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For the closing reception of my solo exhibition 'The Axis of Something', I have curated a group projection event:

CLUSTERFUCK ZOO at Transfer Gallery, 1030 Metropolitan Ave., Brooklyn, New York.

Saturday July 13th, 7:00 - 11:00 pm.

"Clusterfuck Zoo”, an evening of animated GIF projections and alcohol, will focus on animal otherness, charismatic mega-fauna fights

and cross-species romance (always the romance). Are Unicorns animals? (yes) Does road-kill count (yes)

Featuring GIFs from: Alma Alloro, Anthony Antonellis, LaTurbo Avedon, Andrew Benson, Max Capacity, Jon Cates,

Gaby Cepeda, Jennifer Chan, Jesse Darling, Theodore Darst, Leanne Eisen, Christina Entcheva, Manuel Fernández,

Paul Flannery, Dafna Ganani, Carla Gannis, Emilio Gomariz, Alexandra Gorczynski, Lilly Handley, Adam Harms,

Kevin Heckart, Mattie Hillock, Faith Holland, Georges Jacotey, Nicole Killian, Hyo Myoung Kim, Rollin Leonard,

Michael Manning, Claudia Maté, Sally McKay, Rosa Menkman, Rea McNamara & Tony Halmos, A Bill Miller, Rich Oglesby,

Esteban Ottaso, Eva Papamargariti, Niko Princen, Dylan Romer, Carlos Sáez, Alfredo Salazar–Caro, Travess Smalley,

Miyö Van Stenis, Tristan Stevens, Yoshi Sodeoka, Daniel Temkin, Carolyn Tripp, Rodell Warner, Angela Washko,

Sarah Weiss, V5MT, Matthew Williamson and Giselle Zantonyl


- L.M. 7-09-2013 1:15 pm [link] [9 refs] [add a comment]


Vince Mckelvie


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This reliquary purportedly contains bits of the skull of a 12-year old virgin girl (Sainte Foy). She was beheaded for refusing to make an offering to the goddess Diana. The figure has an uncanny presence -- the over-sized masculine head was taken from another sculpture.

Reliquary Statue of Sainte Foy, Abbey church of Conques, France, Late 9th or 10th century

In the Middle Ages, people would make pilgrimmages to get up close to bits of bodies of dead saints, and when they came to your church, they'd make a donation, so relics were economically important. This relic was stolen from the church at Agen by a monk from Conques, who claimed that the saint wanted to be moved to the Abbey at Conques, which became a major pilgrimmage destination (Southern France). As Pamela Sheingorn claims, in the introduction to her translation of The Book of Sainte Foy, "…to many pilgrims, the reliquary statue was the living saint who could hear and see them and, most important of all, could grant their petitions." (Sheingorn, p.17).

This whole business of worshipping relics gave some Medieval Christians pause... wasn't this getting pretty close to idolatry? Sort of ironic that people would be worshipping the golden statue of a saint who had been martyred for refusing to worship pagan gods. Marilyn Stokstad and Michael Cothren bring this up in their text book, Art History (4E). They explain that a medieval scholar, Bernard of Angers, was worried about this particular relic, and he wrote, "To learned people this may seem to be full of superstition, if not unlawful for it seems as if the rites of the gods of ancient cultures, or that the rites of demons are being observed." After he visited the relic, however, and saw how people were interacting with it, he changed his mind, "For the holy image is consulted not as an idol that requires sacrifices, but because it commemorates a martyr. Since reverence to her honors God on high, it was despicable of me to compare her statue to statues of Venus or Diana. Afterwards I was very sorry that I had acted so foolishly toward God's saint." (Stokstad, p.462)


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In other July 4th news, Yoshi Sodeoka makes brilliant, as usual, on AFC with some holiday themed gifs.

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