Observatory’s Lunar-Themed 3rd Anniversary Fundraiser Party
Come celebrate with us, and help support your favorite interdisciplinarian art, science, & occult event space. Saturday, February 18th • 8pm Admission: $20 Check out our art show, Lunation: Art on the Moon, and then trip out to a Moon Phantasmagoria show by VJ Fuzzy Bastard. We’ll also be screening episodes from the Midnight Archive, a show [...]
Our Next Observatory Show: LUNATION!
LUNATION: Art on the Moon Observatory’s first group-curated show • January 7 – February 26, 2012 Opening Party: Saturday, January 7th, 7–10 PM, FREE Artists and scientists have always been attracted to the moon… Our closest celestial neighbor, the earth’s little sister, the moon creates the tides and illuminates the woods at night. For centuries, [...]
The Society Goeth… Elsewhere
Elsewhere is a fantastic “living museum” in Greensboro, North Carolina, that Ethan and I have been invited to work with next spring. We recently went down to check it out, and here are just a few iPhone images (hopefully Ethan will supply much better photos soon) of the constantly morphing gallery-museum-organism that is Elsewhere. The [...]
History Of The Grecian Urn, Abridged
Another strange history. This is from a severely backlogged project—I reread just the epigraphs the other day and was amazed how they told a story about the object in question, the urn. Thus, today, the Hollow Earth Society presents… History of the Grecian Urn Abridged Ut urna poesis. *** Severe contemplators, observing these lasting relicks, [...]
Melancholy And Cowboys
Artist Tim Schwartz rocks. A while back, he contacted me about participating in a project called Reimagining Wild Bill for which several writers were asked to fill in the missing page of a notable article—the 1867 Harper’s Monthly account of Wild Bill’s duel with Dave Tutt in Springfield, MO. Says Schwartz: “Over the last number of [...]
crazybuildculture: NYC underverse
New York City has its skyscrapers and its subways, its parks and its asphalt. It has its Apollonian rooftops and its Dionysian pleasure enclaves, its meatpacking district clubs and absynthy Brooklyn bars and its lofty museums and libraries and such. There’s a pretty thick layer of neoclassical foundation sedimented under the modern organic, international style [...]
I Are Cyborg: Design Edition
Cyborgs as we collectively imagine them are a wholly aesthetic construction, and an outdated one at that. That’s ok! We love our retrofutures here at HES and the lovely effects they have on our eyeballs. The quaintness of a process that relies entirely on the addition of artificial body parts means we get to indulge [...]
A Designation Of One’s Own Limits: Arguments For (Auto-)Constraint
1. “The success of a revolution should not be measured by the sublime awe of its ecstatic moments, but by the changes the big Event leaves at the level of the everyday, the day after the insurrection.“ (Slavoj Žižek) This shift requires us to equip ourselves with a less simplistic notion of freedom as self-determination. [...]
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