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Assembly Room is pleased to present PLAYS ON CAMP, a group show curated by Ksenia Soboleva and featuring works by Leilah Babirye, Buzz Slutzky, and Nathan Storey Freeman. 

CAMP is making a comeback.
But this is not the MET Gala.
What does camp mean to a generation of young queer artists today? Does it still hold power in its potential to blur the lines between work and play, good and bad, silly and mature? Or, is camp a Western-inflected aesthetic paradigm that loses meaning beyond its specific socio-historical and geographic context? Plays on Camp asks three New York based queer artists with …