Dead Flowers
Subtitle: Charles Atlas,  Alvin Baltrop, Genesis Breyer P-orridge, Timothy Carey, Johanna Constantine, Marti Domination, Scott Ewalt, Georg Gatsas, Brandon Olson, Kembra Pfahler, Cynthia Plaster Caster, Tabboo! (Stephen Tashjian), Paul Thek
By: curator/editor, Lia Gangitano
Contributors: Vox Populi (Gallery); Participant Inc
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Vox Populi
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Philadelphia, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780980232424
Subjects: American Art; Exhibitions; Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Description: Vox Populi and PARTICIPANT INC are pleased to present Dead Flowers, a group exhibition based on the work of actor/director Timothy Carey. Carey became known as a pioneer of underground film due to his rarely seen 1962 film, 'The World's Greatest Sinner'. Screenings of this and other unreleased films by Carey, as well as a presentation of his ephemera and artifacts, will be organized in cooperation with Romeo Carey, the artist's son and Executor of the Timothy Carey Estate. The exhibition draws themes from Carey's unique correlation between his life and work, which sought to define what it means to be an artist through an uncompromising understanding of the meaning of success ... Dead Flowers brings together an intergenerational group of artists to address such shifting methodologies, ideals, aesthetics, and working models, as expressed by works from the late 60s and 70s (by Alvin Baltrop, Paul Thek, and Cynthia Plaster Caster), and contemporary works by subsequent generations of artists (including Kembra Pfahler, Scott Ewalt, Marti Domination, Georg Gatsas, and Johanna Constantine) and of course, both, as many of the artists' work spans this entire period. The exhibition aims to address the relationship between alternative and mass culture by bringing together a small group of artists who have consistently aligned themselves with communities outside the mainstream, and entered the dominant fields of art and film, sporadically and to critical effect, as uncompromising proof that other ways of working are possible - inside and outside traditional expectations of the artist - to rewrite rules of artistic production through conscious economic and critical efficiency.--http://voxpopuligallery.org.
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Vox Populi, Philadelphia, Mar. 5-May 2, 2010 and at Participant Inc., New York, May 9-June 20, 2010.

Artists included: Charles Atlas, Alvin Baltrop, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Timothy Carey, Johanna Constantine, Marti Domination, Scott Ewalt, Georg Gatsas, Brandon Olson, Kembra Pfahler, Cynthia Plaster Caster, Tabboo! (Stephan Tashjian), Paul Thek.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Truth to the situation  -- Johanna Fateman; title: Thirteen  -- Randal Wilcox; title: Alvin Baltrop: pier photographs, 1975-1986  -- Douglas Crimp; title: Origins of COUM Transmissions  -- Genesis Breyer P-orridge; title: Timothy Carey, the refusal of the repressed  -- Gary Indiana; title: Making sinner, a work-in-progress  -- Romeo Carey; title: Cinema justice  -- Vassily Bourikas; title: Film screenings --; title: Deer monster  -- Antony; title: Lost forever  -- Max G. Morton; title: Reinventing the peel: burlesque, Lilly Christine and the art of Scott Ewalt  -- Doug McClemont; title: Alexandra Blättler talks to Georg Gatsas  -- Alexandra Blättler; title: One night in New York--  -- Bruce La Bruce; title: The volumptuous horror of the vagina: Kembra Pfahler and the impenetrable unconscious  -- Michael Vannoy Adams; title: Beyond joy and evil: midnight in the garden of the Plaster Caster Foundation  -- Vaginal Davis; title: Tabboo!'s fairy tale renaissance  -- Elisabeth Kley; title: On (not) being forgotten  -- Gary Indiana; title: Against Paul  -- Eileen Myles; title: Dead flower film screenings -- Ed Halter.