Room Party

A photo of Brett Hanover's piece, Digger, Listener, Runner, 2025. Made with assistance by Eve Hoyt. Photo by Tommy Bruce.

A poignant end with our very own @lordpook.bsky.social

A screengrab of IV Nuss' video work, I Really Want To Go To Anthrocon 2025 But I'm Too Scared To Enter The States With My Tranny ID, 2025.

This video was screened as part of a series of performances and lectures and was billed as a "live performance" even though Nuss was clearly absent. Nuss is a German poet and artist whose work approaches the universal and transcendental by way of the mundane and pedestrian. In the video, she pretends to buy plane tickets and pack for a trip to the US ("I'll be with you soon") but notes certain obstacles to the journey—the US government, finances— and reflects on how we might be together at a distance. These days, everywhere seems to take place in the same sort of nowhere-place—a hotel lobby, for instance—where there's an intimacy in the shared blandness of it all. Haven't we all been to the DoubleTree Hotel? Haven't we fallen in or out of love there? Nuss also invents the "layers of the fursuit" — the outer layer, the outer-inner layer, the strategically placed layer, "negative cerberus," "Selva Obscura," "Swoon As You See Your Own Death," and the Endo Sphere —and compares them to the layers of a suitcase she pretends to pack. It's funny, weird, and moving.

A regards to @flausch.bsky.social

A photo of Julianna Huxtable's newsprint poster by fictitious journal The Sunday Independent running the headline "FURRIES GONE TOO FAR". Photo by Tommy Bruce.

But trust me that the feeling is different. What feels substantially different about a show like "Room Party" is perhaps just its necessity, not only to the furries (for whom this sort of self-expression is at times a matter of queer life or death), but for the rest of us. I want to make a case for this art's relevance to Furry and human alike. The ninety-odd works of art at "Room Party" are some of the best l've seen in years, in part because none of them turn away from the fact that it's 2025, not 1945. Also, they're so weird and fun and maximally gay and highly specific. To quote writer/artist Chris Kraus, "Our specificity is all we have to offer." What the furries understand is that we artists working today have to proverbially choose a fighter (and rehashed minimalism/formalism is not a fighter).

Our choices are: We can commit to a tech-accelerationist sublime—a dark vision of technological/social change and the end of history, which leads to us eventually shipping consciousness to Mars in shitcoin-funded space vessels; or We can accept our condition as hopelessly stranded between the virtual and IRL, accept the depersonalization and disembodied trans-ness of it all, follow our desires, and remain here on Earth to attend the ongoing rave reembodied as sexy cartoon tiger avatars.

Some excerpts:

Featuring the review of works by @attyboy.bsky.social @flausch.bsky.social
@lordpook.bsky.social @scribblechicken.bsky.social @zubrovich.bsky.social @julianahuxtable.bsky.social @elfboys.com

FURRY ARTISTS WILL REMAKE THE WORLD - Artillery Magazine

We're honored to have Room Party land a review in Artillery Magazine! Huge thanks to Eileen—she's someone who totally gets why this shit matters. Give her review a read!!

artillerymag.com/furry-artist...

Huge thanks to Paul and Brett for buffing up the site since the show came down!! We hope this'll let more people engage with the show and continue to support the artists involved. Check it out!

Hey all! Wanna buy the zines and comics from Room Party? We put together a compiled list on our site so you can purchase directly from the artists. Give it a look!

room-party.com/books/

A photo of the Room Party team on the mantle in the gallery. From left to right: Lane, Cass, Brett and Paul.

And with that, the show comes down. Thank you to everyone who made it out to the show over the past two months. From the team: it couldn't have been possible without you 💜

A black and white poster of a dragon furry and a lynx furry sitting around a computer with air canada gal on the screen. The dragon asks, "THAT'S contemporary furry art?", to which the lynx responds, "PURRRR...! And there's more where that came from!" Room Party's closing reception is listed for July 20th, 12-4PM at Bunker Projects on 5106 Penn Ave

Our closing will start soon!! Come see our very own retro poster in the style of Sy Sable by @uglygirlswag.bsky.social featuring @lordpook.bsky.social, on view in the gallery for today only ;3

Well after the show is over we'll be working on a catalog for the show!! This'll let people online engage more with the show; for now that's still in the works ;P

Please read this wonderfully thoughtful review of Room Party. This is such a monumental show and it's beautiful to have it be seen so deeply by furries and Pittsburgh residents alike!! 🐕‍🦺🐕🖤💛🖤💛

@roomparty.bsky.social

This is it! The last day of the show... Come down Sunday for our closing ceremony at Bunker Projects from 12-4pm. Come see the show one last time, have some drinks and chat with us. We'll see you there!

