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ArcofaJourney
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"Ecstasy"- Psychedelic exhibit, LA Museum of Contemporary Art
#4892925 - 11/04/05 08:57 AM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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Hey everyone out there in psychedelia, check this out. Has anyone been there?
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-et-ecstasy11oct11,0,5822693.story?coll=cl-art
Some exhibits:
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Re: "Ecstasy"- Psychedelic exhibit, LA Museum of Contemporary Art [Re: ArcofaJourney]
#4893192 - 11/04/05 10:12 AM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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Bumping this up, i want more to see this
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Re: "Ecstasy"- Psychedelic exhibit, LA Museum of Contemporary Art [Re: ArcofaJourney]
#4893198 - 11/04/05 10:14 AM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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Holey shit 
Here's a mini link for you all: http://tinyurl.com/9zgcz
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Edited by mikeyboy (11/04/05 10:21 AM)
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Re: "Ecstasy"- Psychedelic exhibit, LA Museum of Contemporary Art [Re: ArcofaJourney]
#4893202 - 11/04/05 10:15 AM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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It sounds cool, but the LA Times link seems to be broken. Neat pictures though. I suppose it would be stupid to ask if this would be a good museum to go to while tripping.
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Re: "Ecstasy"- Psychedelic exhibit, LA Museum of Contemporary Art [Re: WillieTomg]
#4893268 - 11/04/05 10:37 AM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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Copy and paste the whole link.
Here are some more:
http://www.laweekly.com/ink/05/49/features-miles.php
http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/drohojowska-philp/drohojowska-philp10-21-05.asp
and more pictures:
Roxy Paine Psilocybe Cubensis Field 1997 Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Assume Vivid Astro Focus Homo Crap #1 (detail) 2004 Photo by Brian Forrest
Klaus Weber Public Fountain LSD Hall 2003 Photo by Brian Forrest
i'd like to take a sip from the LSD fountain!!!  i realize this should probably be in the art, music, and Lit section, my bad.
Full article:
THE ART TRIP
by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp
"Ecstasy: In and About Altered States," Oct. 9, 2005-Feb. 20, 2006, at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, 152 North Central Avenue, Los Angeles, Ca. 90013
"Ecstasy" is the closest thing to an LSD flashback that you?re likely to see, a "sensation" in the truest meaning of the term. The strobe lights alone are enough to jump-start long-dormant memories, many of them quite pleasant.
The exhibition of 30 international artists at Los Angeles? Museum of Contemporary Art is bound to break attendance records, which is unfortunate because you don?t want to see it in a crowd. Like the mind-altering experiences that the art is meant to emulate, you?ll want peak alone, or perhaps in communion with a friend or loved one. But trust me, the best moments are all about you and your senses. If I remember correctly, that was the promise of LSD.
That promise begins in the first gallery of the cavernous art warehouse known as the Geffen Contemporary. Berlin-based artist Klaus Weber (b. 1967) has installed a cut-glass fountain bubbling with a clear liquid purported to be LSD, formulated in a homeopathic lab. Unsurprisingly, the work is secured behind glass walls and is all but impossible to reach. The implicit tease is whether or not it would be worth it to find out if the liquid is what the artist says it is. Is the art bound to represent truth? Is the museum?
With that tantalizing thought rattling around in the back of your mind, walk to the opposite gallery and have the first many enforced solo experiences in this show. This would be alien abduction courtesy of Sylvie Fleury. Climb into the metallic gold orb, a guard shuts the door and twinkly colored lights flicker amid the crystals embedded in black velvet to a muffled sound track of voices, amusing remarks in a familiar foreign accent that turns out to be who else? Zsa Zsa Gabor, starring in Queen of Outer Space. Even without being under the influence, the experience brought tears of laughter.
Fleury?s voyage to the stars might have been the high point of this delightful exhibition were it not for Carsten H?ller, whose installation is inventive, riveting, hilarious. You walk down a pitch-black corridor reminiscent of an old funhouse, turning this way and that, eyes trying to make out a glimmer of light in the distance and BAM! you?re in a white room that is incandescent with lights embedded in the white floor, while huge orange mushrooms turn slowly hanging from the ceiling. I haven?t used the word "mind-blowing" since the days of yore but the Upside Down Mushroom Room is the occasion to revive it.
It is a hard act to follow, but the other artists manage. Edwin Redl has constructed an architectural matrix of tiny green lights; Olafur Eliasson has contributed a 1996 sculpture of contained falling rain that appears to be suspended in space by the effect of the flashing strobe lights; Pierre Huyghe?s small stage emits shrouds of tinted fog and an ethereal calm.
In Italian artist Massimo Bartolini?s seamless white chamber, I felt as though I was floating, insolated and insulated, the only reference to the outside world being an amateur Southwest landscape painting and a climate recording device. Again, the museum guard lets in only one viewer at a time, providing a momentary if disorienting escape from the show?s carnival atmosphere.
