THE NEW OBSESSION

Alright people, now I have for you some truly amazing artwork that I think everyone will be able to appreciate. The exhibit "You Can Live Forever In Paradise On Earth" is running at the Kim Light Gallery in Culver City through November 1. The show is a collaborative efforts between local LA artists Simmons & Burke. The highlight are the 4 multimedia visual and audio collages. It is a complete sensory overload, complete with mind-turining audio. You will feel a way you never felt before, standing in front of colossal collages of strange digital nether regions. Its chaos. It is a giggly haze, a float through outerspace civilizations dedicated to the digital aesthetic.



There is something anarchist which shines through contrasting with the clean-cut Photoshop aesthetic used to create the image. Although Simmons & Burke use modern technology to form backbone of their images, the general collage aesthetic they are working with hails back to Hausman and Hoach, the inventors of Berlin Dada. The aspect which distinguished Berlin Dada from its peers in NY & Brussels was the strong political slant. But Simmons & Burke are not reacting to the brutalities of WWI rather the maximalism of the internet age.




The collages look like some type of "scene," you dont know whats going on but there seems to be some strange underlying warped perspective holding it all together. The scenes verge on apocalyptic, recalling the notorious Hieronymus Bosch triptychs. Add the whole time the audio adds a jarring element that makes you feel eerily displaced... like you are in a liminal spectrum.

Also, you must check out their audio only composition which the Kim Light Gallery has a separate listening room and is also available for purchase on vinyl (i think i might buy one). It sounds almost like Prefuse-73 and his propensity for messing nonseaqutor audio clips into strange narratives. Hip-hop heads must request to listen to side-B of the album to hear an amazing rendition of a Ludacris classic.

-Avant God