Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Tongue Kiss, 2003. Mixed media
Paul Thek, Untitled #75, 1964. Wax, Plexiglas, metal. Meat Cable, 1968-1969. Courtesy of The Watermill Center Collection
Artists: Charles Atlas, Alvin Baltrop, Timothy Carey, Johanna Constantine, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Marti Domination, Scott Ewalt, Georg Gatsas, Brandon Olson, Kembra Pfahler, Cynthia Plaster Caster, Tabboo! (Stephen Tashjian), Paul Thek
PARTICIPANT INC is pleased to present Dead Flowers, a group exhibition based on the work of actor/director Timothy Carey, curated by Lia Gangitano for Vox Populi, an artist collective in Philadelphia, where it was previously on view (March 5 – May 2, 2010). 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, are 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.
Performances:
Monday May 10, 7pm
Cynthia Plaster Caster, Talking Dick and Tit, a monologueSunday June 20, 8pm
Johanna Constantine, Veil April 24 2010 Breyer P-Orridge, PANDROGENY RANT Marti Domination & Beaut, Take My HandScreenings curated by Ed Halter:
Sunday May 23, 7:30pm, Andrew Meyer, Edward Owens, Steven Arnold
Sunday June 6, 7:30pm, Werner Schroeter, Luther Price
Sunday June 13, 7:30pm, Suzie Silver, GB Jones, Tom Rubnitz, Vaginal Davis
Supported by the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative, this project is a collaboration of PARTICIPANT INC and Vox Populi, an artist-run nonprofit in Philadelphia.
Marti Domination, Max, 2009. Eva, 2009. Eyelashes, 2010. Stewart, 2008.* *The Skeleton Boy, 2008. Jessika T, 2008. Cynthia, 2010.
All C-print in vintage glass frame, Eyelashes and Cynthia: Giclee print in handmade Plexiglas frame.
Scott Ewalt, Catgirl 1962, 2010, Archival print
Cynthia Plaster Caster, Plaster Caster Suitcase, 1968. Black metal suitcase
#00053, Mike Diana, 03/04/95, #00004, Jimi Hendrix, 02/25/68, #00020, Harvey Mandel, 07/10/69, #00047, Jello Biafra, 04/29/91, #00005, Noel Redding, 03/30/68,* *#00011, Wayne Kramer, 02/26/69
Works on wall: Mark Lindsay Love Portrait, 1966, Ink on paper, David Yow’s Plaster Casted Dick, 2002, Bic pen on paper, George Harrison Love Portrait, 1965 or ’66, Ink on paper
Breast casts, #00019, Sally Timms, 7/22/01, #00011, Peaches, 5/9/01, #00020, Sally Timms, 7/22/01, #00012, Peaches, 5/9/01, Plaster
Dead Flowers, Installation View. George Gatsas, Signal the Future, 2010, Table collage, 2 tables with paper objects. Alvin Baltrop, Untitled (from the series “Pier Photographs”), 1975-1986, 13 silver-gelatin prints, various dimensions. Courtesy The Alvin Baltrop Trust
Kembra Pfahler, Man-o-war, 2010. Pool table, papier mache, paint
Johanna Constantine, Void, Performance, 2010.
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Performance at Dead Flowers NYC, 2010.
Tabboo! (Stephen Tashjian) and Brandon Olson, Performance at Dead Flowers NYC, 2010
Beaut performing Take my Hand, 2010.
