Performance June 15th - 4PM at Allegra LaViola Gallery

June 5th Performance at Allegra LaViola Gallery "Catalytic Confessional Noise Ceremony"

Madame Lamort (Elektra KB+Nicolas Ulloa) Duo Pontificalis  of the Theocratic Republic of Gaia Noise performance. (A second performance will take place at the gallery on Saturday June 15th.)

Camera phone shots of Installations at Allegra LaViola Gallery's opening

Site specific installation "Confessional Catalytic Noise Machine" at the opening of the current show at Allegra LaViola gallery.

 

The White Papess heard many spontaneous confessions and also received this "fan mail" letter in her bed.

Stairs to the Project Room

 

Untitled Interactive Installation

June 5th, 2013 - 7PM / CATALYTIC CONFESSIONAL NOISE CEREMONY

Elektra KB's: The Cathara Insurgent Women Vs The Theocratic Republic of Gaia Beings 
Exhibition in Project Space: May 29 - June 22, 2013 

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Elektra KB and her partner Nicolas Ulloa will be performing:
"CATALYTIC CONFESSIONAL NOISE CEREMONY" as the duo MADAME LAMORT.

This will be an interactive noise performance in which the congregation (audience) that enter the Theocratic Republic of Gaia's Catalytic Confessional Noise Ceremony will confess anything they wish to the White Papess. Her holy mother, will use sound as a catalyst to erase all guilt and sins, thus liberating the Trogian congregation. With the audience's participation a live sound piece will be created together with the artist.

Note: Additional performance on Saturday, June 16th.


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Event Page: facebook.com/events/147870435398402
More information at: allegralaviola.com

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Confessional Catalytic Noise Machine performance

Site Specific InstallationThe Theocratic Republic of Gaia Presents: Confessional Catalytic Noise Machineby Elektra KB

Short video loop made by #YoPablo of the performance at the opening last night in Allegra LaViola Gallery.


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"The Cathara Insurgent Women Vs The Theocratic Republic of Gaia Beings" at Allegra LaViola Gallery

Elektra KB The Cathara Insurgent Women Vs The Theocratic Republic of Gaia Beings May 29 - June 22, 2013 Opening Reception Wednesday, May 29, 6-8 pm Allegra LaViola Gallery is pleased to present The Cathara Insurgent Women vs The Theocratic Republic Gaia Beings, a multi-media exhibition by Elektra KB. The show will open on Wednesday, May 29th and continue through June 22, 2013. There will be performances by Elektra KB + Nicolas Ulloa on Wednesday, June 5th and Saturday, June 15th, with exact times to be announced.Elektra KB’s work is set entirely in the realm of her mythological world: The Theocratic Republic of Gaia (T.R.O.G). This world is undergoing a period of imminent intense geological and social upheaval, during which tensions that have built up over centuries will be discharged. It is populated by colonized Trogians living under the supreme ruler: the White Papess II, her army: The Beings and the heretic Cathara Insurgent Women who lead the resistance and uprising of T.R.O.G. Trogians live as machines in a massive staged fantasy. They are in search of Tetrapharmakos (the essence of pleasure and happiness) and at the mercy of a world fascist empire lead by the White Papess II and the T.R.O.G.’s army, the Beings. Trogians, who live in a hypnotized state, have forgotten what reality is and are at the mercy of unintelligible dogmas and a cult of abstract humanoids and objects. The Catharas are dancing warriors, who lead the uprising of the Magical –Insurgent-Spirits that populate the Aztec territory of T.R.O.G and lead a mystical battle of resistance to the light ray weapons of the beings. The Theocratic Republic Of Gaia is Elektra KB’s critique against the contemporary status quo, and a call to break from it, encompassing elements of anti-patriarchal struggle and issues of Neo-Colonialism. The entities that populate her work are often purging threads out of their mouths, which allude to a physical and emotional catharsis that expresses what is ignored and repressed-- what we are forced to hide: a mute scream. In the photographs, which are printed on canvas and stitched to fabrics, she constructs alternative realms of resistance, where utopia has not quite been reached. Elektra KB’s interest in female identity and the historical silencing and shaming of women is apparent from the first view of her work. The women in her world are alien beings, yet very familiar. Legendary fighters- Joan of Arc, the Amazon warrior women, the supposed female Pope Joan/Agnes- seep through into the depictions of these otherworldly beings. The symbols associated with them are recognizably altered, yet they still harbor powerful associations. Despite addressing the persistent historical demonization of women, all of the characters in T.R.O.G are female. There are no men to perpetuate violence- the women are the sole inhabitants of this realm. Through the varying media of installation, performance, video, photography and works on fabric, Elektra KB immerses us in her personal mythology. Elektra KB is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts (2012). In 2013, her work has been exhibited in the group exhibitions “All The Best People” at 1 to 1 Gallery, New York, reviewed in Artforum (March 2013) by Carolyn Busta, and “Changing the World Through Art” at Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York. She also has a solo exhibition in New York at BravinLee Programs: There are Women at the Gates Seeking a New World, and a monograph of her work published by Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness due later this summer.

Artist's Book of The Cathara Insurgent Women

Currently on view at BravinLee Programs
There are Women at the Gates Seeking a New World...
May 22 - June 28, 2013
526 W 26th St #211 New York, NY 10001

Thanks to Derek Kalisher for the photos.

