Altar

09/04/2013

  Leora Lutz submitted this review of the exhibition “OPENING” curated by Taj Robinson and Nikki Mirsaeid, in response to an assignment in my...

23/02/2013

Thanks for coming out last night for Kamau Patton.
If your longing for more or missed out.
Check out Hatch Gallery in Oakland tonight for Thinking Like the Universe.

22/02/2013

Andrew Norman Wilson s ScanOps in Aperture Spring 2013 issue

22/02/2013

If you didn't catch Bryan Morello's performance last Friday...

https://soundcloud.com/lebry/cold-boys-fire

A poem in monologue performed live in lip-synch.

19/02/2013

Opening of Altar.
Feb. 1st 2013.

08/02/2013

The Preposthumous Art World Nonfamous in Conversation with Her Himself OR a Monodrama in the Co**se Pose

live online screening: february 8, 2013, san francisco

1) visit ALTAR at st. john episcopal church in the mission district OR
2) visit moquetes.net with a pair of headphones AND
3) listen and watch while eating two large marshmallows soaked in cheap rum

PAWN is issue no. 137 of the online publication moquetes.net where moles mock the living dead of the overground. The underground site, moquetes.net, is a play on the name of an overground publictation printed twice a year in a country fond of calling itself neutral. This overground publication deserves to be parodied because it is emblematic of the new-liberal turn : not only was the publication founded in the eighties, literally distributed from a road to Mount Pelerin, but it was actually named for that haute-bourgeois flooring of stained wood strips so popular in the victim culture of catastrophe.

This underground publication you hold in your mouse is a squat inside one deactivated fort on a north-south border. The squat is called kitsch for its excessive coding: a critical overabundance that an artist -- born in missouri called minimalist -- would write was « hard to defeat.» An artist born in missouri called minimalist would write a kitsch squat was « hard to defeat » when he purchased one deactivated fort on a north-south border. The minimalist gutted the artillery sheds of the fort so they could serve as base structures for a new platinum-iridium meter of contemporary art. This measure of the phenomenon called art was to be of that particular kind of culture always already with time, or con tempo, that is, with the impermanence of presence, contemporary.

The underground publication, moquetes.net, is -- yes -- named for a misspelling; more importantly, however, it is a celebration of shaggy carpets in british bathrooms and stapled plush rugs lost to living rooms when torn out for the hard wood grid of parquet -- in other words, moquetes.net is a celebration of that fashion so easy to hate for its oh-so petite-bourgeois connotations: that heat on the feet derided by a pathology called internationalist aesthetic, a dumb desire for the whitest of pasty gum wh**ey that fetishizes the blankness and cool indifference of brain damage. Moquette? Moquer.

The logo of moquetes.net, viewable on the site when no issue is screening, does not simulate the handsewn monogram as a logo should in an overground of handcrafted mocha lattés. The logo of moquetes.net is instead a real object displayed on a shelf, a painting on board that meticulously copies pixels from a digital print on vinyl.

For the historical precedents of moquetes.net, the visitor is invited to read the magazines 391 and Projecteur.
PAWN issue no. 137 was written by Emily Verla Bovino in response to Cady Noland's Towards a Metalanguage of Evil (1989)

07/02/2013

photo by Matt Green

03/02/2013

Thanks to everyone that came out last night! Pictures coming soon!

31/01/2013

THANKS GUYS!

Tomorrow night is the opening reception for “Re/Surfaces” an exhibition featuring works by Sanjay Vora, Nancy Genn, and Angela O’Keefe. This exhibition is fueled on nostalgia and evoking a sentiment toward memories from the past which the artist’s project in their works. Sanjay Vora recalls memori...

07/01/2013

Thanks for all the likes and joins.

05/12/2012

Premier Location.

05/12/2012

Early Morning Wave Sounds