Caroline Bick - “Hallo 94”
Void Oblation: Fashion Show
Redefining Psychedelic Arts & Culture
EXHIBITION :: Nov 23 through Dec 6, 2024
Pop-Up Fashion Show :: Sat, Nov 30 / 7:00 – 10:00 pm
Agitator Gallery hosts “BLNDGVSLS” a pop-up fashion show with live audio and visuals by the Chicago Noise & Free Jazz Orchestra / Video Waste / Hydrosonic Light Show / & Mystic Lightworks. Join us in featuring the creative efforts of artists and musicians to celebrate the LOOKS & SOUND of the Psychedelic Arts Community.
Void Oblation invites us to gaze inward into the confusion, ambivalence, and discord we hide and reveal in the shadow parts of ourselves through the lens of the psychedelic experience.
We challenge preconceptions of how we define “psychedelic” and the role such experiences can have in our journeys of self-discovery.
Sam Dickey - “Untitled 2024”
EXHIBITING ARTISTS:
Caroline Bick / Matthew Cobaugh / Sam Dickey / Carina Evins / Michael George Hansen / Nathaniel Kelley / Barbara Little / Jamie McGinty / Tim Ramirez / SAD GIRL / Erik Smith / Doc Womp
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The psychedelic experience is at once visionary, transformative, challenging, revolutionary, terrifying, blissful, disorganized, saturated, poetic, frenetic, and endlessly mutating. “Psychedelic” experiences are not limited to chemically induced phenomena - a huge range of human experiences and emotions can induce perceptual shifts, radical introspection, shadow work, self-confrontation, and ultimately the opportunity for transmutation.
If we are to shift cultural perceptions surrounding the role of psychedelics in personal growth and healing, we must sit with what the psychedelic experience actually means, feels, and looks like. To fully integrate these experiences we must sit with the challenging aspects as well as the ecstatic ones. The pieces selected for this show confront this dissonance and celebrate the nuance and confusion this experience can bring.
Void Oblation - an offering of oneself, in veneration and gratitude, into the chaos of the unknown.
SAD GIRL
ADDITIONAL EXHIBITION EVENTS:
Artistic Alchemy :: Sat, Dec 1 / 1:00 – 3:00 pm
Transforming Psychedelic Insights Into Creative Expression, presented by Valery Shuman LCPC, ATR-BC & Lauren Parente LCSW, CADC
CLOSING RECEPTION :: Fri, Dec 6 / 6:30 – 9:30 pm
with/ Psychedelic Stories Open Mic / Community Harm Reduction Panel Discussion / Policy Workshop
All work is for sale. CONTACT: agitatorgallery@gmail.com
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Tim Ramirez - “1000”
