30 May - 20 June 2019
ohkaygall, York

Artists: Simon Bayliss, George Gibson, Jasleen Kaur, Navi Kaur, Campbell McConnell, Jill McKnight, Sadé Mica, Emily Muleng, Robyn Nichol, Lucy Jane Smith, Katie Numi Usher

Guiltee Pleasures is a show celebrating our guiltiest pleasures, and what they represent in terms of class, gender, and cultural identity. So the idea for this came about last summer when i was secretly living for love island, and although undeniably a problematic show in terms of diversity, gender norms (n well the list goes on) i accidentally got chatting to my teenage students about it and we all agreed Adam was THE WORST and then suddenly we were having a really meaningful conversation about gaslighting and emotional boundaries on a level that we all understood. Pop-culture can allow us to by-bass the pretence, our guiltiest pleasures are so often unashamedly human. Then I got thinking, well we have to question the things we feel ‘guilty’ about, who said trashy telly was trash?? Often our guilty pleasures are spoken with a voice that society sees as ‘othered’ - they are aimed at working-class audiences or spoken from a marginalised view point. guiltee pleasures shows 12 artists asking what they've got to be guilty about 🌈 🤔

There is a MIX CD 💿💿💿 that accompanies the show, with each person involved's fave guilty pleasure track.