NEGATIVE LITANIES closing reception at Western Exhibitions 2/19

NEGATIVE LITANIES:
Closing Benediction

THIS SATURDAY, 2/19, from 3 to 6pm, LOCRIAN member Terence Hannum will be spinning the metal music that inspired the work in his current show AND giving intimate tours of said to one and all, a kind of closing reception. Please stop by!



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WESTERN EXHIBITIONS
119 N Peoria St, 2A | Chicago IL 60607
312.480.8390

LOCRIAN member Terence Hannum's exhibition NEGATIVE LITANIES opens

Terence Hannum:NEGATIVE LITANIES
January 14 to February 19, 2011
Opening reception, Friday, January 14, 5 to 8pm

WESTERN EXHIBITIONS
119 N Peoria St, Suite 2A
Chicago, IL 60607



Terence Hannum's drawings, paintings and video installations cull the periphery of heavy metal and hardcore music subcultures to analyze the nexus of music, myth, audience and ritual. In addition to the above work, Hannum is a prolific zine maker and for his show in Western Exhibitions’ Gallery 2, Hannum will present a box set of 12 zines, all made in 2010, as well as drawings, paintings and other work that inspired the publications.

Exemplifying the DIY spirit inherent in the scenes he’s documenting, his use of the zine relates to the format’s origin, that of the self-produced fanzine. Hannum recontextualizes elements of his drawings, paintings, installations and even sound work in his zines, at times documenting the above works, but also casting new narratives intrinsic to the multi-page format.

Every month in 2010 Hannum produced a new zine, each one taking a different format, maximizing the possibilities of the cheaply printed page. He achieves remarkable textures, surfaces and images through seemingly simple combinations of toner on white, black and gray papers. Every subsequent zine ups the ambition from the prior one, as Hannum experiments with color xeroxes, collaborations (with New York artist Scott Treleaven, Chicagoan Elijah Burgher and Swedish musician/designer Thomas Martin Ekelund), vellum, sealed wax covers, obi bands and mini-CDs. Hannum pushes the zine to its extremes, much like the extreme sonic scenes he’s documenting and influenced by.

LOD 011: Terence Hannum "Summoning" / Zine + 3"CDR

For those in this congregation interested in printed matter, and this time some audio material, Locrian's Terence Hannum has issued his eigth zine in his monthly series for 2010, Summoning, for the month of August. If you've been keeping score with the past seven; Call & Response (w/ Scott Treleaven), False Bloods, Temple of the Immortals, Cataract of Fire and Blood (w/ Elijah Burgher), Profaned Missive (for Fan Death), Black Arts and our own New Rites (LOD 007) - again you will not be dissapointed.
















A continuation of Locrian member Terence Hannum's monthly series of publications for 2010, "Summoning" combines drawings of candelabras, bonfires and stage lights copied on black paper with textural studies of analog tape, surrounding a core of pages documenting an analog tape sculpture installed at Peregrine Program in July 2010.














This monthly project sees each zine change in format, here "Summoning" introduces a deluxe package of a jewelry box adorned with drawings and sealed by a black obi band to house both the zine AND the addition of a 3" audio CD. The CD contains a the tape loop from the original installation with its brief vocal composition looping for over 20 minutes in a single track also titled "Summoning". Part document and part art object "Summoning" attempts a meditative position while examining the role of the rite and music.



Edition of 45

- 3" CDR (22min. piece)
- 3.5" × 4.5" zine / Black & Black / Black & Gray / Black & White xeroxes | 24 pages
In White Jewelry Box, sealed with a black printed obi band.

Cost: $10ppd (US) / $15ppd (World)
PayPal: landofdecay (at) gmail (dot) com
SPECIAL: Get Summoning and the past issue Call & Response with Scott Treleaven for $22ppd (US) or $25ppd (World) - while supplies last.

(Terence's work will be in an exhibition titled Who's Yr Shaman in Chicago that runs Agust 13th - September 3rd at Johalla Projects - Opening Fri. Aug. 13th 7-11pm.)

Land of Decay Related: CATARACT OF FIRE & BLOOD / Zine

For those of you who so graciously supported our first printing endeavor New Rites a few months ago and maybe even followed up with a purchase of Black Arts or even Profaned Missive for Fan Death Record's DNA TEST FEST III, Locrian member Terence Hannum has not stopped, and in fact brought in a cohort in this new publication. We have a limited quantity of their new zine Cataract of Fire & Blood, more info below:

Firelight in a pitch-black space. Sigils carved into ready flesh. Cataract of Fire & Blood is a collaborative effort by Terence Hannum and Elijah Burgher, pairing images by the artists that explore subculture and ritual.



The title of the zine is lifted from a passage in William Blake's "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell":

"beneath us was nothing now to be seen but a black tempest, till looking east between the clouds & the waves, we saw a cataract of blood mixed with fire, and not many stones' throw from us appear'd and sunk again the scaly fold of a monstrous serpent."



7" × 8.5" / 20 pages. Full color zine in black envelope, stamped with wax. Edition of 100.

$10ppd (US) / $15ppd (world)
Please send payment to: landofdecay@gmail.com