You Heard It Here First

Congrats to M&D Darkness contributors Anne Elizabeth Moore and Terence Hannum.

Moore has just recently been announced as one of this year’s recipients for the Fulbright Scholarship. Moore, leader of several zine- and bookmaking workshops for women in Cambodia, will be researching the effects of popular culture among young women in Southeast Asia. More of her work and writing can be seen on her blog and at WBEZ/Vocalo. 

Terence Hannum’s band Locrian just finished a new video filmed in a Polish cemetery, featured this week on Stereogum. It’s pretty sick - better break out the 3D glasses for this one. 

Terence Hannum at Peregrine Program

Please check M&D contributor Terence Hannum’s opening this Friday July 16th at Peregrine Program in Chicago. 

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Negative Altars / Terence Hannum  

PEREGRINE PROGRAM 500 W Cermak Rd #727 | Chicago, IL 60616

http://www.peregrineprogram.com/

OPENING: July 16th | 6-8pm July 16th - 31st 2010

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Our dark ages.  A spectral gathering of amplifiers.  The ghostly smear of hair in mid-headbang.  A charred chapel, blasted out windows, candles burn in some arcane rite and a bonfire menaces in the distance.  What are we in?  A concert gone wrong?  A cult ceremony, the apocalypse? 

For the past few years, Terence Hannum’s oneiric gouache drawings have culled the periphery of heavy metal subculture and amplifier worship to analyze the nexus of music, myth and ritual.  In ‘Negative Altars’ the drawings are combined in triptychs, arrangements that position them akin to medieval narrative devices.  In many of the pieces, the focus falls upon a shrine composed of (mostly) vintage amplifiers from an era where maximum volume was the aim, and that has only enhanced these monoliths’ collectibility and further fetishization.  Echoing the obsolescent amplifiers and speaker cabinets incorporated in the drawings, Hannum has made a wall and floor installation using analog magnetic tape and a reel-to-reel tape player.  Containing a loop of voices and acting as a functional frame for a drawing, this piece is the formal invocation of the unholy order the artist is conjuring with this show.   

Welcome to his blossoming cult.

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Terence Hannum is a Chicago based artist and musician performing solo and with the band Locrian.  He received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2004 and has had solo exhibitions at Light & Sie (Dallas, TX), The Museum of Contemporary Art, Vega Estates and Gallery 400 in Chicago, IL and he has an upcoming solo exhibition at the Peeler Gallery at DePauw University titled New Rites opening September 2010.  His art has also appeared in group exhibitions at The Photographer’s Gallery (London, UK), Marine (Santa Monica, CA), Thomas McCormick Gallery (Chicago, IL), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Torino, Italy), Schalter (Berlin, Germany), and 40000 (Chicago, IL).  His videos have been screened at Southern Exposure (San Francisco, CA) and the Borealis Festival in Bergen, Norway