The New York show of Meat after Meat Joy opens in just a few days on Thursday night at Daneyal Mahmood Gallery! There will be some special pieces the night of the opening only. If you can make it for the opening, I highly encourage it. Also the essay for the catalog that will be available is now posted. It is a great essay which I think talks about the diverse amount of work eloquently. You can read it here...http://www.daneyalmahmood.com/meataftermeatjoy_text.html
Also, if you are in DC on Friday night, you can purchase my work in the Civilians for Obama fund raiser! See info below for full details.
406 7th Street NW, Third Floor, Washington, DC 20004 p. 202.347.0022 / f. 202-280-1086
Please join Civilian Art Projects, DJs Will Eastman (Blisspop) and Jonathan Ackerman (the Moon Goons, Minneapolis) and over 40 artists from across the USA (and London!) as we dance, raise a drink, and work to get Barack Obama into the White House.
$25 at the door gets you in the door and one complimentary drink.All artwork is for sale at $500 (and below) with the majority of the proceeds going to the campaign.This show is ONE NIGHT ONLY so get there early!!
List of participating artists:
Deborah M. Carroll Anzinger Matthew Best Megan Blafas Lisa Blas Judy Byron Lynn Cazabon Natalie Cheung Billy Colbert Jeffry Cudlin Kate Damon & John Beebe Mary Early* Steve Frost Ana Elisa Fuentes Lee Gainer Victoria F. Gaitán Pat Goslee Jason Matthews Gottlieb Pat Graham Jeremy Haik Jason Horowitz** Mike Iacavone David Ibata Amanda Kleinman Brian Knight Joseph Lamour Kate MacDonnell Andrew McDermott Kate McGraw Sean Quinn Rick Reinhard Rachele Riley Brady Robinson Marc Roman Melanie Standage Sanjay Suchak John Ulaszek*** Rachel Waldron Jenny Walton Joshua Yospyn
This show opens Thursday, October 16th.For those who will be in the New York Area in the next month, please stop by and check out the show!I hope I can see many of you at the opening!
Zhang Huan, My New York, Performance Whitney Biennial,2002
Meat After Meat Joy, curated by Heide Hatry
16 October - 15 November
opening reception:
Thursday 16 October, 5:30 - 8:30 PM
Sheffy Bleier, Lauren Bockow, Adam Brandejs, Tania Bruguera, Nezaket Ekici, Anthony Fisher, Betty Hirst, Zhang Huan, Tamara Kostianovsky, Simone Racheli, David Raymond, Dieter Roth, Carolee Schneemann, Stephen j Shanabrook, Jana Sterbak, Jenny Walton, Pina Yolacan
If the flesh disturbs you, then the reality behind the issue would disturb you far more if we opened our eyes long enough to see it. We live in a culture disconnected from what it is doing to itself and others, we choose to ignore rather than deal with the reality we have created for ourselves.
- Adam Brandejs
Meat After Meat Joy brings together the work of contemporary artists who use meat in their work (raw meat, the concept of meat, its symbolism and viscera) in order to investigate the paradoxical relationship meat has to the body. Meat combines flesh, skin, muscle, organs, blood - each with its own relationship to the body, yet meat's only reference to the body is as a once-upon-a-time living biological thing. By putting these artists together, the exhibition seeks to investigate the uncanny effect meat as a medium is for artist and viewer. This is not a show about meat as spectacle but about meat as signification, precisely because meat does not signify (a body) but its very annihilation...read more
- Heide Hatry
info@daneyalmahmood.com DANEYAL MAHMOOD GALLERY 511 WEST 25 ST, 3FL NEW YORK CITY 10001 phone: 212 675 2966 Tues.-Sat. 11am to 6pm
'The Meat Show' This is what you call raw art: Heide Hatry, the daughter of a Bavarian pig farmer and an artist who once wallpapered a room with a porker's skin, has assembled a wild survey of the meanings of meat. Central to the show are Carolee Schneemann's notorious sex-with-chickens dance orgy from 1964, Meat Joy, and Zhang Huan's stroll through Manhattan in a muscled costume of dark-red beef. Other trenchant works include Tamara Kostianovsky's sirloin mimicry with fabric, Jenny Walton's painting of an oozing wound, and Betty Hirst's figures carved from frozen roast, which bleed as they thaw. Be forewarned: After staging a similar show, Hatry became a committed vegetarian. Daneyal Mahmood Gallery, 511 West 25th Street, 212-675-2966.
I just wanted to share the news that the Meat after Meat Joy show in Boston made it to the PBS Art:21 blog!!!! Yeah! Below is the link...
