For Postscrypt’s second online show, we are exhibiting submitted works related to the bedroom. We are interested in what a home or sense of place means to a person. This could materialize as artifacts lifted from one’s bedroom, photographs or videos of personal space, using media to re-think the boundaries between outside and inside, etc.
sleep, space, home, cage, privacy, a room of one’s own, dreams, dream journal, bedroom map, rest, refuge, sanctuary, sleep, imprisonment, intimate, confinement, inviting, locked, intimacy, incubation, cocoon, womb, dungeon, self reflection, self, identity, projected identify, creation, bedroom walls, walls.
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OUR UNITY LAUNCH AND ZOOM WAS ON FRIDAY 22ND @5PM
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POSTCRYPT OPENHAUS
NEXT OPENHAUS: TBA
Postcrypt OPENHAUS is a monthly occurance where members, artists, enthusiasts, and those who want to get involved intermingle (for now via Zoom). Get the scoop on our upcoming programming, chat about what’s new in the art scene, & discuss your ideas for Postcs future forms.
PREVIOUS OPENHAUS:
FRIDAY, JANUARY 29TH 5PM EST.
FRIDAY DECEMBER 4TH 5PM EST.
Click here to download the presentation from December 4th!
OCTOBER 2020 - JANUARY 2021
This grant is for any working artist based in New York who identifies as BIPOC. The grant will provide up to $300 to facilitate the execution of a project, culminating in a solo show with Postcrypt, along with an interview and featured artist page on the Postcrypt website and social media platforms.
This is not a show about the end of the world...
This is about coexistence in the Anthropocene.
“What is dark ecology? It is ecological awareness, dark- depressing. Yet ecological awareness is also dark-uncanny. And strangely it is dark-sweet.” -- TM
After all…
“It is far more affirming to wake up in the darkness of the ecological thought than to continue dreaming of life destroyed forever...” --TM
Inspired by the theories of Timothy Morton, a show on dark ecologies seeks to destabilize an idealized Nature, green consumerism, or any self-assured environmentalism.
How do we creatively move forward from the melancholy of a poisoned planet?
Why am I better than a mushroom? Might poisonous mushrooms save the planet faster than we ever could?
Is environmentalism the new Great Chain of Being?
We are not the authorities on what dark ecology is; in fact we are just as clueless as you. We welcome you to reimagine nature and the future in any medium, to imagine dark ecologies
The Dark Ecologies Show was held on February 14th 2020
Click here to find the Tim Morton readings that started it all
︎︎︎Home Page ︎
this is where we post and chat about the things we’re stimulated by these days ...and comment below!
(Oct 25, 2020)
The Public Domain Review’s article: The Art of Book Covers (1820-1914). Some of our favourite pieces:
(Oct 20, 2020)
Typography:
Created by Peter Biľak, Dancewriter collages videos of dancers that are assembled into words :https://www.typotheque.com/dancewriter
“Body Type goes a step further and turns human bodies into a functional type system. While there are plenty of precedents throughtout the history of art and typography from Peter Flötner’s Anthropomorphic alphabet (1540) to Anthon Beeke's Nude alphabet (1970), Body Type is unique in the way it uses typographical principles to create a type family with different styles.”
Down here is a video showing “Materials” in action!
(Feb 14, 2020)
Readings that inspired the Dark Ecology show.
For a better understanding of "Dark Ecology' - coined by Morton this article is recommended:
This is timothy's blog which is also just fun to look through and see some of the more recent work and thinking!