"No One Can Explain This Pain, I Just Want To Disintegrate"

Currently on view at BravinLee Programs
There are Women at the Gates Seeking a New World...
May 22 - June 28, 2013
526 W 26th St #211 New York, NY 10001
(212) 462-4404

The Journey

Currently on view at BravinLee Programs
There are Women at the Gates Seeking a New World...
May 22 - June 28, 2013
526 W 26th St #211 New York, NY 10001
(212) 462-4404

Procession in Colonized Territory

Currently on view at BravinLee Programs
There are Women at the Gates Seeking a New World...
May 22 - June 28, 2013
526 W 26th St #211 New York, NY 10001
(212) 462-4404

Elektra KB - BRAVIN LEE GALLERY - Opening Next Wednesday, May 22, 6-8pm

	Elektra KB
	There Are Women at the Gates Seeking a New World...
	May 22 – June 28, 2013
	Opening: Wednesday, May 22nd, 6-8pm
	Procession in Colonized Territory, 2013, Archival pigment prints, fabric, felt, thread, 36 x 54 inches
	BravinLee programs is pleased to present an exhibition in the gallery's project room by Elektra KB of new works on paper, photography, and a selection of cloth pages of her 20 page, hand-sewn artist’s book. The pages of the book, each a sewn and embroidered felt collage, depict guerilla warfare in a mythological, semi-autobiographical world parallel to ours: a female rebel army revolting against the forces of a tyrannical police state. The women are primitivist and often uniformed and weaponized--most wear only short petticoats and veils or ominous balaklava. They pose brazenly with machine guns and chainsaws in photo ops, but Elektra KB has rendered these weapons more like toys, and according to her rule-set for this alternative world, they shoot rays of light not ammo. As in Anthony Burgess’ “A Clockwork Orange,” Elektra KB’s world subsists on a complex play of invented language and iconography; however, her protagonists are righteous. “The Cathara Insurgent Women”—dancing warriors, rebels, heretics—fight against the shadowy forces of “The Theocratic Republic of Gaia”. The Insurgents call to mind simultaneously today’s feminists and activists like Susana Chavez, Medieval heretics, and the Aztecs in the era of Spanish conquest. Throughout the pages of the book, shadows leak and flow together representing the forces of Neo-colonization: mass scale and conspiratorial violence and murder, repression of free speech, and the oppression and alienation of women. Threads hang loosely from these shadows and war iconography, representing catharsis, repression, Barbarism, and physical emancipation à la Freud’s Death Drive. The title of the show is a modification of text, “There are men at the gates seeking a new world,” extracted from an essay in the first issue of a magazine produced by the late 1960s art group Black Mask (later Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers). The group, formed by painter Ben Morea and poet Dan Georgakas, declared that revolutionary art should be an integral part of life, as in primitive society, and not an appendage to wealth. Elektra KB is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts (2012). In 2013, her work has been exhibited in the group exhibitions “All The Best People” at 1 to 1 Gallery, New York, reviewed in Artforum (March 2013) by Carolyn Busta, and “Changing the World Through Art” at Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York. She will also have a solo exhibition in New York at Allegra LaViola Gallery, “The Cathara Insurgent Women vs. The Theocratic Republic of Gaia Beings,” opening May 29th, 2013, and a monograph of her work published by Tangled Wilderness/Combustion Books is due later this spring. For more information, please contact BravinLee programs at 212.462.4404 or info@bravinlee.com.
	526 West 26th Street #211 New York, NY 10001 p 212 462 4404 f 212 462 4406 www.bravinlee.com

The Theocratic Republic of Gaia (text for Artist's Book)

Work in Progress-Wood Carving

Staining a wood carved Cathara Insurgent woman sculpture
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Rosa Apátrida in MRR

This month's Maximum Rocknroll with cover art by radical Spanish illustrator DOC came with a review of Rosa Apatrida's demo and the zine by Elektra KB. (Shown at artist run space 1 to 1 for the All the Best People exhibition.)

Cutlog Art Fair May 8th-13th

http://www.cutlogny.org/en/
http://timeinkids.org/event-registration/

CUTLOG NY A VIP PREVIEW & BENEFIT COCKTAIL for TIME IN            Please Join Time In to celebrate the work of   Brian Alfred, Richard Cutrona, Elektra KB +Martin Roth              Wednesday, May 8th 5:00-10:00 PM Private VIP Preview & Party to Benefit Time In Tickets Available for Purchase Here Only   May 8th-13th  VISIT TIME IN AT CUTLOG Richard Cutrona                         Elektra KB                    Brian Alfred                       Martin Roth      All proceeds from art and ticket sales go directly to supporting   TIME IN's   groundbreaking programming  for some of the youngest, most at-risk public elementary school children in New York City    www.timeinkids.org Watch us on MSNBC's Melissa Harris Perry:  The Power of Art to Empower Kids! The Board, Staff and Children of Time In express their sincerest thanks to the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts , Catalog for Giving, The Lincoln Fund, The E.H.A. Foundation and all of the generous foundations and donors who make this incredible program available to children who would otherwise have no meaningful access to the arts

Cutlog Access info Subway: F, J, M, Z trains to Delancey Street / Essex Street Bus: lines 14A & 9 A shuttle bus will run between cutlog and the Frieze ferry stop from Thursday, May 9 through Saturday, May 11 at 11 am – 8 pm daily. (Sunday, May 12 until 7pm) Open to the Public Admission tickets are priced as follows: adults $15    |    students & seniors $10 | Multipass (5-day entry) $25 / $20

Rosa Apatrida Show

by: Phil Maier/Rituals

Soviet-Latino Family

Mother, Grand-Mother, Daughter and Father.

Work in Progress

All The Best People Reviewed in ARTFORUM

I participated in a group show titled "All The Best People" this past month at 1:1 with a photography piece and a Zine (the latest which I am told the reviewer acquired.) Caroline Busta wrote a review in this month's ArtForum pages 278 & 279. The article is focused on the last show in the space, and mostly in 1:1 as an entity and the great people running it: Leigha Mason, Jarret Earnest, and Whitney Vangrin.

Elektra KB for Rosa Apatrida zine (updated version)

Shown at 1:1 "All the Best People"

Working