Jenny
Meat After Meat Joy By Sarah Sliwa One of the last shows I saw in the United States before leaving for Belgium was Meat After Meat Joy, an exhibit of 10 contemporary artists who use meat in their work, that was on display June 21- July 20 at the Pierre Menard Gallery in ... Art21 Blog - http://blog.art21.org
There was a pretty great interview with Heide Hatry, the curator of the show "Meat after Meat Joy" by Christian Holland of Big Red & Shiny. You can read the article by clicking here.
The opening was fabulous and I was fortunate to be able to attend. There were a lot of people in attendance. I'm not sure if they came for the idea of spectacle the show presented, but I'm certainly hoping they came away with a much deeper understanding of the relationship between artist and subject.
I spoke with the director of Pierre Menard last week and they are extending the show's schedule in Cambridge through this month, so you may still have some time to go check it out. I have to say it is a true pleasure to be showing with the other artists in the show.
Meat meets art in Cambridge gallery By Christopher Loh Thu Jun 26, 2008, 06:42 AM EDT
Cambridge -
The title of the art show at the Pierre Menard Gallery raises a lot of questions, and even fewer answers, which may be a good thing for the artists of the “Meat After Meat Joy” exhibition.
The 10 artists whose works decorate the exhibit, which opened Saturday, used animal meat as a medium in some form or another.
Some artists used meat as an actual tool to create their art — Zuang Huan filmed himself walking around New York City in a body suit made of meat — while others, like David Raymond, used meat as their subject matter.
“[Meat] struck me as having visual properties I had not explored,” said Raymond, whose paintings are featured in the show. “I was more interested in treating it like a post-life subject and began to use butcher cuts of meats — rib roast, pork chops, steaks — which struck me as something as a commoditization as a designed object meant for sale, meant to at first, attract someone for sale. I found that an interesting angle worth investigating.”
Raymond began working with meat intensely in 1990 when he noticed a piece of chuck steak.
“Up close, it looked like a piece of geography,” Raymond said. “If you think about the nature of organic things, they share properties, it’s that organic-ness, that soft-growth pattern of things. Now, they’re altered by someone making a cut or shape, like a road cutting through the earth.”
Visitors to the gallery can examine a flag made of pure raw meat and meat fat.
The flag’s sculptor, Betty Hirst, also produced an opened book made of frozen raw meat and, possibly disturbing, a baby girl on a pink blanket composed of dried meat.
The show’s curator and fellow meat artist, Heide Hatry, grew up on a pig farm and said for her, meat is a “primordial fact of life, even if it is a highly problematic one.”
Hatry said the show, entitled, “Meat After Meat Joy,” hails from a performance by Carolee Schneeman in the 1960s. The show consisted of “scantily” dressed people “writhing and interacting” among dead animals and animal parts — the show, in some part seemed to be a celebration of life as the tone was joyous even though life ultimately results in death. The show also acted as a statement that people “embrace the forces of destruction.”
While Raymond’s exploration into the visual aspects of meat is not meant to be a political statement on the treatment of animals — Raymond does eat meat, although he finds the treatment of animals for slaughter disturbing — for some, the work displayed in “Meat After Meat Joy” will definitely raise those questions.
“We hope that this exhibit causes people to stop and think about the experience inflicted on millions of chickens, lambs, pigs, cows and other animals every day — and consider stopping this cycle of violence by trying a humane vegetarian diet,” said David Perle, spokesman for the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals organization.
Nathan Censullo, who works at the gallery, insisted the works were not meant to be statements on the audience’s dietary habits.
“I don’t necessarily think this has anything to do with making a commentary on people’s diets,” Censullo said. “It’s a bunch of people looking at the same material and finding value for what they want to do. That’s sort of the interesting thing — it’s a bizarre, weird activity. There’s not a whole lot of people that are doing this. Not that this hasn’t been done before, but that doesn’t matter, it’s what we’re doing now.”
June 21 through July 20, 2008 Opening Reception: Saturday, June 21, 6 - 9pm
Curated by Heide Hatry, Meat After Meat Joy investigates the paradoxical relationship meat has to the body. Meat combines flesh, skin, muscle, organs, blood — yet meat's only reference to the body is as a once-upon-a-time living biological thing. By putting these artists together, Meat After Meat Joy seeks to investigate the uncanny effect meat has as a medium for artist and viewer. This group exhibition brings together the work of 10 contemporary artists who use meat in their practice
Nezaket Ekici / Anthony Fisher / Betty Hirst / Zhang Huan Tamara Kostianovsky / David Raymond / Dieter Roth Carolee Schneemann / Jana Sterbak Jenny Walton
Through explorations in science, medicine, and the idea of faith I hope to explore events that are beautiful, horrific, and touch the sublime. Included are subjects of biology, micro and macro environments, life cycles, and nature as it applies to the human condition specific to moments of injury or events in a body’s history.The work expresses the pushing and pulling of nature, the construction and deterioration of body, and the evidence that eludes to a history of injury.
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