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By: Isabel Dunstan
Date: 27th Feb 08
Medium: Mixed
Drink: Long neck in a paper bag
What:
Brothers and sisters of the pale forest
Where:
Utopian Slumps, 23 Easey St, Collingwood
When:
Launching Fri Feb 29, 6pm-9pm
Exhibition runs until March 22
How much:
Free
Image:
Detail 'Untitled' collage, Alasdair McLuckie, 2008
Jim Morrison's fantastical string of poems about rabid dogs, glazed snakes and Children of the Night were intended to be recorded on one full side of a vinyl record. But the recording of ‘The Celebration of the Lizard' was haulted when stick-in-the-mud band member Ray Manzarek contested that it was "too diffuse, too mangy". The Lizard King never came to be recorded in a studio - he does exist, however, in an epic live recording. The Lizard King lives in what Morrison described as "the secret aspect of reality... and in the corruptive space of between".
Utopian Slumps has brought rejected aspects of reality to the fore in their next exhibition, with the Lizard King-friendly title, Brothers and Sisters of the pale forest. VCA graduates Belle Bassin and Alasdair McLuckie collaborate to lend their art the spaces of between and themes etched in history in the form of drawings, paintings and structures.
To the land of the fair, and the strong, and the wise (that's Collingwood). Brothers and sisters of the pale forest (that's some damn smart Melbourne talent). Children of the Night (that's you!). Who among you will run with the hunt?