This event launches I TRUST PAIN, the new album by Richie Culver, published by Fixed Abode and accompanied by a film. Culver explores memory, inheritance and masculinity shaped by class and geography.
I TRUST PAIN combines seven music videos with deteriorated footage of Culver’s childhood hometown and family home. Through stark imagery and sonic intensity, the work examines fragmented memory, paternal absence and the psychic weight of inheritance. It interrogates the pressures on young men within a cultural climate where distorted models of masculinity, such as those promoted by Andrew Tate, continue to circulate.
The videos by Culver, Blackhaine, Allen-Golder Carpenter, Rebecca Salvadori, Max Kreis and SKINTAPE form a fragmented but unified chorus. They resist straightforward autobiography, offering instead a poetics of rupture, haunting and unresolved memory.
The programme also features a live spoken word performance by multi-disciplinary artist Rainy Miller, founder of Fixed Abode. Miller works across music, writing and performance, using rhythm and cadence to connect personal experience with broader cultural critique. Their spoken word extends the themes of I TRUST PAIN, reframing inherited narratives of masculinity and emotional endurance through language, sound and presence.
The event also presents a rare recording of Genesis P-Orridge. Captured at the Swiss Institute, New York, in November 2007, shortly after the passing of their partner and collaborator Lady Jaye Breyer, the performance carries a charged atmosphere. Originally circulated only in a very limited cassette edition, it has never been made available digitally.