I was back in the mix, so to speak, in the next gallery that had been converted into a disco by the artist known as Assume Vivid Astro Focus, with pulsing dance music, mirror ball and huge model of an inflatable sex doll with male and female faces doing a backbend over a neon phallus. Well, goodness me, all I needed was a popper!
Already, "Ecstasy" is being jokingly referred to as "MOCA?s ?shroom show," thanks to Takashi Murakami?s mural-length painting of mushrooms, Chiho Aoshima?s psychedelic video, Roxy Paine?s handmade Psylocybe Cubensis Field of mushrooms and the aforementioned Carsten H?ller installation. But still other mind-expanding drugs are on offer. Tom Friedman used Play-Doh to make pills and Fred Tomaselli showed his familiar but highly appropriate psychedelic mandala paintings of marijuana leaves and pills.
One of most subtly humorous gestures came from Yeppe Heim, who motorized a museum wall so that it slowly closes off the gallery entrance. He also motorized two museum benches, making them move along the floor whenever anyone sits down. One hopes that he also hooked up a video camera to catch those "Candid Camera" moments when oblivious visitors are suddenly shuttled across the room.
Paul Schimmel is the only curator who could have pulled off this wild m?lange. In 1992, he propelled a generation of L.A. artists to international recognition with MoCA?s controversial exhibition "Helter Skelter." He understands "high concept," if you?ll excuse the pun. An intellectual and art historian, he also gets that contemporary art can still make sparks fly. His show is so rewarding and so surprising that it boosts hope for the entire enterprise.
"Ecstasy" brings contemporary art back to where it belongs, into the province of consenting and informed adults. It contradicts a larger museum trend toward do-gooder, expository, or political exhibitions. There is scarcely a wall label in the whole place and I cannot imagine what the docents will have to say to the school children. Unless there is a docent somewhere who can point out that "Ecstasy," most importantly, is about transcendent moments of visual and sensory experience.
HUNTER DROHOJOWSKA-PHILP is author of Full Bloom: The Art and Life of Georgia O'Keeffe, published by W.W. Norton.
Edited by ArcofaJourney (11/04/05 10:39 AM)
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Re: "Ecstasy"- Psychedelic exhibit, LA Museum of Contemporary Art [Re: WillieTomg]
#4893272 - 11/04/05 10:39 AM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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the fountain has ACTUAL LSD in it? hmm I dont know about that..BUT I sure would like to reach over that class and dip my finger in...
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Re: "Ecstasy"- Psychedelic exhibit, LA Museum of Contemporary Art [Re: ipickPA]
#4893279 - 11/04/05 10:42 AM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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Haha i don't think so imagine the price
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ArcofaJourney
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Re: "Ecstasy"- Psychedelic exhibit, LA Museum of Contemporary Art [Re: ipickPA]
#4893281 - 11/04/05 10:42 AM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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i don't think there is real lsd in there, but it would be nice to have that in my living room if it were....hehe
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Re: "Ecstasy"- Psychedelic exhibit, LA Museum of Contemporary Art [Re: ArcofaJourney]
#4893443 - 11/04/05 11:37 AM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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if i ever go there, im gonna tie something to a string and fling it over that glass and scoop up some of that water.
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Re: "Ecstasy"- Psychedelic exhibit, LA Museum of Contemporary Art [Re: ArcofaJourney]
#4894986 - 11/04/05 06:14 PM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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May I ask where the LA Museum of Contemporary art is located?
At first I thought you meant LACMA, but I suppose that if it was LACMA then it would be stated as such.
I'd like to visit, it's only a half-hour away from me.
*edit* oops, I missed the update with the full article including the address, my apologies... silly me.
I guess I'll comment on this too: This sounds like a great way for me to rekindle my lost fondness for experiencing art in museums. Between my own frustrating struggle to learn the skills and techniques of creating visual art, and visits to art museums that left a bitter flavor in my mouth, I've essentially given up on the whole thing. That is unless this exhibit lives up to what I'm reading. My last visit to LACMA, the museum was mostly closed for renovation and the only art I was able to see was 1- the children's art (creative and fruitful, but understandably crude) 2- A gallery of the most moronic, self-important modern art I've ever seen and 3- a cold cement-walled basement gussied up with paint and cheap office carpet to house paintings in. My experience at the Getty was rewarding, but being given the bum-rush while attempting to experience it in it's entirety within a span of 3 hours (including lunch) just made me bitter.
I'm happy to see there's an exhibit of art that I can relate to and sincerely enjoy that is so bold and vivid, and is near my home.
Three cheers! I plan on visiting within the month.
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Edited by Konnrade (11/04/05 06:25 PM)
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Re: "Ecstasy"- Psychedelic exhibit, LA Museum of Contemporary Art [Re: Konnrade]
#4895000 - 11/04/05 06:20 PM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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Roxy Paine has nice cubensis, though that shot doesn't really show them off. I think his amanita look better.
But his somniferum can't be beat! Looks identical to the real deal.
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Re: "Ecstasy"- Psychedelic exhibit, LA Museum of Contemporary Art [Re: Konnrade]
#4895584 - 11/04/05 09:36 PM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
Konnrade said: May I ask where the LA Museum of Contemporary art is located?
