SALAD-CHURCH-EXERCISE closing @ C-PS
SALAD-CHURCH-EXERCISE closing Saturday July 18th, 1-5 at Co-Propserity Sphere, 3219 S. Morgan.
Especially if you haven't yet had a chance to see this phenomenal meditation on these three autoredemptive avenues, please come and look at some beautiful art. If you like, please stay around for an informal discussion at 3:00 pm, led by the curator (me) There will be OPTIONAL BLINDFOLDS available! No kidding, seriously.
Once more, the artists in the show include:
Michael Bancroft
Noah Berlatsky
Dayton Castleman
CThrough Outfit
Chelsea Culp
Derek Erdman
Gina Grafos
Jacob C. Hammes
Jaime Lynn Henderson
Hideous Beast
Thaddeus Kellstadt
Paul Mack
Rachel Pollak
Yvie Raij
Oliverio Rodriguez
Christopher Santiago
Dewayne Slightweight
Edra Soto
Bert Stabler
Matthew Steinke
Susannah Kite Strang
Open hours 1-4 pm Saturday July 11, Saturday July 18.
The concept:
While large-scale organs of control, such as schools, hospitals, and prisons, enforce the social contract through a restriction of choice and a remote delegation of authority, personal or cultural techniques for redirecting and mastering libido, the inner primordial chaos we carry within, can be found in the options represented by salad, church, and exercise. The deep loyalty and repulsion aroused in modern hearts by these three everyday pursuits, and their heroic and perverse obsession with denying the desires of the body, is the starting point for the works in “Salad-Church-Exercise,” fantasies that are channeled into a polymorphous menagerie of audiovisual media.
Three classic texts that have instructed the bodies of our ancestors can be found online at these URLs, and will be available in hard copy at the show.
St. Ignatius of Loyola, Spiritual Exercises.
http://www.jesuit.org/Spirituality/Spiritual+Exercises/default.aspx
John Evelyn, A Discourse on Sallets.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15517/15517-h/15517-h.htm
Friedrich Ludwig Jahn: A Treatise on Gymnasticks.
