We invite you to partake in this event in person, & if in attendance, to support these Creators the way they deserve : Have a Conversation, Share Your Experience With Others - & Buy Some Art. We hope you’ll view ISSUE 18 as what it is : a glimpse inside the combined strengths & output of a select, distinct group of Artists, whose labor personifies the details of our aesthetic interests, & exemplify the various corners of our Company’s axis of methodology : ENGAGE + INSPIRE + SUBVERT + CREATE. Premiering at the 2016 SPRING/BREAK Art Show, GLORY HOLE focuses on the role of the artist in the modern digital age, exploring subverted levels of intimacy, sexual catharsis, worship, exhibitionism, and violence amidst the growing pains of our rapidly changing technological and interior landscape. ISSUE 18 documents our first chapter in the physical exhibition of Fine Art with GLORY HOLE - a spectacle of 75 artworks and five immersive installations curated from our most recent pages & archives, & arranged thematically in conjunction w/co-curators Rémy & Kelsey Bennett. Crawford’s thrilling analysis of end-time dreaming in the works of influential artists, writers and filmmakers shows how the religious imaginary remains integral to our cultural DNA.” (Margaret Wertheim, author of The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace and Physics on the Fringe.A Letter from the Editor BY Kaitlyn Parksįor over two years now we’ve been devoted to creating a singular forum for disruptive, inspired emergent artistry, connecting cultural outriders with brand partnership, and producing provocative content for the digital realm.
“ Dark Gnosis takes us into the heart of America’s schizophrenic relationship with the apocalypse, the simultaneous fear and fascination with The End. Dark Gnosis should take the place of every Gideons bible in every motel on Route 666.” (Mark Dery, author of I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts: Drive-By Essays on American Dread, American Dreams) Crossing the brio of his fellow Aussie Robert Hughes with an oracular style familiar from Baudrillard’s America, Crawford reveals American Christianity for the mutant thing it is: the dark side of the Enlightenment, haunted by gnostic strains and gothic tendencies. “With just the right balance of postmodern theory and pop intellectualism, Ashley Crawford explores the visions of apocalypse that were always there, in the night terrors of our New Jerusalem. Along the way, Crawford convincingly argues that such epidermal eschatology is not so much a symptom of nihilism as a mutant expression of an American gnostic religion now gone feral and deranged.” (Erik Davis, author of Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica) Casting a scalpel-sharp eye on the enigmas of fleshy abjection in recent American literature, film, and art, Crawford then links this visceral weirdness to the apocalypse cultures of the recent and distant past.
“Like the old prophets Ballard and Baudrillard, as well as Mark Dery and Slavoj Žižek (on a good day), Ashley Crawford practices cultural criticism as a high-low art of forensic pathology.
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