K48 Kontinuum: EXPECT MORE. PAY LESS.

Below are pix of our K-48 pizza pie collages that we are selling this coming Saturday, May 1st at Youth Group Gallery - 19 Hope Street, Brooklyn - 8pm. They are $20 each. We have slices for $3 each. First-come, first-served. Expect more - pay less :)

Happy Earth Day

If it's already been done... undo it!

We are making our pizza pie collages for our benefit - May 1st! Whole Pies only $20 and by the slice: $3

AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME

The Last Slice

K48 Kontinuum, No Soul for Sale / Tate Modern, London

As an ubiquitous, and iconic symbol of New York City, pizza denotes the collaborative’s interests in cultural appropriation.

A slice of pizza is photographed from an aerial perspective to produce a black and white image that is expected to cover the entire floor space allotted to us in Turbine Hall. This image is then juxtaposed with a ‘real object’ by placing an empty pizza box with leftover crusts and greasy pizza box liner on top of the image. A black and white photograph of a slice of pizza bares references to forensic photography and mug shots, the Grotesque, and the Absurd. Between the empty pizza box and enormous size of the photograph of a slice of pizza, intriguing visual tension is anticipated at both ground level, and from the balconies of Turbine Hall.

The ancient Greeks and Romans invented pizza centuries ago. In the 20th Century pizza became an international food. In 1993, Pizza Hut, a popular American food franchise, introduced pizza to Pakistan and in 2009 sales generated over $2 billion annually, which is the second largest pizza sales revenue after the US. ‘The Last Slice’ is about current economics and trying to “make it” in New York and all corners of the globe.

In the 21st Century, reality is just another illusion. K48 Kontinuum’s project for No Soul For Sale, Tate Modern will appropriate this icon as a visual motif—recycling 20th Century ideas of Dada, Surrealism, Pop, and The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Delivering a subversive critique of Postmodern culture’s rampant consumption and depletion, dwindling natural resources, and over population. Sustenance, need, and convenience speaks loud from all corners of the globe as well as from our stomachs as we all fight for survival in the metropolises of our urban dystopias. The recognizable pop culture motif of a slice of pizza is a conceptual indicator for all these things and more.

One slice left of the whole. Our last slice will be a symbol of our concurrent economic global collapse—an illusion of our Post-modern dilemma. The empty pizza box is a signifier of depletion, and deflation, exhaustion, waste and void, but also, satisfaction, fullness, and wanting more. Metaphorically, it is about power struggles, choices and globalization. Rich people eat it, poor people eat it. It’s delicious and satisfying whether it’s a cheap dollar slice on St. Mark’s Place in NYC or from a chic gourmet restaurant. Pizza is an egalitarian cuisine. K48 is an egalitarian collaborative group.

NO SOUL FOR SALE

John Whitney's demo reel of work created with his analog computer/film camera magic machine he built from a WWII anti-aircraft gun sight. Also Whitney and the techniques he developed with this machine were what inspired Douglas Trumbull (special fx wizard) to use the slit scan technique on 2001: A Space Odyssey

Disposable Soldiers

K48 is going to the Tate!

NO SOUL FOR SALE

Kathe Burkhart

thx MM

Disposable Soldiers

Had a nice studio visit today with my friend, Erik Hanson...

thx Erik :)

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Tha Pumpsta from Scott Hug on Vimeo.

thxx for the home-made veggie burger and w33d :)

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I made this for GAG's 4 Year Anniversary...

GAG 4 Year Mug Shots from Scott Hug on Vimeo.

Daniel Joseph Martinez

Collage Party

getting ready for our Pizza Party benefit — K48 Kontinuum TATE Modern: The Last Slice...

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thx MM

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SOLD

THANK YOU :)