POST-AMERICA
Are you concerned that someone you know is becoming an extremist? Violent groups try to manipulate your anger and disappointment by encouraging you to perceive everyone they disagree with as a potential terrorist threat. We care about preventing extremism at Chinatown Soup. You can take action now to protect yourself and others by experiencing Post-America, an exhibition of art by Post-America and Birdie Hall that is on view from November 9 - 28, 2021.
This exhibition is an alternative take on current events by young women whose patience is wearing thin. They do not identify with the soft, victimizing, and pedantic sociopolitical messaging that dominates Woke attention. Rather, their practices insist that it is our Patriotic Duty to resist fear of the government and those who support control systems. Familiar places and worn out faces haunt monitors and canvases; between digital and traditional art we behold a spliced revelation of the American method.
Compilations of moving images by Post-America are in conversation with oil paintings by Birdie Hall. Together, their art is an expression of conspiracy narratives transcending party lines and corporate agendas to arrive at an ultimate, universal ethic that matters most: self-respect. Do you know what that feels like?
Post-America is a woman trapped inside a computer who creates original content to counterbalance misinformation.
Birdie Hall (b. 1994) is an artist based in Montana and New York. Her paintings, etchings, drawings, and soft sculpture reimagine familiar archetypes and landscapes with a sly sense of humor that evokes spirituality, psychedelics, nature, visionary poetry, modernist literature, epistemology of science, theories of the New Age, ethnobotany, reproductive history, and the afterlife. Often combining visual and textual elements, Birdie returns to bodily experience amid the alienation of modernity and technology with deep concern for the liberation of all sentient beings. She earned an undergraduate degree in Philosophy and an MFA in Printmaking from New York University.