At first I thought you meant LACMA, but I suppose that if it was LACMA then it would be stated as such.
I'd like to visit, it's only a half-hour away from me.
*edit* oops, I missed the update with the full article including the address, my apologies... silly me.
I guess I'll comment on this too: This sounds like a great way for me to rekindle my lost fondness for experiencing art in museums. Between my own frustrating struggle to learn the skills and techniques of creating visual art, and visits to art museums that left a bitter flavor in my mouth, I've essentially given up on the whole thing. That is unless this exhibit lives up to what I'm reading. My last visit to LACMA, the museum was mostly closed for renovation and the only art I was able to see was 1- the children's art (creative and fruitful, but understandably crude) 2- A gallery of the most moronic, self-important modern art I've ever seen and 3- a cold cement-walled basement gussied up with paint and cheap office carpet to house paintings in. My experience at the Getty was rewarding, but being given the bum-rush while attempting to experience it in it's entirety within a span of 3 hours (including lunch) just made me bitter.
I'm happy to see there's an exhibit of art that I can relate to and sincerely enjoy that is so bold and vivid, and is near my home.
Three cheers! I plan on visiting within the month.
Have fun!! Report back what your experience was like. i'd love to trip in a place like that. 2 problems: i can't find any shrooms/cid & i live 3 thousand miles away!!!
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Re: "Ecstasy"- Psychedelic exhibit, LA Museum of Contemporary Art [Re: ArcofaJourney]
#4895624 - 11/04/05 09:50 PM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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I wouldnt trip in a busy public place like that, to be honest. I dont like crowds of people and it'd really bug the hell out of me.
Not to mention there's authority figures everywhere in all major art museums, ESPECIALLY in exhibits like this where people are within touching, feeling, damaging proximity to the exhibits. At the getty for example, if you step too close to an artwork a large, generally musclebound docent will step up to you and tell you to back up, and you had better listen.
Too many bad vibes come off of those art museum guards.
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Re: "Ecstasy"- Psychedelic exhibit, LA Museum of Contemporary Art [Re: ArcofaJourney]
#4895659 - 11/04/05 10:01 PM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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we have some pretty cool stuff like that here in houston. its not direrctly drug relelated, but what kinda people do you think show up to see it?
we have a light tunnel thats pitch black then all of a sudden will start changing colors as you walk through it.
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Re: "Ecstasy"- Psychedelic exhibit, LA Museum of Contemporary Art [Re: A0999]
#4895700 - 11/04/05 10:15 PM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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yeah there's a place like that in Pittsburgh (where i'm moving soon) called The Mattress Factory. i've been there quite high, it was a thrill.
http://www.mattress.org/
Konnrade, i misread you, but i agree. i don't think i could trip in a place like that either now that i think about it.
Edited by ArcofaJourney (11/04/05 10:16 PM)
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Re: "Ecstasy"- Psychedelic exhibit, LA Museum of Contemporary Art [Re: ArcofaJourney]
#4897806 - 11/05/05 04:03 PM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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Yes! i'm so there.
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Re: "Ecstasy"- Psychedelic exhibit, LA Museum of Contemporary Art [Re: darkstar45]
#4897934 - 11/05/05 04:52 PM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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i'm going on a 'museum dose' 
really though, i live right next to moca
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Re: "Ecstasy"- Psychedelic exhibit, LA Museum of Contemporary Art [Re: Noviseer]
#4898631 - 11/05/05 09:44 PM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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that meuseum is sweet, id love to see it
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Re: "Ecstasy"- Psychedelic exhibit, LA Museum of Contemporary Art [Re: the_psychonaut]
#4902639 - 11/06/05 10:49 PM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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I went to this on Saturday. Let's just say that it was probably the best museum exhibit I've ever seen, in terms of eliciting pure sensory experience. Many of the exhibits are overwhelmingly impressive and interesting.
I am going to go back to this on E... it will be 10x better than going to a rave with all the crazy shit they have here.
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Re: "Ecstasy"- Psychedelic exhibit, LA Museum of Contemporary Art [Re: Plok]
#4902652 - 11/06/05 10:51 PM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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We should have a bunch of shroomerites just go there on a certain day. Make it some sort of occasion. I'll bring ramen
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Re: "Ecstasy"- Psychedelic exhibit, LA Museum of Contemporary Art [Re: Konnrade]
#4902673 - 11/06/05 10:55 PM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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Konnrade said: I wouldnt trip in a busy public place like that, to be honest. I dont like crowds of people and it'd really bug the hell out of me.
Not to mention there's authority figures everywhere in all major art museums, ESPECIALLY in exhibits like this where people are within touching, feeling, damaging proximity to the exhibits. At the getty for example, if you step too close to an artwork a large, generally musclebound docent will step up to you and tell you to back up, and you had better listen.
Too many bad vibes come off of those art museum guards.
Yeah man, for me... theres just some sort of clash between tripping and being *constantly* under high tech surveillance from all angles with guards watching your every movement. Just a little quirk of mine I suppose.
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