I was obsessed with Old Towne Mall when I was young. It was a mall but it was like a fake town inside also with animatronics and rides and it was like a big stage set. SO COOL.
"I’ve tried to get you out of my head but I can’t seem to get you out of my flesh. I think about your…"
GAYHOUSE is a graphic and visual review that invites artists to share their personal, singular and affirmative vision of gay identity— whether this vision by joyful, poetic, worried, ironic, humorous, pornographic, modest…Taking over the review is similar to inhabiting a house. The invited artist is free to select a layout, its decoration, and the guests. Ultimately, the review will present an image of his or her world.
Elijah Burgher (b. 1978, lives and works in Chicago) aims to contribute to the strain of countercultural queer mysticism exemplified by figures such as Jean Genet, Kenneth Anger, and Hakim Bey. His works, mostly drawings, have their sources in imagination, found stories, historical artworks, but take root into the artist’s daily life and personal history. Beside figurative drawings, where men are engaged in ritual activities, he creates sigils, magical emblems conceived after an historical method of spell casting developed by early 20th century occultist Austin Osman Spare, in which the letters spelling out a wish are combined into a new symbol. Thus he creates icons that utilize the language and history of abstraction.
Elijah Burgher’s GAYHOUSE #5 will be available on the booth of Septembre éditions at THE NY ART BOOK FAIR, 28 – 30 September, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, Queens.
Signature: Saturday 29 September, 5 P.M., official book-signing table in the lobby of MoMA PS1.
is the most concise and deadly cultural criticism/economic policy I have read in a long time, and I would tell you to launch it as the natural successor to Shut Up Foodies but it’s post-blog, it’s perfect, it’s cooked.
Hush, you. Besides Kara will confirm that 90% of my career is an elaborate prank, and you are a smarty.
1961 utility room design by Sherwin-Williams.