Small Things in Silence, Bound in Blue: Yamamoto Masao
Yamamoto Masao had not only treated these prints with a range of teas, and chemicals—this I already knew—but also with tears from his own eyes.
Raymond Pettibon – The Art of Black Flag (1980s)
Pettibon’s drawings say: sure, I’ll suck dick for cigarettes.
Leon Levinstein – Street Photography
Bold and bluntly framed, the images are enthused with a voyeuristic atmosphere and an emphasis on body shapes that at times seem to hint at the grotesque.
Byberry Insane Asylum – A House of Horrors in 1940’s Philadelphia
For nearly 200 years, Northeastern Philadelphia had treated its surrounding mentally ill citizens “to keep them off the streets” because they caused “terror among their neighbors.”
Francis Bacon – Photographs, Painting, Destructive Criticism and More
“I’ve had photographs taken for portraits because I very much prefer working from the photographs than from them.”
Deutsche Börse 2015, what’s the point?
This is an exhibition that strives to be down with the Zeitgeist, digging the first album; this is an exhibition that, like, totally gets it.
Upstairs at Eric’s – Game Recognize Game.
“If there’re gonna be 100 people in my apartment, there are gonna be twenty or so who want to be exhibitionists and expose themselves to express themselves…”
Post-Human Crumbling Babylon: Regula Bochsler and Philipp Sarasin – ‘The Rendering Eye’
My eye continues to vector the punctuating structures here from where I have flown so close to the pattern of Icarus that I’m just waiting for my wings to melt. By Brad Feuerhelm, ASX, May 2015 My eye slips from its socket and shakes loose from its lodging in my skull. I grasp at […]
A Family Reduced to Ash: TR Ericsson and the Image of Lamentation
”Start to live; start to see how you can be dead and alive at the same time instead of alive and alive.”
Daniel Mayrit Fucks 100 Capitalists in Their Greed Ridden Mouths
In 2015, the people that rule our world are not concerned with their oral gesturing, their sweaty temples, or their dissenting eyes. They condemn the mass populace through the veil of hidden technologies, cleverly hidden behind boardrooms and at best, scratchy Skype call images. By Brad Feuerhelm, ASX, May 2015 The organ has no fixed […]
Auto-Erotic Post-Coital Bliss – Lotte Reimann ‘Jaunt’
The duo had created the membrane of their meeting based on the physicality of the auto and their drive to intertwine their bodies through their primary, yet graceless couplings via a chance meeting in an etherized world of electronic falsettos and cum-soaked chat rooms. By Brad Feuerhelm, ASX, May 2015 The sun stretched […]
Interrogating The Notion of Documentary Truth: Stacy Kranitz – ‘As it was give(n) to me’
Stacy Kranitz ’s long-form photographic project As it was give(n) to me is a work that interrogates notions of documentary truth.