Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe - THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH THE STENOGRAPHER

Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe - THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH THE STENOGRAPHER

Saturday, Aug 04, 2018 - Friday, Aug 17, 2018

Location:
Boo-Hooray Summer Rental
 649 Montauk Highway
Montauk, NY 11954

THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH THE STENOGRAPHER is a single wall-work assemblage that measures 176” x 100”. This is part of an ongoing series in which the Freeman/Lowe studio archive is presented in raw form rather than filtered into their signature fictional architectural scenarios. The contents include but are not limited to: The dust jacket For Guided By Invoices. Samples from of an occult-themed community board. A Bollywood sex romp. Water-stained real estate hand-outs. A Practical Guide to Successful Still Life Photography. Lesbian Separatist Funk. A sweating Shampoo Bottle.  The horror episode of Tea Time Talks Back. A concrete based wellness seminar. Eastern European Smuggling Unions. Light Wave Therapy. Narcotic Moisturizer. Heavy Metal EDM. Rastafarian Motorcycle Gangs. Techno Hippies. 19th Century urban sprawl. 17th Century palm tree hysteria. Methamphetamine Surf Culture. Arctic travel posters. Sex Jokes. The nautical fetish in Japanese menswear. Princess Diana Goths. Hindu Preppies. Disco Creeps. Fantasy Nails in the Mexican flower shop. Futons of The Rich and Famous. Grand Animal Flash. Cloud Trank. Meow-Meow Ocean Burst. Default Mode Network. Florida Snow. Canadian Tanya. Mirror Purp. Sixty Foot Sunlight. Souvenirs from the Dyslexic Puzzle Club. Flea market jeans. High Entropy Contact Lenses. Adrift in Egoless Banter. Dolphins.

BOO-HOORAY exhibits both at home in New York City as well as internationally. We also stage collaborative exhibitions with the Hayward Gallery and Rough Trade in London, Tsutaya Daikanyama, Hysteric Glamour, and United Arrows in Tokyo, Galleri Operatingplace in Stockholm, Colette in Paris, PopMontreal in Montreal, Mishka Los Angeles, Printed Matter at both MOCA/LA and PS1/NYC, and Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, the New York Public Library, the Grolier Club, and Milk Gallery in New York.

Boo-Hooray exhibitions have included shows featuring Larry Clark, The Velvet Underground, Ray Johnson, Afrika Bambaataa, Jonas Mekas, Ed Sanders, Linder Sterling and Jon Savage, Spencer Sweeney, Houston Rap, private press vinyl, Wallace Berman, anarcho-punk group Crass, Jason Polan, Jack Smith, cult-filmmaker Ed Wood, and Situationist Times editor Jacqueline de Jong.

The exhibitions are drawn from cultural archives that Boo-Hooray excavates, organizes, and places in institutions such as Columbia University’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Cornell University’s Division of Rare Manuscript Collections, Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Library.