It's the Last Night on Earth Again (Other People Are Also You)
Curated by Taj Bourgeois
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"It's The Last Night On Earth Again (Other People Are Also You)" Is a group show curated by Taj Bourgeois featuring Michael Fish, Michael Horwitz, Matthew BuckwildPegasus Leavitt, Heiko Julien, Karl Sims, Jack Fisher, Shiloh O'Connor, Walter Davis, Corwin Peck, Austin Kelley Way, Sadashiva Stavrum, Rachel Bell, Jia Gy, and Kai Nollie. Everyone involved is sharing the same dream in the same house. We are not looking toward the past or future. We've accepted that the world may end, but we hope it won't. Tonight we celebrate our acceptance and our hope.
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"It's The Last Night On Earth Again (Other People Are Also You)" Is a group show curated by Taj Bourgeois featuring Michael Fish, Michael Horwitz, Matthew BuckwildPegasus Leavitt, Heiko Julien, Karl Sims, Jack Fisher, Shiloh O'Connor, Walter Davis, Corwin Peck, Austin Kelley Way, Sadashiva Stavrum, Rachel Bell, Jia Gy, and Kai Nollie. Everyone involved is sharing the same dream in the same house. We are not looking toward the past or future. We've accepted that the world may end, but we hope it won't. Tonight we celebrate our acceptance and our hope.
Matthew Leavitt Is an eyelash in a burning blackberry bush. He got an MFA at PNCA. He likes big butts and he cannot lie.
Kai Nollie (2012) Is the daughter of Taj Bourgeois. She creates spontaneously, unconsciously, the essence of her wonder is pure.
Michael Fisher Lives in a house in a basement and makes music, and other things there. He loves you. He wants you to be well. Marigold, I wish in.
Sadashiva Stavrum Is a devotee of Anandamayee. He likes long walks on the beach and playing with puppets. He also likes movies, and meditating.
Austin Kelley Way is from Traverse City, MI and currently lives in Knoxville, TN. He is an artist, writer, and philosopher. He is also a genetic engineer, sacred mathematician, and a nuclear arms dealer. He was born in 1990, the bastard son of David Cronenberg. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. He may or may not be the Antichrist. Don't touch this paper it's made out of acid.
Jia Gy, Finds pleasure in examining ordinary objects and sometimes presenting them in slightly altered contexts. She doesn't consider herself an artist, but a momentary expression of cells absurdly, and quietly acting and reacting to the otherness.
Rachel Pattycake is a poet and artist who lives in Chicago. her first book was published in 2014.
Shiloh O'Connor grew up in the wilds of Agness, Oregon. Every person whom he meets is affected positively, except those who are not. He is open to all possibilities that are closed.
Michael Horwitz is an artist based in Portland, Oregon. Originally from Virginia, he made his first paper doll set at age 8. He received his BFA in Film and Television from NYU’s Tisch School for the Arts and his MFA in Visual Studies from Pacific Northwest College of Art. His work has been featured in the Time Based Arts Festival, the Portland Art Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Craft, PDX Contemporary Art, Disjecta, ‘Mo-Wave Queer Arts Festival, the Independent Print Resource Center, and The Projects PDX. Before moving to Portland he worked as an editor at Marvel Comics, where he oversaw adaptations of Stephen King’s The Stand and The Dark Tower.
Jack Fisher (b.1988), As creator I've realised the potential to create art ideas outside of the context of the normal studio space 'if everything becomes disposable then the artists studio becomes portable' - most of the stuff i make is almost majority web-based or responds to ideas of role of the networked artist. I use whatever i want to make whatever i want.
In turn i find it irrelevant to create sellable 'art objects' that also hold value as physical things. Not only requiring great amounts of storage and sentimental attachment but support an elite art market structure that i find untrue and un . Now the content online has become the primary experience of my work; ive grown reluctant to keep hold of anything i find/create/arrange.
Interested in methods of exchange; idea swapping - and paying others through service sites online to produce 'art' content for me - I see it impossible for the artist to survive as an Artist and i am interested in the professional/amateur balance - I see the artist as idea maker, being a constant content producers - Often the materials i work with respond to ideas of a global economy. the idea that the artist can be a daily intervener, remixer of things and ideas to induce an alternate way of thinking for the better that might reference across all areas of society - allowing anyone that s'tumblesupon' my work (depending on the given context found) online/in public space; might react or induce some thought of unhabitual behaviour.
Walter Davis is a 21 year old pile of rocks from richmond, virginia. he enjoys sunshine and every ancient ritual. he loves laughing at anything and doesn't know what his art is ever
Karl Sims. There is a certain striving within my practice to psychologically explore the socio-cultural interplay of our time. This takes form as pragmatic experimentation carried out with a veneer of an artistic framework; it is as much an investigation of ‘I’ as it is ‘other’. The navigation of my direction I entrust to the law of reversed effort; in the spirit of that old Chinese sage Lao-tzu. I seek to utilize the most direct tools to my expressions; I feel the weather but I am in shelter, I feel companionship but I know no people, I make art but I do not know what art is.
