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JAMES KALM ON BLACK ACID CO-OP AT DEITCH, NEW YORK
James Kalm has been watching the progress of this extensive installation for weeks. Black Acid Co-Op is the collaboration of Justin Lowe and Jonah Freeman, and this piece explores the dark manic recesses of meth-lab culture and its analogues relationship to middle America and the glamorous New York art world. Entering the basement, visitors ascend through a labyrinth of burned out trailers meth-labs and art galleries in a journey through an hellatious environment of cultural debris.

 
 
USER COMMENTS
On one hand, i like the jarring effect of the transition between the instalation and the kitch gallery setting. Yet, on the other hand it feels very obvious illustration of the conflict of art in a formal setting compared to an immersive environment.
Pearl    12-07-2009
I love the Kalm productions, but I am not sure it is fair to be bugging the staff pre-exhibition, and I do not feel it adds to the work.
dan olken    12-07-2009
      By James Kalm
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