How Would You Decorate Your Mansion?

How Would You Decorate Your Mansion?
Michael Welsh
May 2nd - May 14th, 2015

“How Would You Decorate Your Mansion?” focuses on Welsh’s interest in the congruences between psychedelia, the promises of VR technology, and techno-utopianism: all alternative sensory operating systems offering total control of one's personal environment. Contemporary technologization relegates much of the physical world to the edge, as techno-occultists aim for the total mechanization of mind. Welsh’s work, hand woven tapestries incorporating tie-dyed materials and anarcho-communal signaling strategies (such as printed patches) exist in a stickier conception of the future, where the mechanics of biology and drugs exist as equals to technology; parallel operating systems in a field of ubiquitous accessibility. “How Would You Decorate Your Mansion?” is not so concerned with the products of contemporary decorating hierarchies as with the decoration of the mindscapes of the future; when hierarchies between now and then, and this and that, are absorbed into the internet of things and thought.

Michael Welsh (b.1983) is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. He is a founding member of GWCInvestigators, a paranormal investigation group. Welsh's interdisciplinary works have been shown nationally at such venues as High Desert Test Sites; Printed Matter, Inc., New York, NY; Judson Church, New York, NY; Appendix Project Space, Portland, OR; Katherine E. Nash Gallery University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; Extra Extra, Philadelphia, PA; Helper Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; C.R.E.A.M. Projects, Brooklyn, NY; BRIC Arts, Brooklyn, NY; AdHoc Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; among others. Welsh's artist's books can be found on the Social Malpractice Publishing and Publication Studio labels.