Kult 48 2003

Find strength and encouragement in your walk with K48...



Genesis Breyer P-Orridge


Keegan McHarge


Rusty Santos


Shoplifter












DO NOT PROVOKE US: Marres Gallery, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Teenage Rebel 2002

Dude! I can't believe how punk rock this issue is! I saved up all my money (again), then quit my sucky day job to pursue something I really believe in — creative self-expression.

Thanks to all my RAD friends who contributed and helped out! You rock!!!

p.s. Thanks Dad for NOT sending me to a military academy.

Forever young,
Scott Hug



Contents/School of Teenage Rebellion


Dearraindrop


Aïda Ruilova with Jean Rollin


DO NOT PROVOKE US featuring Phiiliip

GUTS CUTS AND SORE BUTTS 2001

Issue No. 2 was launched in 2001 at Luxx in Williamsburg. Right before all the shit (World Trade Center) went down..

Ivy Nicholson


A.R.E. Weapons


Lily van der Stokker


Slava Mogutin


V.I.P. Hugs

STOP! 2000

The first issue of K48 was launched in 2000. We all thought that Y2K would shut down the system.. Enter/K48:

Regular or Goofy?
grid-lock
irrational order
linear passivism - information I.V.
"I want my MTV."
fractals, form, chance, and dimension
warp drive - out of mind, out of body
infinity imagined
irrational numbers
random links
speed freaks
disoriented adults
extreme kids
WIPE OUT!
receiver/transmitter confusion
the disassembled mediascape
the monkey is the massaged
Apocalypse Now
"May the force be with you."
New Babylon
Space Invaders
"Where do you want to go today?"
transient users
spiritual grooves...
relaxing into chaos

K48 is your pocket companion/time capsule..


Ricci Albenda


Bruce Goff


Cheapcream on Technology: Julia Scher


David Shaw & Ryan McGinley

What's wrong?

I need something stronger.


Take four red capsules.
In 10 minutes, take two more.
Help is on the way.

K48 was inspired by one of my favorite films, THX 1138

Celebrating a decade of K48!!!

Bob Mizer's Larry Lamb (circa 1960)

a 5 x 4 original Xmas present to self

upcoming: EXILE

via Erik Hanson

via John Monteith's Lost Highway installation at o'born contemporary, Toronto

via Steven Miglio

'I have days when I'm like, My God what did I do?'

Add some magic to your desktop, bookshelf or even your mantel with one of these:

My Simpsons Avatar (desktop version 12" tall boy)

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"SECRETED OTHERNESS: THE RETURN OF THE REPRESSED"

Don't miss this EXHIBITION curated by Rupert Goldsworthy OPENING this Thursday Dec 9th, 2010, 5-9pm:

NED AMBLER
CHRIS BOGIA
RUPERT GOLDSWORTHY
SCOTT HUG
JUDY NYLON
WALTER ROBINSON
MARK STEWART

— with a special screening of Brian de Palma's underground cult classic, “PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE”

Rupert Goldsworthy Gallery is pleased to present "SECRETED OTHERNESS: THE RETURN OF THE REPRESSED" a temporary group exhibition/salon in a pop-up space on New York's Lower East Side, located on the third floor of 191 Chrystie St. The exhibition is a three-day event, opening Thursday, December 9th from 5-9pm and running through Saturday November 6th. The exhibition will be open Fri-Sat from 12-6pm, and by appointment.

The show features seven artists, five of whom have a long connection with the gallery over its fifteen year on-off existence as an artist-run project between New York and Berlin. "SECRETED OTHERNESS: THE RETURN OF THE REPRESSED" includes installation, film, performance, drawing, painting, printmaking, posters, and photography.

NY-based filmmaker and artist Ned Ambler shows two new drawings and an artist's book, NY-based sculptor Chris Bogia shows a photo-installation, NY-based British painter Rupert Goldsworthy shows a hand-painted wall-size poster and a new artist's book, NY-based Scott Hug will show a print on fabric. Legendary NY performance artist Judy Nylon will make a photo installation. East Village legend Walter Robinson shows a new painting on canvas, and the historic Bristol musician/theorist Mark Stewart will show a poster.

