Art Organism launches with a performance by Small Sails, an experimental set by Courtney Taylor-Taylor and members of the Dandy Warhols and a video by Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist. Rist is known for making art at the the intersection of pop culture and identity. She played in the Swiss art-girl-rock-band Les Reines Prochaines, one of whoms performances is described as a: "big, thick cake of bodypoems, scientific lectures, tricks, sounds, lightgames and songs. It's a performance about dangers, miracles and early history". Recently Rist was the artistic director of the 2001 Swiss National Exibition and responsible for curating into that show Scofidio and Diller's building on the lake constructed entirely of fog and documented in their book Blur:The Making of Nothing. Rist is represented by Hauser & Wirth of London, the gallery also of Jason Rhoades, the subject of Organism's next art exhibition.
Organism creates a conversation between creative artists, designers, engineers, filmmakers, architects, ecologists, musicians, entrepreneurs and scientists. Organism engages artists and creative people of international reputation through existing personal networks. In turn, the creative networks that touch Organism expand, becoming more richly interconnected.
Tickets are $15 in advance and available at the Wonder Ballroom box office. Artists in any field may become members for the coming year - it's included just this night in your admission. Early - Doors 7:30, Show at 8.
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