{"id":9,"date":"2016-11-11T23:50:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T23:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/?p=9"},"modified":"2026-01-27T14:16:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T14:16:45","slug":"slope-tend-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"slope-tend-big (exhibition)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full wp-duotone-unset-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"669\" src=\"https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/tumblr_inline_pfpzxlwa141t3lhqi_500.jpg\" alt=\"a man in a baseball cap dances bathes in pink light\" class=\"wp-image-156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/tumblr_inline_pfpzxlwa141t3lhqi_500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/tumblr_inline_pfpzxlwa141t3lhqi_500-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Digital photograph<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-rubik-font-family wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/grand-union.org.uk\/exhibitions\/mathew-parkin-slope-tend-big\/#overview-1\" target=\"_blank\">Shown at Grand Union in November 2016<\/a>. Installation including digital video, digitally printed fabric curtain, pride flag bean bags, powder coated steel trough, free contraceptives provided by local sexual health charity with information and leaflets, digital print, wall painting, and a programme of activity in the gallery. The programme of activity included an <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/grand-union.org.uk\/events\/mathew-parkin-in-conversation-with-kim-mcaleese\/\" target=\"_blank\">in-conversation between myself and Kim McAleese<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/grand-union.org.uk\/exhibitions\/queerzone3000-in-residence-at-grand-union\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/grand-union.org.uk\/exhibitions\/queerzone3000-in-residence-at-grand-union\/\">a <\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/grand-union.org.uk\/exhibitions\/queerzone3000-in-residence-at-grand-union\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/grand-union.org.uk\/exhibitions\/queerzone3000-in-residence-at-grand-union\/\" target=\"_blank\">residency for queer collective Queerzone3000<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/grand-union.org.uk\/exhibitions\/queerzone3000-in-residence-at-grand-union\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/grand-union.org.uk\/exhibitions\/queerzone3000-in-residence-at-grand-union\/\">,<\/a> <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/grand-union.org.uk\/events\/queer-film-screenings\/\" target=\"_blank\">a film screening (of works by Jamie Crewe, Moyra Davey, Christopher Kirubi, Paul Maheke, Alex Padfield, Marlon T. Riggs and Rehana Zaman)<\/a>, a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/grand-union.org.uk\/events\/will-you-dance-with-me\/\" target=\"_blank\">screening of Derek Jarman and Ron Pecks \u2018Will you Dance With me?\u2019, a panel discussion with ethnomusicologist Dr Luis-Manuel Garcia, Fierce Festival director Aaron Wright, Queerzone300, and Kim McAleese, as well as a celebratory party<\/a>. This was accompanied by a text by Kim McAleese and an essay &#8216;The order of celluloid nights&#8217; by Laura Guy <a href=\"https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/gu-mp-handout.pdf\" data-type=\"attachment\" data-id=\"158\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pdf downloadable here.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized wp-duotone-unset-2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Pink image of screen on a stand, beanbag seating and hexagonal wall painting\" class=\"wp-image-11\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Installation detail, slope-tend-big, 2016 at Grand Union, photo by Patrick Dandy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full wp-duotone-unset-3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1020\" height=\"680\" src=\"https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/slope-1.png\" alt=\"Pink image of screen on a stand, beanbag seating and hexagonal wall painting\" class=\"wp-image-149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/slope-1.png 1020w, https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/slope-1-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/slope-1-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Installation detail, slope-tend-big, 2016 at Grand Union, photo by Patrick Dandy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large wp-duotone-unset-4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/MattParkin_14_Installation_slopetendbig_2016-copy-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Pink image of large curtain with purple image of a dancing man leaning back hand on chest\" class=\"wp-image-150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/MattParkin_14_Installation_slopetendbig_2016-copy-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/MattParkin_14_Installation_slopetendbig_2016-copy-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/MattParkin_14_Installation_slopetendbig_2016-copy-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/MattParkin_14_Installation_slopetendbig_2016-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/MattParkin_14_Installation_slopetendbig_2016-copy.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Installation detail, slope-tend-big, 2016 at Grand Union, photo by Patrick Dandy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large wp-duotone-unset-5\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/MattParkin_4_Installation_slopetendbig_2016-copy-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"Pink image of orange trough with painted purple programme of activity on the wall\" class=\"wp-image-151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/MattParkin_4_Installation_slopetendbig_2016-copy-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/MattParkin_4_Installation_slopetendbig_2016-copy-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/MattParkin_4_Installation_slopetendbig_2016-copy-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/MattParkin_4_Installation_slopetendbig_2016-copy-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/MattParkin_4_Installation_slopetendbig_2016-copy.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Installation detail, slope-tend-big, 2016 at Grand Union, photo by Patrick Dandy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large wp-duotone-unset-6\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/MattParkin_7_Installation_slopetendbig_2016-copy-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Pink image of three people sat at a large desk full of electronic equipment with a poster painted with QUEERZONE3000 behind them\" class=\"wp-image-153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/MattParkin_7_Installation_slopetendbig_2016-copy-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/MattParkin_7_Installation_slopetendbig_2016-copy-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/MattParkin_7_Installation_slopetendbig_2016-copy-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/MattParkin_7_Installation_slopetendbig_2016-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/MattParkin_7_Installation_slopetendbig_2016-copy.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Installation detail, slope-tend-big, 2016 at Grand Union, photo by Patrick Dandy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full wp-duotone-unset-7\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/MattParkin_5_Installation_slopetendbig_2016.png\" alt=\"Pink image of orange trough full of packets of condom, lube and dental dams\" class=\"wp-image-154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/MattParkin_5_Installation_slopetendbig_2016.png 800w, https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/MattParkin_5_Installation_slopetendbig_2016-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/MattParkin_5_Installation_slopetendbig_2016-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Installation detail, slope-tend-big, 2016 at Grand Union, photo by Patrick Dandy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full wp-duotone-unset-8\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" src=\"https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/MattParkin_10_Installation_slopetendbig_2016.png\" alt=\"Pink image of screen on a stand, beanbag seating and photograph pinned on the back wall\" class=\"wp-image-155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/MattParkin_10_Installation_slopetendbig_2016.png 800w, https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/MattParkin_10_Installation_slopetendbig_2016-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/MattParkin_10_Installation_slopetendbig_2016-768x511.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Installation detail, slope-tend-big, 2016 at Grand Union, photo by Patrick Dandy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shown at Grand Union in November 2016. Installation including digital video, digitally printed fabric curtain, pride flag bean bags, powder coated steel trough, free contraceptives provided by local sexual health charity with information and leaflets, digital print, wall painting, and a programme of activity in the gallery. The programme of activity included an in-conversation between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibition","tag-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019,"href":"https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/1019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewparkin.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}