Mercy-Eyed Down the Triple Highway:
Join Anne Waldman & No Land for a guided tour
of their collaborative exhibition Mercy-Eyed Down the Triple Highway.
About the Exhibition:
No Land’s delicate visual and written worlds evoke a transcendent immateriality, while Waldman’s spells, incantations, and archival traces elicit an awakening for our time. In their wanderings from New York, through the American West, to Mexico and back since 2013, the two evoke histories of bygone poets—Shelley, Rimbaud, Corso, di Prima, Hafiz and beyond. Via devotional poem-texts, travel notes, scroll-paintings, meditations in ink, emulsion, and typewriter rhythms, No Land and Waldman dream into an inner state of seeking and active compassion, bringing into being another kind of world.
Tour from 5-6pm
The artist known as No Land is aptly named. Their work exists in an upper atmosphere, an etheric realm, invisible and moving. Prana, Qi, Life Body or Ether body, are different names for the mysterious life force which animates all that exists over and above the mineral realm. Where this force comes from has been speculated upon since humans were making ochre handprints on cave walls by the light of a torch. Unseen currents make the flame dance, move the mutable clouds through the sky; they quicken and grow dark; they whisper in the blue. In the realms of art, we are presented with husks, exoskeletons of visions, records of a process whereby the artist attempts to transmute and materialize what is immaterial.
No Land Presents Double Twilight, at Roulette Intermedium
Link to View Full Performance Here.
Photos by Filippo Di Franco
Film Stills by No Land & Laura Sophia Perez & Roulette Archive
No Land performance with Bentley Anderson on guitar
with analog photographs by No Land (on screen)
March 2022, NYC. Fotografiska Museum.
stills taken from film by Diane Alford.
Cremation Piece (on Neal’s Ashes) by
Oliver Ray & No Land, featuring Allen Ginsberg
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| Left to Right: No Land, Jesse Goodman, poet Anne Waldman, Peter Hale, Filmmaker Ed Bowes |
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