ALTERED AFTER—a group show at Participant Inc featuring work by Darrel Ellis, fierce pussy, General Idea, Jerry the Marble Faun, Leslie Kaliades, Kang Seung Lee, Ronald Lockett, Jonathan Molina Garcia, Cookie Mueller, Raúl de Nieves, Jason Simon, Manuel Solano, Gail Thacker, Julie Tolentino, and XFR Collective—incorporates “archives, archaeology, salvaged objects, material migrations, inherited knowledge, and bequests in response to HIV/AIDS.”*
The exhibition is curated by Conrad Ventur for Visual AIDS.
“I’ve learned that we have to find our own saviors. For me, I like to create a fantasy, and one of the ways I’ve found beauty is by stacking beads on top of each other. I usually work in circles and let time shape the work…
“I guess I choose shoes as a vehicle to adorn myself, to give off different identities… The shoes are very organic. I actually see them grow. It pushes me to want to learn more about weight and design, to push them into new forms. But I also want them to design themselves in a way.” — Raúl de Nieves
In conjunction with ALTERED AFTER, Anthology Film Archives and Visual AIDS present RECORD TIME, a free evening of films and videos on August 8, curated by Carmel Curtis and Leeroy Kun Young Kang.
The program includes SOMETHING FIERCE (1989)—Greg Bordowitz and Jean Carlomusto’s video for Gay Men’s Health Crisis—Colin Campbell’s SKIN (1990), Nguyen Tan Hoang’s K.I.P. (2002), Hayat Hyatt’s VILLANELLE (2015), Tran T. Kim-Trang’s KORE (1994), Barbara Hammer’s VITAL SIGNS (1991), and Jim Hubbard’s THE DANCE (1992).
Through August 18.
Participant, Inc
253 East Houston Street, #1, New York City.
Thursday, August 8, at 7:30 pm.
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue (at 2nd Street), New York City.
Altered After, Participant, Inc, 2019, from top: Manuel Solano, Untitled, from the series, An Interior, A Sensation, An Instant, 2019, acrylic on canvas, courtesy and © the artist and Peres Projects, Berlin; Darrel Ellis, Untitled (from Thomas Ellis photo of child’s birthday party), circa 1990, gelatin silver print, courtesy and © the Estate of Darrel Ellis and OSMOS; Altered After installation views (3), including shoes by Raúl de Nieves; fierce pussy, Flag, 1992/2019, five photocopies on paper, courtesy and © the artist; Greg Bordowitz and Jean Carlomusto for Gay Men’s Health Crisis, Something Fierce (1989, 3:30 minutes, video), still, courtesy and © the artists and ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries; Colin Campbell, Skin (1990, 18 min, 16mm), still, courtesy and © the artist and V Tape; Altered After installation view, including a painting by Darrel Ellis and a section of Kang Seung Lee, Untitled (Garden) , 2018, 24K Nishijin gold thread on Sambe, ceramic (California clay, soils from Derek Jarman’s Garden, Nam San, Tapgol Park), pebbles from Dungeness and Tapgol Park, metal parts and dried plants from Derek Jarman’s Garden, courtesy and © the artist and ONE AND J. Gallery, Seoul; Kang Seung Lee, Untitled (Garden) detail; Jason Simon, Untitled (Video Against AIDS), 2013. three facsimile cassette wraps and original printed materials designed by Hannah H. Alderfer, courtesy and © the artist and Callicoon Fine Arts, New York; detail of Altered After exhibition catalog cover, designed by Jean Foos, image by Leslie Kaliades, still from Altered After, 1997, video, black and white, sound, 4:45 minutes; Altered After installation views (2); Tran T. Kim-Trang, Kore (1994, 17 min, video), still, courtesy and © the artist and Video Data Bank. Images courtesy Participant, Inc.
