BAD MOON RISING Special

BAD MOON RISING special

Friday, September 12, 2008 - 7PM
curated by Jan Van Woensel

7PM: One-day Exhibition
8PM: Live Music Performance by Glass Ghost
(myspace.com/glass1ghost)

ISCP: International Studio & Curatorial Program
1040 Metropolitan Avenue, 2nd Fl.
Brooklyn, NY 11211
www.iscp-nyc.org

Vanessa Albury / Diana Artus (ISCP) / Richard Ashcroft / Elena Bajo (ISCP) / Kelie Bowman / Greggory Bradford / Olaf Breuning / Bettina Cohnen (ISCP) / Body Count / Emily Coxe / James De La Vega / Liam Everett / Lonnie Frisbee & David di Sabatino / Tony Garifalakis (ISCP) / Charlie Halsey / George Hennard / Annegret Hoch (ISCP) / Pamela Jue / Paulus Kapteyn / Richard Kern / David Matorin / Clayton Patterson / Job Piston / Luther Price / Lee Ranaldo / Max Razdow / Yoji Sakate / Jan Serych (ISCP) / Marie Snauwaert / Philippe Vandenberg

For the second ISCP Picture Parlor, the Bad Moon Rising special exhibition presents art that focuses on sociological and anthropological observations of contemporary life. The exhibition zooms in on individual and collective behavior influenced by culture, attitudes, emotions, values, ethics and authority. Bad Moon Rising special exposes examples of how the contemporary human navigates unstable environments and investigates emotions and states of being such as boredom, loneliness, isolation, escapism, fear, self-protection, anarchy, aggression, commitment, community, power, obedience and disobedience…

Curated by independent curator Jan Van Woensel, Bad Moon Rising is an ongoing project launched at Silverman Gallery, San Francisco in December 2007. Bad Moon Rising in San Francisco primarily focused on social, religious and political disturbance in the US. A varied selection of artworks, artifacts and a-historical references exposed some dark sides of the world’s self-proclaimed greatest nation. Participants included Rage Against the Machine, Tariq Ali, Claire Fontaine, Ben Vautier, Custer’s Revenge, The Weather Underground and others.