Forthcoming:
"Days of death without sorrow" in "Black Thorns in the Black Box"
Film screening
The dates correspond to the "Black Thorns in the White Cube" gallery exhibition
Paragraph Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, January 20 - March 3, 2012
Western Exhibitions, Chicago, Illinois, March 16 - April 14, 2012
"Toward the event horizon"
Solo show (multichannel video, sound and photography installation)
The House of Art, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
April 12 - May 12, 2012
"Collision Zone" in "The Venice Biennale Projects 1988-2011"
Multichannel video and sound installation
Mudam Luxembourg
October 6, 2012 - January 5, 2013
"Unground"
Solo show. Sound and video installations in the historical cellars of
Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain
With live music interventions by Jason van Gulick and Stephen O'Malley
December 7, 2012 - January 6, 2013
Black Thorns in the Black Box is a touring screening of experimental film and video by eleven contemporary artists whose work resonates with the heavy, dark, and mystic obscurity of Black Metal music. Its premier in Kansas City on March 1, 2012 coincides with the gallery exhibition Black Thorns in the White Cube—on view through March 3 at Charlotte Street Foundation's Paragraph Gallery—and will follow the gallery exhibition to Chicago, IL.
Based throughout Northern America and Europe, the participating artists include Annie Feldmeier Adams for Locrian (Chicago), Gast Bouschet & Nadine Hilbert (Brussels, Belgium), Una Hamilton Helle (London, England), Devin Horan (Brooklyn), Hunter Hunt-Hendrix (Brooklyn), Ruth Jarman & Joe Gerhardt of Semiconductor (Brighton, England), Chris Kennedy (Toronto, Canada), Marianna Milhorat (Chicago), Jimmy Joe Roche (Baltimore), Shazzula for Cultus Sabbati (Brussels, Belgium), and Michaël Sellam (Paris, France). This screening of Black Thorns in the Black Box is organized into three parts—the underground, the earth, and the heavens—according to the three branches of Medieval concepts of music—musica mundana, musica humana, and musica instrumentalis—to explore how Black Metal has permeated all known spheres of creation.
About the curators:
Amelia Ishmael is an artist whose practice includes critiquing, historicising, teaching, and curating other artists' practices. Her current projects include the traveling art exhibition "Black Thorns in the White Cube" (currently on view at Paragraph Gallery in Kansas City, MO) and co-editing and curating pages for the academic journal Helvete. She studied studio art and art history at the Kansas City Art Institute and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and has published articles on contemporary art with The WIRE, Art21.com, ArtSlant Chicago, and Art Papers.
Bryan Wendorf co-founded the Chicago Underground Film Festival in 1994 and remains its Programmer and Artistic Director. He has served on the board of directors of IFP Chicago and has curated film programs including Conversations At The Edge at the Gene Siskel Film Center (Chicago), Transmediale (Berlin) and the Revelation Film Festival (Perth). He studied fine art at Columbia College Chicago, and has written articles about film, music, comics and popular culture for a variety of publications including New City, Indiewire, It’s Only A Move!, and Wormwood Chronicles.
http://blackthornsblackbox.tumblr.com/
http://www.facebook.com/BlackThornsintheBlackBox
Also:
Some of our photographies from "A Planet" will be published in "Helvete", a new journal of Black Metal Theory in March 2012. Helvete is a new open access electronic and print journal dedicated to continuing the mutual blackening of metal and theory inaugurated by the Black Metal Theory Symposia. Not to be confused with metal studies, music criticism, ethnography, or sociology, black metal theory is a speculative and creative endeavor, one which seeks ways of thinking that "count" as black metal events—and, indeed, to see how black metal might count as thinking. Theory of black metal, and black metal of theory.
Editors: Amelia Ishmael, Zachary Price, Aspasia Stephanou, Benjamin Woodard.
http://helvetejournal.org/
http://blackmetaltheory.blogspot.com/
Gast was interviewed by Amelia Ishmael for Art21.
To read the interview, please click Toward the event horizon