c through outfit

You can see our work on Saturday the 18th from 1pm to 5pm

SALAD-CHURCH-EXERCISE
A show about self-improvement through self-denial

July 4 – 18, 2009
Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S. Morgan, Chicago IL

While large-scale organs of protection and improvement, such as schools, hospitals, and prisons, enforce the social contract through a restriction of choice and a remote delegation of authority, personal or cultural techniques for redirecting and mastering libido, the inner primordial chaos we carry within, can be found in the options represented by salad, church, and exercise. The deep loyalty and repulsion aroused in modern hearts by these three everyday pursuits, and their heroic and perverse obsession with denying the desires of the body, is the starting point for the works in “Salad-Church-Exercise,” fantasies that are channeled into a polymorphous menagerie of audiovisual media.

Curated by Bert Stabler

Thaddeus Kellstadt
Paul Mack
Rachel Pollak
Oliverio Rodriguez
Christopher Santiago
Dewayne Slightweight
Edra Soto
Bert Stabler
Matthew Steinke
Susannah Kite Strang
Michael Bancroft
Noah Berlatsky
Dayton Castleman
C Through Outfit (Dawn Reed, Catie Olson, EC Brown, Carl Warnick)
Chelsea Culp
Derek Erdman
Gina Grafos
Jacob C. Hammes
Jaime Lynn Henderson
Hideous Beast
Yvie Raij