Exhibitions

SKYLER BRICKLEY + LUKE STETTNER: FILLING AIRWAYS PATRIOT MACHINE

Neue Welt / 507 Hagan St., Studio C November 2 - December 15th

Skyler Brickley, Luke Stettner

When Smartmatics, a multinational company that makes electronic voting systems, filed its monumental complaint against Fox Corporation/Fox News Network in December 2020, it laid bare one of the disinformation mechanisms by which facts can become unfixed, one tweet at a time.

Filling Airways Patriot Machine is the result of a years-long project involving artist-collaborators Luke Stettner and Skyler Brickley. Drawing from the 285-page court document, the artists convert the dizzying, relentless legalese into long-form poetry, pulling excerpts from the complaint that valorize, mock, condemn, and justify faceless villains and foreign collaborators. Each mini-poem is then converted to a poster-sized painting and hung on the cinderblock walls of the gallery.

A subset of twelve poem-drawings will be on display accompanied by a selection of several digital, screen printed, and hand-drawn works on paper, all inspired and terrified by the events of January 6th.