sexuality, embodiment and connection.

View the full programme below

Age restriction: This event is 18+ (All attendees must bring accepted form of legal ID)

The takeover will feature work that contains explicit sexualised imagery and performances. Workshops may reference intimacy and sex work.
 

Presented by Creative Collaboration

Part of Dirty Weekend

Ticket prices

Standard
Free

Programme

Saturday & Sunday

Four Chambers presents: THE STORY OF THE EYE, Fountain room 12pm – 6pm, strictly 18+
Step into Four Chambers’ world of erotic cinema and live art, where over a decade of radical, explicit video work and physical ephemera is brought to life through installations, talks and performances. Visitors can expect an immersive mirrored box from the film Echo Chamber (2025), pop-up activations with Vex Ashley, and a living archive that blurs cinema, performance, sexuality and fine art. This residency invites you to explore new ways of looking and being looked at, offering desire not as commodity but as language—an anatomy of queer, feminist and avant-garde erotic imaginaries that asks what it means to become your own voyeur.

Note: performances with Vex Ashley on Saturday only

Club to Couture, Level G Hub, all day
In this expanded archive, the fashion imaginary is traced through popular and underground culture. From leather to latex, the translation of identity into cultural production is a feedback loop of experience and representation. Forming and reforming the self through performances of reclamation and resistance is mediated by garments and objects. The wearing of these items creates a constellation of moments laced through subculture and club culture. These key pieces, selected by icons of our age traces a legacy of intimacy and queer identity as it enters the mainstream. Each lender opens a window onto their influences in this edited collection of ephemera that points to a set of tropes, codes, materials and desires. We look to the margins to inform the centre and ask: what is urgent about freedom and bodily autonomy today?

Club to Couture XXX, Level G Studio, 12pm – 6pm, strictly 18+ 
Leading figures from fashion, art and music select pieces that have influenced them from the world of sexual subculture, illuminating the spectrum from club to couture and tracing the legacy of kink and fetish as it enters the mainstream. This pop-up weekend installation presents the other half to the public installation in the hub, presenting the 18+ submissions for to Club to Couture.

Curated by Susanna Davies-Crook & Matt Skully

Saturday only

Dirty Books & Bits, Level G, 12pm - 6pm, strictly 18+
Visit Level G for a book and bits fair with an erotic edge foregrounding the body, love, desire and style as a source of creative inspiration for literature and fashion. Full details of the marketplace and sellers will be published at a later date. 

Workshops, FreeStage, Level G strictly 18+ 

Embodied Connection: Exploring Presence and Pleasure
Led by Adele Brydges, this session invites participants to engage with the body and senses through guided practices that foster awareness, presence, and connection. The session combines participatory exercises and sensorial exploration to encourage reflection, curiosity, and a deeper experience of embodiment. 

Matt Skully: Writing Sexual Subcultures
This workshop explores the cross over of embellishment and imagination, building on elements of truth and exaggerated experiences. We look at Jack Saul's Tales of the City and the Plain, and explore writings of historical sex workers. Pop up workshops and readings on the FreeStage will take place on the day, first come first served to participate.

Level G