The Blood of Christ, Transformation and Worship in the Work of Dominic Hawgood
LORD YES!!!! FIRE FIRE FIRE BREATHE IN!!!!! The CHILDREN OF GOD AWAIT YOUR PURIFICATION. FIRE FIRE FIRE By Brad Feuerhelm, ASX, February 2015 A tongue too engorged with the blood of Christ to fit into the mouths of children left bent, palpitating and writhing on the carpeted floor. There is a cleric steering […]
Alec Soth on ‘Songbook’
“A lot of the language surrounding Songbook is about community and American culture…and that stuff’s in there, but actually what I wanted to do with it is talk to something more primal, more internal, and more about the human condition than the American condition. It’s the great problem of consciousness.” —Alec Soth Alec Soth […]
A Towering Pillar of Salt and a Seat Next to Julius Streicher at a Dinner in Hell: A Look at 2041’s Islamophobic Fetishism
You see, down here, everyone becomes a pillar of salt, eventually. I am simply idling at a perversity that need not be sexual. I like to cower, but I like to cower in the profundity of political infraction and a safety of self. By Brad Feuerhelm, ASX, February 2015 This is a new gutter […]
Sucking in a Taste of An America You Will Never Experience: The Exceptional Times of Roger Steffen’s ‘The Family Acid’
Within Steffen’s book, we are not confronted with the problems of America, but rather the problem of what America could have been. A chance operation to see love, commitment, individuality and that sum of its parts made whole even if for but a very short time By Brad Feuerhelm, ASX, February 2015 Mystic America. America […]
The Late Mike Kelley on Feminism and the (Gender Unequal) Art World
@ Mike Kelley “Like I said I was kind of coming out of hippie culture, or freak culture.” Mike Kelley Interviewed by Lynn Hershman Santa Monica, California, July 27, 2006 Lynn Hershman: So, this is the Howard Fox statement, this is what he said when we interviewed him, he said that you said publicly […]
An Elegiac Response to the Ghost of Surrealist Decadence in the Work of Paul Kooiker
@ Paul Kooiker This is where our shared habits meet concrete. All the possessions accumulated, obsessions sought and tendered in the infernal light of my psychic affairs have led me into the unforeseen garden of these earthly delights. By Brad Feuerhelm, ASX, February 2015 August, 1935 This is where our shared habits meet concrete. […]
Slicing, Splicing and Dicing in ‘The Bungalow’
a view from The Bungalow @ Anouk Kruithof I could lament on a narrative that these images might convey – a sort of comment on the very conception of human life, of birth and rebirth and memory and the way each of us will find a different meaning for these images – but that would, I […]
In Advance of a Broken Neck: 100 Girls that Corey Presha Doesn’t Know
@ Corey Presha That smile in your eyes that I have wished to control, if only by a little measure at a time hides a wound within me, within you By Brad Feuerhelm, ASX, February 2015 That smile in your eyes that I have wished to control, if only by a little measure at […]