Through August 23 2009

Movement III
Kai Althoff, Matteah Baim, Philip Best, Liturgy, Lionel Maunz, Brandon Stosuy, Peter Sotos
with: Scott Campbell, Zach Baron, Adam Helms, Karlynn Holland, Mitch Kehe, Yair Oelbaum, Theo Stanley, Nick Z, Matt Zaremba
From July 30 2009

Movement II
featuring Lionel Maunz
from June 28 2009

LIONEL MAUNZ
Lionel Maunz is a sculptor and painter living and working in Brooklyn.  Mirror Me is his New York debut.  Employing diverse techniques using various synthetic and organic materials, Maunz creates objects and images that evoke a catastrophic horizon -- stockpiles of ritualistic tools and macabre statues suggesting an atavistic or post-civilized reality.  The act of constructing and the potential use of these objects sustains a matrix of myths and possibilities that revolve around Maunz’s practice.  Maunz received his MFA from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, he has had solo exhibitions in Dallas and has participated in group exhibitions in New York and Houston.

Movement I
Philip Best, Peter Sotos
from May 31 2009

PHILIP BEST
In 1982, at 14, English artist and musician Philip Best formed the seminal (and on-going) noise project, Consumer Electronics and founded the extreme electronic cassette label Iphar. After running away from home a year later, he joined the widely influential power electronics group Whitehouse. He's been an off-and-then-on member since. Alongside these classic sound recordings, Best began making collages in 1982 as part of his private scrapbooks. In 1998, he published the doctoral thesis, "Apocalypticism In The Fiction of William S. Burroughs, J.G. Ballard and Thomas Pynchon," later receiving his Ph.D. in English Literature from Durham University. He currently lives in Berlin. [http://philipbest.blogspot.com/]

PETER SOTOS
The prolific Chicago-born writer Peter Sotos, a longtime member of Whitehouse, began publishing the serial and sex killer-focused zine Pure in 1984 while attending the Art Institute of Chicago. He released two issues (a third surfaced later) and then self-published 20 issues of the fanzine, Parasite. His zines and his later books aren't novelistic; instead, frame each as an ethics course steeped in cum shots and crime sprees. The texts are, in his words, "severely connected," i.e. the more you read, the more complex the repetitions, shadows, echoes, reverberations. Selecting Comfort & Critique as one of Artforum's best books of 2005, Lucy McKenzie wrote: "When I think of Sotos, two writers come immediately to mind: Kathy Acker, for her blurring of gender, age, and sexuality as well as her insistently pornographic mode of depiction, and Andrea Dworkin, for her unapologetic exploration of themes of dominance and her central premise that women are undervalued in our society." His most recent publications are Show Adult (2007), Lordotics (2008), and The Collected Peter Sotos Volume One (2009). Sotos' videos, which collect material from various sources (television news, pornography, etc.), work as time-based collages. In his words they're "badly edited collections ... a system." In a 2006 interview with Brandon Stosuy he also noted, "They apply to any work I've done. They inform the books but they shouldn't be seen as anything complete."
[http://thefanzine.com/articles/features/39/interview_with_peter_sotos]

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