Spooner, 47, along with his creative partner of almost 20 years Warren Fischer, make up Fischerspooner, the art-music-dance-costume-everything project that became famous with their debut album, #1, and the firestorm first single, “Emerge,” in 2001. People are redrawing their boundaries of what they share and what they don’t,” Spooner said of his thinking behind the show, called, suggestively, “Sir.” “I’m trying to reflect what entertainment is now: Personal space. “We’re living through this sexual revolution. There’s a tall nude of Martin, his former “party boy boyfriend” Robert, a dancer he met on Grindr, is photographed wearing fishnets in a bathtub and, in the middle of the room, a large projection of a video that features him and another past lover named Juan Pablo dancing conceptually in tiny underwear, atop of a bed they once slept on together. We are at the Austrian modern and contemporary art museum Mumok, in an exhibition of Spooner’s making, and occupying the walls are images he has collaborated on with the photographer Yuki James, which feature himself and his lovers, creative partners, and friends in various states of nakedness. Casey Spooner, the artist with the ’70s shag haircut and beefcake body, stood in a dark, carpeted basement in Vienna, surrounded by dicks and muscles and ass.
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