Heiko Julien (born 1986), is an American poet, short-story writer, musician, and Internet personality. He lives in Chicago, Illinois. Julien 's stories, poetry, and essays have been published in n+1, Thought Catalog, Pop Serial, Shabby Doll House, and The Lifted Brow. His work has been described as being preoccupied with memes, media, and online community.
Corwin Peck (b.1987) lives in New York. The first thing Corwin thought he had the ability to extend was the photograph. He then acknowledged the touch screen. But language? Which meant, systems too relational to be isolated or reducibly observatory. This trend continued and formed, “images,” he hired a citizen to handle his accounts and food (so that his hands weren’t solely for, “touch,”). It’s still like this: images, ontological but mostly not. Corwin shows you some art.
Matthew Leavitt Is an eyelash in a burning blackberry bush. He got an MFA at PNCA. He likes big butts and he cannot lie.
Kai Nollie (2012) Is the daughter of Taj Bourgeois. She creates spontaneously, unconsciously, the essence of her wonder is pure.
Michael Fisher Lives in a house in a basement and makes music, and other things there. He loves you. He wants you to be well. Marigold, I wish in.
Sadashiva Stavrum Is a devotee of Anandamayee. He likes long walks on the beach and playing with puppets. He also likes movies, and meditating.
Austin Kelley Way is from Traverse City, MI and currently lives in Knoxville, TN. He is an artist, writer, and philosopher. He is also a genetic engineer, sacred mathematician, and a nuclear arms dealer. He was born in 1990, the bastard son of David Cronenberg. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. He may or may not be the Antichrist. Don't touch this paper it's made out of acid.
Jia Gy, Finds pleasure in examining ordinary objects and sometimes presenting them in slightly altered contexts. She doesn't consider herself an artist, but a momentary expression of cells absurdly, and quietly acting and reacting to the otherness.
Rachel Pattycake is a poet and artist who lives in Chicago. her first book was published in 2014.
Shiloh O'Connor grew up in the wilds of Agness, Oregon. Every person whom he meets is affected positively, except those who are not. He is open to all possibilities that are closed.
Michael Horwitz is an artist based in Portland, Oregon. Originally from Virginia, he made his first paper doll set at age 8. He received his BFA in Film and Television from NYU’s Tisch School for the Arts and his MFA in Visual Studies from Pacific Northwest College of Art. His work has been featured in the Time Based Arts Festival, the Portland Art Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Craft, PDX Contemporary Art, Disjecta, ‘Mo-Wave Queer Arts Festival, the Independent Print Resource Center, and The Projects PDX. Before moving to Portland he worked as an editor at Marvel Comics, where he oversaw adaptations of Stephen King’s The Stand and The Dark Tower.
Jack Fisher (b.1988), As creator I've realised the potential to create art ideas outside of the context of the normal studio space 'if everything becomes disposable then the artists studio becomes portable' - most of the stuff i make is almost majority web-based or responds to ideas of role of the networked artist. I use whatever i want to make whatever i want.
In turn i find it irrelevant to create sellable 'art objects' that also hold value as physical things. Not only requiring great amounts of storage and sentimental attachment but support an elite art market structure that i find untrue and un . Now the content online has become the primary experience of my work; ive grown reluctant to keep hold of anything i find/create/arrange.
Interested in methods of exchange; idea swapping - and paying others through service sites online to produce 'art' content for me - I see it impossible for the artist to survive as an Artist and i am interested in the professional/amateur balance - I see the artist as idea maker, being a constant content producers - Often the materials i work with respond to ideas of a global economy. the idea that the artist can be a daily intervener, remixer of things and ideas to induce an alternate way of thinking for the better that might reference across all areas of society - allowing anyone that s'tumblesupon' my work (depending on the given context found) online/in public space; might react or induce some thought of unhabitual behaviour.
Walter Davis is a 21 year old pile of rocks from richmond, virginia. he enjoys sunshine and every ancient ritual. he loves laughing at anything and doesn't know what his art is ever
Karl Sims. There is a certain striving within my practice to psychologically explore the socio-cultural interplay of our time. This takes form as pragmatic experimentation carried out with a veneer of an artistic framework; it is as much an investigation of ‘I’ as it is ‘other’. The navigation of my direction I entrust to the law of reversed effort; in the spirit of that old Chinese sage Lao-tzu. I seek to utilize the most direct tools to my expressions; I feel the weather but I am in shelter, I feel companionship but I know no people, I make art but I do not know what art is.
Heiko Julien (born 1986), is an American poet, short-story writer, musician, and Internet personality. He lives in Chicago, Illinois. Julien 's stories, poetry, and essays have been published in n+1, Thought Catalog, Pop Serial, Shabby Doll House, and The Lifted Brow. His work has been described as being preoccupied with memes, media, and online community.
Corwin Peck (b.1987) lives in New York. The first thing Corwin thought he had the ability to extend was the photograph. He then acknowledged the touch screen. But language? Which meant, systems too relational to be isolated or reducibly observatory. This trend continued and formed, “images,” he hired a citizen to handle his accounts and food (so that his hands weren’t solely for, “touch,”). It’s still like this: images, ontological but mostly not. Corwin shows you some art.
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Syrupy Self-Flagellation At The Shrine Of The Banana Crucifix (27 Lashes), 2015
Walter Davis
Heiko Julien
Shiloh O'Conner
