White Flag Projects: Saturday, 19 September 2009
Destroy All Monsters: Hungry for Death
Artwork by Mike Kelley, Cary Loren and Jim Shaw
Curated by James Hoff and Cary Loren
September 19 – October 24, 2009
Opening reception Saturday evening September 19, 7-10 PM.
Public conversation with the curators, Sunday afternoon September 20, 2 PM.
White Flag Projects is pleased to inaugurate its fourth season of exhibitions with a survey of artwork, music, video, and archival material by the seminal pre-punk/psychedelic noise group and art collective Destroy All Monsters, whose founding members included Mike Kelley, Cary Loren, Niagara and Jim Shaw.
Formed at a house party in 1973, Destroy All Monsters created a dystopian sound that was equal parts The Stooges, Albert Ayler, Sun Ra, Velvet Underground, and Sci-Fi B-movie shtick. The band's music was accompanied by artwork, performances and films, as well as a self-titled magazine of drawings, prints, and collages inspired by sci-fi movies, underground music, and iconic elements of 1960s counterculture as filtered through to the collective's industrial Midwestern hometown of Detroit, Michigan. With their music, films, and publications, the Destroy All Monsters Collective hold an important position as early innovators combining visual art and experimental music practices.
In 1995, the original collective of Mike Kelley, Cary Loren, and Jim Shaw reunited, and have since been included in the 2002 Whitney Biennial, and Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967 at the MCA Chicago, among many other exhibitions. Destroy All Monsters: Hungry for Death will also feature a limited edition poster designed exclusively for the White Flag Projects exhibition by Cameron Jamie.
Artwork by Mike Kelley, Cary Loren and Jim Shaw
Curated by James Hoff and Cary Loren
September 19 – October 24, 2009
Opening reception Saturday evening September 19, 7-10 PM.
Public conversation with the curators, Sunday afternoon September 20, 2 PM.
White Flag Projects is pleased to inaugurate its fourth season of exhibitions with a survey of artwork, music, video, and archival material by the seminal pre-punk/psychedelic noise group and art collective Destroy All Monsters, whose founding members included Mike Kelley, Cary Loren, Niagara and Jim Shaw.
Formed at a house party in 1973, Destroy All Monsters created a dystopian sound that was equal parts The Stooges, Albert Ayler, Sun Ra, Velvet Underground, and Sci-Fi B-movie shtick. The band's music was accompanied by artwork, performances and films, as well as a self-titled magazine of drawings, prints, and collages inspired by sci-fi movies, underground music, and iconic elements of 1960s counterculture as filtered through to the collective's industrial Midwestern hometown of Detroit, Michigan. With their music, films, and publications, the Destroy All Monsters Collective hold an important position as early innovators combining visual art and experimental music practices.
In 1995, the original collective of Mike Kelley, Cary Loren, and Jim Shaw reunited, and have since been included in the 2002 Whitney Biennial, and Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967 at the MCA Chicago, among many other exhibitions. Destroy All Monsters: Hungry for Death will also feature a limited edition poster designed exclusively for the White Flag Projects exhibition by Cameron Jamie.
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