Join Altman Siegel and Minnesota Street Project Foundation on Tuesday, September 24 at 6pm for a special screening of Trevor Paglen's Doty (2023) followed by a conversation with the artist and author, teacher, and independent scholar Erik Davis. The event will take place at 1201 Minnesota Street and is free and open to the public.
Erik Davis (www.techgnosis.com) is an author, teacher, and independent scholar based in San Francisco. He is the author, most recently, of Blotter: The Untold Story of an Acid Medium, a study of LSD blotter art. He also wrote High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies (2019), Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica (2010), and the cult classic TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information (1998), which remains in print. Erik’s scholarly and popular essays on music, technology, drugs, and consciousness culture have appeared in scores of books, magazines, and journals, and his writing has been translated into a dozen languages. He also writes a Substack called Burning Shore, and co-runs Alembic, a center in Berkeley devoted to meditation, movement, and visionary arts and culture.
Trevor Paglen’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Altman Siegel, San Francisco, CA; Matadero Madrid, Madrid, Spain; Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), Berlin, Germany; Pace Gallery, Seoul, Korea and New York, NY; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy; Barbican Centre, London, UK; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; MCA San Diego, San Diego, CA; Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico; Tensta Konsthall, Spånga, Sweden; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany; Kunsthalle Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland; Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany; Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, MI; Secession, Vienna, Austria; Kunsthall Oslo, Oslo, Norway; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA. Group exhibitions include Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark; 14th Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China; 14th Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China; Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan; Mudam, Luxembourg; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA; Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany; Frac Normandie Rouen, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, France; The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX; GAMeC Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy; Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, Spain; Milwaulkee Art Museum, Milwaukee, MN; Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway; Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany; C/O, Berlin, Germany; Leopold Museum, Vienna, Austria; Cantor Arts Center, Stanford, CA; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany; Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland; Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO; MCA Denver, Denver, CO; de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA; Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia; MOCA Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Cleveland Art Museum, Cleveland, OH; MAXXI, Rome, Italy; the Gwangju Biennale, Korea; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX; Manifesta 12, Palermo, Italy; Smart Museum, Chicago, IL; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria; Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK; Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; and New Museum, New York, NY. Paglen received the Nam June Paik Art Center Prize in 2018 and was a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship in 2017.
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