Stuff at the Swiss

Rita Ackermann & Harmony Korine, bmxhex, 2010

Rita Ackermann & Harmony Korine, Trouble is Comin, 2010

Rita Ackermann & Harmony Korine, High powered tramps, 2010

from the swiss institute's website:

Shadow Fux, the artists’ first collaborative presentation aims to create a veritable alien, who stalks the viewer from the fringe of the exhibition space. Taking the recent film Trash Humpers (2009) as its point of departure, the exhibition features large scale works in which Ackermann and Korine have collaged, painted, and drawn over stills of the film’s beguiling young bodies with old faces. Produced in a call and response method, the collaboration illustrates the importance of cutting to both artists’ works. Editing and splicing, Ackermann and Korine insert absurdist moments into narrative tropes, subverting plotlines and ultimately defying our expectations towards story telling. Bmxhex (2010), a towering collage, is composed of two scenes––a redheaded half-figure standing on an abandoned mattress, and, grafted onto it, a quarreler sitting on a BMX, ready to take off. The composition is a phantom for the split personality, which runs throughout the show.

... in other words, CRAZY SHIT! i'm not sure how i feel about the work, but it left an impression. i quess that's says something...maybe. wtf?!