Friday January 17 * 7-10pm
Join us to celebrate the opening of Norberto Gomez’s solo show “BUT WE WERE MEANT TO BE GODS?”. With music for the opening provided by Chip Molter, who plays guzheng, gong, and other instruments of his own design.
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as the monarch flies past the mountain range, in the west you forgot I made anything, but we were meant to be godsin the south, in Teotihuacan I sought solace with the Moon, while you instead controlled a drone of doom, but we were meant to be gods it buzzed, disrupting an ancient om, so I wished you death by the serpent they all blessed, but we were meant to be godsin the east I race the seasons, while my heart fails a teenager's reason; I have treasoned, I have treasonedbut we were meant to be gods
Norberto Gomez, Jr. is a media archaeologist, digital daemonologist and artist based in Baltimore, Maryland whose work engages in the interstices and chasms of death and technology, as well as aesthetics and horror. Gomez attended the University of Houston where they received an MFA in painting and drawing. Following this, they attended Virginia Commonwealth University, completing a PhD in Media, Art, & Text, where they studied digital culture, the history of social spaces on the Internet and the Perl scripting language, ultimately recreating the chatroom of their teenage years, L.A. Live. Gomez is the co-founder and editor of Sybil Press, a small print press specializing in handmade artist books, works of theory, esotericism, cultural and heretical bricolage and critique, among other experiments, which published Gomez's The Book of Cannibals—a grimoire for the contemporary artist and consumer. Gomez has written for Blumhouse, Cvlt Nation, Digital America, and Fangoria Magazine. Recent exhibitions include Little Berlin (Philadelphia), (e)merge (D.C.), and C.I.C.A. Museum (South Korea).
http://www.norbertogomezjr.com
IG: @mailer.daemonik
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Chip Molter plays guzheng, gong, and other instruments of his own design. His music is atmospheric and introspective, gentle and unsettling, and encourages listeners to explore the bright and the shadowed paths they hold inside.
Chip performs with Baltimore based groups the dalai parton and James Bondage. He is also working with wellness providers(massage therapy, acupuncture) to develop new collaborative modalities and public workshops.
More of his work can be followed at:
https://www.facebook.com/chip.molter.sound/
https://soundcloud.com/thedalaiparton