What is inherited; what is our own? Three years after their debut solo show “Village Porn,” Hong Kong-based artist duo Virtue Village presents “Vibe Buster,” an experiential exploration of hauntology, queer theory, and the personal archive. Engaging not with literal ghosts but the intimate, spectral lingering of taught narratives, Virtue Village parse their new body of work across three central themes: the death of identity, the death of the father, and the death of magic.
At the crux of the show is the theory of queer hauntology, an identity movement that challenges the inclusivity of the “born this way” narrative. Institutionalized through popular culture and political agenda, the slogan has been instrumental in the advancement of queer rights—yet its message contains a paradox, one that suggests queerness and identity is a fixed, and perhaps even inherited, state.

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