Altered After catalog cover (detail), designed by Jean Foos. Image: Leslie Kaliades, still from Altered After, 1997. Video, black and white, sound, 15:07 min
Considering themes of time, caregiving, and transformation, Altered After presents artworks that incorporate archives, archaeology, salvaged objects, material migrations, inherited knowledge, and bequests in response to HIV/AIDS. For these artists, stewarding material remnants and activating new meaning from them is a form of care and also a call to bring new engagement and life to what has been lost and left behind. Their practices build bonds of kinship and give form to legacies and personal histories. The artists in Altered After are field guides reporting between worlds through paint, movement, video and film, light and chemistry, plants, everyday materials, thread, stone, pebbles, and clay.
Darrel Ellis (1958–1992)
fierce pussy
General Idea
Jerry the Marble Faun
Leslie Kaliades (1961–1999)
Kang Seung Lee
Ronald Lockett (1965–1998)
Jonathan Molina-Garcia
Cookie Mueller (1949–1989)
Raúl de Nieves
Jason Simon
Manuel Solano
Gail Thacker
Julie Tolentino
XFR Collective
Sunday, July 21, 7pm
Absolute Love
at Participant IncA performance program featuring Oluwadamilare (Dare) Ayorinde, Joselia “Jo” Hughes, and Zachary Tye Richardson, curated by Camilo Godoy
Saturday & Sunday, July 27 & 28
XFR WKND
at Participant IncA weekend of analog video transferring with XFR Collective
Thursday, August 8, 7:30pm
Record Time
at Anthology Film ArchivesA moving image program featuring Gregg Bordowitz and Jean Carlomusto for Gay Men’s Health Crisis, Colin Campbell, Barbara Hammer, Jim Hubbard, Hayat Hyatt, Tran T. Kim-Trang, and Nguyen Tan Hoang, curated by Carmel Curtis and Leeroy Kun Young Kang
Julie Tolentino, Archive In Dirt, 2019. Broken plant derived from a Harvey Milk cutting, succulent mix, and ceramic pot
Altered After, installation view with Jason Simon and Manuel Solano
Altered After, installation view
Raúl de Nieves, who would we be with out our memories, 2019. Beads, glue, and artist’s shoe
fierce pussy, Flag, 1992/2018. Five photocopies on paper
Nancy Brooks Brody, obituary series, lighthouse - from The New York Times obituary pages, 1999-2003. Graphite and gouache on newsprint
Joy Episalla, lawnchair 1, 2003. Chromogenic print mounted to plexiglass
Carrie Yamaoka, Transformatory, 1991. Photocopy on vellum
Altered After, installation view
Cookie Mueller, Title unknown, c. 1984. Clay, wooden branches, dried flowers, paint, and prosthetic eyes; Title unknown, c. 1984. Clay, wooden box, amulets, hat pins, metal knives, ribbon, and fabric
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
Altered After, installation view with Leslie Kaliades and Gail Thacker
Altered After, installation view with Darrel Ellis and Kang Seung Lee
Altered After, installation view
Altered After, installation view with General Idea and Jerry the Marble Faun
Jerry the Marble Faun, Vic, 2015; Symbol, 2007; Spirit, 2016. Limestone
Jerry the Marble Faun, Vic, 2015. Limestone
XFR Collective, Video Transfer Station, 2019. Video playback decks, time base corrector, monitor, analog-to-digital converter
Darrel Ellis, Untitled (from Darrel Ellis photo of four figures in mother's bedroom), c. 1987. Painting on canvas; Untitled (from Darrel Ellis photo of four figures in mother's bedroom), c. 1987. Painting on canvas
Altered After, installation view with Visual AIDS archival material
Altered After, installation view with Visual AIDS archival material
Altered After, installation view with Visual AIDS archival material
