CURATED BY STEPHANIE LANE GAGE
Ashley
Coffey
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Joshua Christensen — 3 Megan Cunningham — 4 Jasmine McMasters — 5 Ethan
Kastner
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Galia Basail-Mulcahy — 8 Brett
Suemnicht
Caitlin
Rooney
Saige
Rowe
Zach
Hill
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Kayle Karbowski — 15 Michelle
Sharp
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Grace
Mitchell
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Krister
Larson
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Maeve
Jackson
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Paul
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Kramer
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stills from excerpt  #2, 2014 video 2
Floating  Structure, 2014 plate lithograph
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untitled (feb. ‘14)
Wrap me in furs, as an animal again. Pick the soft buds from the leafless trees and know that I am a warring party. I have conceded any knowledge of who I am. I shave my hair and prepare for more winter.
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I’M SO SAD BUT SO ELECTRIC, 2014 photo series and craiglist ad
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closing shift (end me now), 2014 pen, highlighter
untitled (north carolina #2), 2014 iphone photo 7
Mi  Casa, 2014 digital 8
Fragmented Parking A, 2014 relief and digital print
Fragmented Parking B, 2014 relief and digital print 9
Sad  Urn
Satellite fuzz fell softer on my skin than the comforter ever did. A bug flattened like a peeping tom through a sealed window, Our crowded room pined for the street. It occurred to me then that while we were the only ones watching an Atomic bomb drop in Vegas, it didn’t matter anyways.
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stills from An  Important  Matter, 2014 video
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transcript and stills from My Airplane, 2014 performance
“I have gathered you all here today to tell you why I have built this airplane. I have crafted myself an escape. As winter closes in on me I dream of the desert, of cacti, and of horizon lines. I want to stay a kid forever. Bypass the street, the road, the highway, the people, the barriers, the hate, the bullshit. I am searching for space; I don’t mean outer space but space in a more metaphorical sense. Why do we have to grow up? Sometimes I think about joining the circus even though I already feel like I am in one. I want to join one that travels more. Not all human beings are meant to settle down. I know that I am not and I know that you know what I am talking about. My friends are scattered across the country Here there and everywhere. I find myself missing a lot of things and a lot of people. I want to be in a constant state of discovery Keep my mind preoccupied. I want to be able to go home whenever I feel like it I want to visit my best friend in Santa Fe and soar over the rolling plains of Kansas I want to fly away. I I I I I I I I I I I I I
have have have have have have have have have have have have have
built built built built built built built built built built built built built
this this this this this this this this this this this this this
airplane. airplane to see the world. airplane to experience something. airplane to run away and join the circus. airplane to get out. airplane to fly away. airplane to get back to the desert and make a pit stop in Vegas. airplane to travel through time. airplane to be a kid again. airplane to find my one true love. airplane because I miss you. airplane for me. airplane.
I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I fucking love you guys. So I bid you all a farewell But not forever. I’ll be back. If anything I will be up in the stars Just my airplane and I.”
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Prolonged, Unfulfilled Desire or Need, 2013 installation documentation
Only for one weekend out of the year could you get funnel cakes doused in powdered sugar. Then go to the petting zoo and watch the goats lick the white, sugary substance from your fingertips. Be thrown around, left, right, up, down, in huge metal boxes of all shapes and sizes, smiling and laughing the whole time. Until you can almost feel the deep fried batter being jumbled up with stomach acid begin rising from your stomach into your throat. But it’s just dandy, Because then you’ll be holding a corn on the cob dripping with butter in one hand and fluffy, pink and blue cotton candy in the other. You can’t resist the sensation of the candy melt from fluff to liquid in your mouth. Even throwing plastic darts at balloons attached to rubber ducks floating down a plastic canal is a thrill. Despit the fact that you will never win the huge teddy bear with the big, red bow tie.
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But this year, it rained all week.
Pineapple  #6, 2014 photograph 16
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stills from Where Ducks Go To Die, 2014 video
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Giant Squid
Dies of Old Age . . Dads talking about the Weather Channel
&& to
& sleeping Lightly a golf tournament. Tiger Woods has Still Got It.
& && sexual rehabilitation centers are making A Great comeback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I
stop there You Are-
it Seems We where it is
suddenly-
stopped too
have Both
forgotten
Exactly We Are (i
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imagine
)
you
transcribe
passion Accurately.
& Your _________voice: So many
like
Other a ghost
creating
Memories or a
talk show host
(
distance inter –
Voices.
)through connection
(“Do you think about me as much as I-
Yes Absolutely.
) The dog was hyper aware of the human hair in his water. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .......................................................... .................................................. Holocene Extinction brings us to the of the Anthropocene. & & & &&Sociopathic Tendencies of Persuasion. After Golf,
Dawn
lets drink diet coke
mixed
with Ron Diaz.
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Excerpt
I walked to where the canyon opened up to a space I would describe as a platform that looked down over a grassy valley with a small stream that divided me from a different mountain range across the way. I felt so alone after being with other humans constantly in the van. I stood there with a misunderstanding of my senses and then it happened again. The delay of feeling the wind on my skin was caused by the distance of miles.
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from the series Anyone but here, anywhere but me, 2014 ballpoint pen & prismacolor marker 22
Galia Basail-Mulcahy: galiabasailmulcahy.com Joshua Christensen: cargocollective.com/Joshchristensen Ashley Coffey: missspiritual.tumblr.com Megan Cunningham: trillustrator.tumblr.com Stephanie Lane Gage: stephanielanegage.com Zach Hill: zach-hill.com Maeve Jackson: maevejackson.com Kayle Karbowski: kaylekarbowski.com Ethan Kastner: cargocollective.com/ethankastner Paul Kramer: paulogram.tumblr.com Krister Larson: 1ack1uster.tumblr.com Jasmine McMasters: cargocollective.com/jasmcm Grace Mitchell: cargocollective.com/gracemitchell Caitlin Rooney: caitlin-rooney.tumblr.com Saige Rowe: saigerowe.com Michelle Sharp: michellesharp.net Brett Suemnicht: brettsuemnicht.com Published May 2, 2014 in conjunction with an exhibition at Jackpot Gallery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.