Inorganic Demons - Professional Presentation ft. Harris Rosenblum

[ Work In Progress ]

I was partnered with Jessie Ng-Chung West and chose the job of contacting the artists. I knew it would be a challenge for me as I'm not the most sociable, but networking and interacting with other artists is something I need to improve and get accustomed to.

Harris Rosenblum, a sculptor based in New York, was the only one to respond to me with haste out of the many artists I contacted. I knew of him as contributor and moderator of the digitally native art collective and publishing platform Do Not Research.

The founder of Do Not Research, Joshua Citarella, mentioned his work in a recent episode of Doomscroll podcast with musician and artist Grimes. Citarella spoke of his piece Infinite Pain with such passion I knew I had to take a deep dive into his projects, old and new, and reach out.

Citarella's journalism and art is one of the main inspirations for my Amplify project, he's what I call an Internet Anthropologist. I wanted to know how Rosenblum also became interested in this field of research.

The show of his I looked at was Inorganic Demons at Sara’s, 2 E Broadway, NYC, April 14th - May 20th, 2023, and the specific artwork I asked about was The Infinite Generative Potential of God (Version 3).

"This show is about oil and the mutant resilience of collective spirit. The fog of war blurs the line between petrochemicals and self. Crude oil forms the image of a deity as an apparition of the graphics card or through a torrent of shifting land. Eating heaven and vomiting it as a beautiful material world. When I lay down in its caustics I can't help but ascend."

The Infinite Generative Potential of God (Version 3) Harris Rosenblum

I made sure to do my research and watched an interview Harris had about the specific show I was looking into.