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By: Penny Modra
Date: 4th Jun 08
Medium: Installation
Drink: Herbal tea
What:
Motivational Bunker, Dan Arps
Where:
Neon Parc, Lvl 1, 53 Bourke St, Melbourne
When:
Until July 12. Open Wed-Sat 12-6pm
How much:
Free
Dan Arps buys psychedelic fantasy pop art posters from a bong shop near his house in Auckland, known as 'Sharpies', and paints or sticks things on them, and exhibits them. He is a very well known New Zealand artist and a dude.
Alongside this exhibition, you can buy his monograph, Gestapo Pussy Ranch. It's a nudist magazine altered to document his recent show at The Physics Room in NZ. It will tell you about somebody's dog getting jizzed on, the history of the swastika, and a scheme to collect facts proving that the end of the world is currently taking place (if you have one, you'll be paid $5).
He also co-founded Natural Selection Magazine. Issue 6b is worth checking out - it's the 'Overcoming Loathing: Pamphlet Series' and it will assist you in all areas of life through short instructional texts such as 'A Beginner's Guide to Empathy: Understanding Through Song', '16 Notes on Overcoming Gravity' and ‘Tips for petty crime'. As we said - dude.