Videostill: Wanna Play? (Love in the Time of Grindr)

The Dutch artist Dries Verhoeven reports that he used the app Grindr to meet many men for sex. At the same time, he obser­ved a variety of changes in the gay scene and in the city itself: homosexuals went out less frequently, because they could also find quick sex via the Internet. Thus bars of the LGBT scene in Amsterdam were closed. Dating apps had the effect of causing a cultural milieu that had fought for a visible place in society to disappear from view once again. In his performance Wannt Play?, Verhoeven is concerned with the visibility of intimacy in public spaces.