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PLEASURE SEEKERS, 2015

Doug Fishbone's LeisureLand Golf, 56th Venice Biennial, Italy (commissioned by EM15)

(Steel, MDF, glitter, resin, digitally printed acrylic, Astroturf)

Doug Fishbone’s Leisure Land Golf is a fully playable 9 course mini-golf course including designs by:

John Akomfrah
Yara El-Sherbini,
Doug Fishbone
Candice Jacobs
Hetain Patel
Yinka Shonibare
Lindsay Seers
Eyal Weizman
Reactor

Jacobs' commission makes reference to Bruce Forsyth’s Price is Right gameshow as a public outlet of exploitation that manipulates the collective experience of power through assumed gender dynamics. Shaping the audience’s aspirations in order to achieve the ultimate hetero-normative desires of a capitalist human condition.