The 5 Must-See Exhibitions in June 2022!

by Ingrid Luquet-Gad

Total Art Against Total Extinction

It’s a way of taking ecology and degrowth in a reverse direction and anchoring it in a provocation akin to avant-garde strategies: to save the planet and its inhabitants, as well as to spur the capacity for change numbed by catastrophic paralysis, the Church of Euthanasia has been advocating since 1992. Its commandment? “Thou shalt not procreate.” Its four pillars? Suicide, abortion, cannibalism, and sodomy.

In the United States, the success of infiltrating mass media—through talk shows or the streets, distributing stickers and T-shirts—has been so significant that people sometimes forget about its founder, Chris Korda, a deliberate erasure. Nevertheless, the environmental activist and transgender woman is also a multifaceted artist, a successful musician since the 1990s, with releases on labels like International Deejay Gigolo Records, and more recently, Perlon or Mental Groove Records.

Add to this her work as a coder advocating for a free web, and you have a body of work that not only explores but also infuses the history of counterculture of the century. At Confort Moderne in Poitiers, her retrospective is curated by the exhibition curators from the run-space Goswell Road in Paris, who were the first to present her work in Paris. The exhibition will also feature previously unseen paintings and kinetic sculptures, assembled into a total and augmented ode to creation—a different kind of energy, one that is inexhaustible and non-extractive, provided one is (re)awakened.

The (Wo)man of the Future. Chris Korda, a retrospective, from June 10 to August 28 at Confort Moderne in Paris.

The preceding is a translation. The original language is here.