Ian Wooldridge – ultra-violence for those who qualify
1: The Interview (29.08.19 – 09.09.19)
2: The Battlefield (09.09.19 – 19.09.19)
3: Recovery (19.09.19 – 30.09.19)
4: Boy Done Good (30.09.19 – 10.10.19)
Taking cues from both physical and online advertising, the four chapters of this exhibition, each lasting roughly 10 days, will display: a pairing of a figure with a text graphic; a short story and an ornate assemblage of recast ashtrays.
I recently read:
“inversion is entangled with masochism because perversion is inevitably entangled with neurosis” ¹
it felt old
it was old
yet the next thing I stumbled on was a promo for a band called: Viagra Boys
I read that inversion is:
a way out that the child discovers
when they are about to suffocate. ²
I feel a psychedelic non-reality of self in our present condition.
I feel to tell the young monster: there is nothing.
ash collectors
memento mori
stasis non-stop
& that’s fine
for me,
for now.
1: Guy Hocquenghem, Homosexual Desire, 1972
2: Jean-Paul Sartre, Saint-Genet, Actor and Martyr, London, 1964.
ESTEEMED GENTLEMEN,
I am a poor, young, unemployed person in the business field, my name is Wenzel, I am seeking a suitable position, and I take the liberty of asking you, nicely and politely, if perhaps in your airy, bright, amiable rooms such a position might be free. I know that your good firm is large, proud, old, and rich, thus I may yield to the pleasing supposition that a nice, easy, pretty little place would be available, into which, as into a kind of warm cubbyhole, I can slip…
Saint Luke is an exhibition space initiated by the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) and its Department of Art & Media in 2019. Currently Saint Luke is curated by the BA Fine Arts students Milena Langer and Samuel Haitz. They invite students, lecturers or other artists to show their work in the space next to Club Zukunft and Bar 3000.