What a run this show's had! Come down this Saturday for our last workshop of the show's run—put your furry feelings down to paper at Bunker Projects, with open workshop and gallery hours from 12-6pm. See you there!

yes! the closing ceremony will be 12-4 pm on the 20th. We're also gonna have a writing workshop on the 19th with the gallery open from 12-6, so come by!!

So thankful to Max for this wonderful review!!! He knocked it outta the park here, give it a read and let us know what you thought of it 👀

Self Portrait (Emotional Support Dog) — Mark Zubrovich. a blue dog stands heroically in a suit of armor, bathed in rays of light

Atmus in the Flowers — Tommy Bruce. a fursuit photo of atmus, a deer, laying down in a photo collaged field of flowers

Mimzy’s Whimzies (excerpt) — mimisdreamies. a noisily sketch covered zine filled with doodles of various cats and catsonas in y2k adjacent wear, with posters reading "LET'S PARTY!"

NEWS!

in the leadup to anthrocon 2025, bunker projects in pgh opened "room party", the /first-ever/ large-scale group exhibition of contemporary furry art

🌟i wrote the review!!🌟

this is my debut in art crit and i'm thrilled that it is on a show so momentous!

bunkerprojects.org/the-wildness...

Open gallery hours are start!! Make it out, it's already busy ;3

Open gallery hours going Thursdays (that's today!!!) from 5-7pm and Sunday from 12-2pm. Make it out for the last two weeks of the show yall :3

It was so amazing to perform for you all last night at @roomparty.bsky.social
It is rare doing drag to perform for anyone who really gets what I’m doing, let alone the entire audience getting it. I’m sure there are many more pictures so please send them my way
I love you all 💚🩷💚🩷

thank u so much!!! that zine was specially made for the show by @pinkcloudyboi.bsky.social, its so beyond beautiful 🥹💗

artists talks and panels going on today until 5!!! Come join for brunch and great conversations. Afterwards we'll have extended gallery hours 5-8 to see the show. Last day of AC so make it down!!!

What an incredible night!! We had such amazing performances. Show up tomorrow from 1-5PM for panels, talks and another chance to see the show this weekend!!! Word on the street is we'll have some open gallery hours afterwards, another chance to see the show this weekend 👀

That's a wrap on day 1! See y'all tomorrow 🙏

DOORS ARE OPEN! Come down and see THE party of the year... 👀

I hope that everyone going to Anthrocon this weekend has a sick time! You gotta make sure you check out Room Party. Here's a sneak peek at my piece for the show.

currently featured in the Room Party exhibition!

(3/3) TONS of events at @roomparty.bsky.social this weekend. No con badge required! It’s unaffiliated!

Hi! We LOVE to see fursuiters at the gallery. Be prepared for crowds and a small gallery though!

THE SEX ROOM @ ANTHROCON '25
SAT JULY 5 @ ROBOTO PROJECT
A MINI FURRY MUSIC FESTIVAL FEAT
@archimicarus.bsky.social @duster.bsky.social PARARACCOON @junelalonde.bsky.social @pentuppup.bsky.social @scurrow.bsky.social & ME
LIVE VISUALS BY @bottlerocket.bsky.social
ART BY @mammalfriend.bsky.social

A poster detailing how anthrocon attendees can make it out to Bunker Projects (5106 Penn Ave) by bus from the con space. The 88 line takes you to the gallery in 20 minutes!

ANTHROCON!!! Want to make it out to the show but don't know how??? Here's a flier on how to get out to the gallery! We'll see you tonight for our grand opening at 6-11PM, or make it out for the next two days of events! See you there ;3