There will also be a screening of Brian de Palma's 1974 rarely-seen cult classic “PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE” starring Paul Williams, on Thursday December 9th at 8pm, during the opening.

For further information about this exhibition, please contact the gallery by telephone at 347 583 756, or via email at info@rupertgoldsworthy.com or check the gallery's website www.rupertgoldsworthy.com. After the opening, the exhibition will be open December 10th-11th, Fri-Sat from 12-6pm, and thereafter by appointment.See More

from Jenn Sichel – Speak OUT: Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture

Dear friends,

As many of you know, I [Jenn Sichel] spent several years in DC putting together a show at the National Portrait Gallery called Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture. The show casts the history of American art through a queer lens, challenging our assumptions about what/how art means. The show is not a reductive look at "gay" art but rather a look at how artists navigate around a complex set of codes that govern sexual expression, how they circumvent and/or use these codes to express their own silenced desires, how they've dealt with love and loss when AIDS ravaged the community, and how (more recently) artists complicate society's imperative to identify as "gay/lesbian." The show is under serious attack from the right. They demanded that a video by David Wojnarowicz be removed, and the museum caved with an hour. I am outraged — almost 20 years after his death, Wojnarowicz is still being silenced! And now there is a good chance the entire show will be pulled. Please help me in rallying behind the show. We need an army of support.

What can you do?

Email NPG's director, Martin E. Sullivan expressing your support for the show. His email address is SullivanM@si.edu Forward this email to everyone and anyone who might care. Write your congressmen/women. Spread the word on facebook, twitter, etc.
WE WON'T GO DOWN SILENTLY.

In solidarity,
Jenn Sichel

SullivanM@si.edu
this is the guy to send an email to a.s.a.p



(my letter)

To Martin E. Sullivan,

As a gay artist living in NYC and in the 21st Century, having grown up in a repressed right wing Midwestern society - as an outcast - I moved to NYC to escape the hatred that exists in small-town America that has been fostered for decades by the God fearing right. I have been greatly moved and influenced by artists such as David Wojnarowicz, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Martin Wong - only to name a few - I feel that it's important to let this show go on uncensored.. for a number of reasons especially now as the right is rallying to once again take over government, create new wars, silence creativity and to repress sexual desire...

It would be a shame if you canceled this show. After years of the progress that has been made from Stonewall to Act UP .. I stand firm that this show MUST GO ON!! ..

.. To help educate the next generation so that they can live in a world of compassion and love - not one of hate.

Being gay in not only O.K. it's a BIG part of nature - we are not only eco-friendly by not increasing population growth, but we have for centuries donated our time as cultural innovators from Michelangelo to Andy Warhol.. and have contributed immensely to the beauty and understanding of mankind.

Get over it and get on with the show!

Sincerely,
Scott Hug

NASA find: Rimless Martian Pit (Stretched)

This enhanced image shows the inside of a rimless pit about 180 meters (591 feet) in diameter, northwest of the mountain Ascraeus Mons in the northern hemisphere of Mars. The pit has a very steep eastern wall (on the right) and a more gently sloped western wall. Shadows and overhangs obscure some of the interior, but this stretched-brightness image shows boulders and sand ripples on the floor...

MODERN WITCH "LIGHT SPEED" from ∆ ∆ ∆ on Vimeo.

via T.M. Davy

R.I.P. Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson

Eliphas Batty Levi Hugs

"Succeed in not fearing the lion, and the lion will fear YOU. Say to suffering, 'I will that you shall become a pleasure,' and it will prove to be such — and even more than a pleasure, it will be a blessing."

AMAZING

REMEMBER THE OLD JANE HOTEL!!? AND THE MEAT-PACKING!!

The provisional IRA in Belfast via Tim Hull

I saw this film tonight at MoMA..

it was awesome.

NY ART BOOK FAIR

This weekend at PS1 MoMA