2011

Sept 17- Oct 29, 2011
The Unseen: curated by Adela Leibowitz (New York)
Torrance Museum of Art
http://www.torranceartmuseum.com/

Documenting esoteric symbols in contemporary art.
Includes painting, installation, video, photography and drawing.

23 artists:
Noah Becker, Michelle Blade, Jonathan Cammisa and Nathan Caswell, Walt Cassidy, Center for Tactical Magic, Martha Colburn, VALIE EXPORT, Francesca Gabbiani, Sayre Gomez, Frank Haines, Michelle Handelman, Emily Noelle Lambert, Adela Leibowitz, Kirt Markle, Josh Peters, Kembra Pfahler & Katrina del Mar, Shalo P, Breyer P-Orridge, Yuval Pudik, David Ratcliff, Carolyn Salas, Kristen Schiele, Harry Smith.

The Unseen, gonzo curated by New York artist Adela Leibowitz from a Crowdsourcing project instigated by TAM, is an exhibition that focuses on the use of esoteric symbols and contemporary visual uses of what has been described as "magick" by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge,


"Control disintegrates. Magick integrates.
The idea is to apply the cut-up principle to behavior.
The method is a contemporary, non-mystical interpretation of “magick."
Thee aim is reclamation of self-determination, conscious and unconscious, to the Individual.
Thee result is to neutralize and challenge the essence of social control."
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Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, London, 1987. Excerpt from Thee Psychick Bible