A one-afternoon experimental exhibition that uses a pool party as its frame, exploring the intersections of contemporary art, leisure, and ecology. Featuring a reactivation of Matt Barton’s Community Forms (2021) and newly commissioned performances and installations by artists Amber Cobb, Anthony Garcia Sr., Rick Griffith, Elle Hong in collaboration with Joshua Ware, Julia Jamrozik, Coryn Kempster, and Bradley Klem. DJ sets by Bimbonita and Hotcakez.

To honor the nonprofit’s ten-year anniversary, Black Cube hosted three exciting, experimental group exhibitions in the museum’s home city of Denver: flood (June 21), SWEAT (September 18), and What We Hold On To (September 5–December 12). All exhibitions were curated by Cortney Lane Stell.

flood and SWEAT draw on the infrastructures of a pool party and a nightclub, respectively, blurring the lines between contemporary art, celebration, and community. These one-day exhibitions not only nod to the often-fraught relationship between art’s serious intellectual work and its festive contexts, but also call back to the transience of Black Cube’s popular Drive-In series (August 2017, December 2017, and August 2018)—a trio of one-night-only presentations that employed vehicles as spaces for unconventional art.