{"id":16386,"date":"2009-03-01T21:28:35","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T02:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=16386"},"modified":"2011-11-30T21:32:31","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T02:32:31","slug":"dash-snow-movie-list-exhibition-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=16386","title":{"rendered":"Dash Snow &#8220;Movie List&#8221; Exhibition &#038; Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16387\" title=\"dash-snow-studio-visit\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/dash-snow-studio-visit.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"567\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewroth.com\/dashsnow.html\">Andrew Roth<\/a> is pleased to present <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewroth.com\/publications.html\">\u201cMovie List\u201d<\/a> a book\/object created from an original maquette from the estate of Dash Snow, to accompany the exhibition of a selection of his original zine works. This is the first solo exhibition of Snow\u2019s in New York City since 2006. \u00a0\u201cMovie List\u201d is published by PPP Editions in a limited edition of 175 slip-cased copies.<\/p>\n<p>Periodically, and always unannounced, Dash would show up. I never expected to see him but was always inexplicably happy when I did. He\u2019d appear, as if from the underworld, a later day Hermes invoked in the Homeric hymn as one \u201cof many shifts, blandly cunning, a robber, a cattle driver, a bringer of dreams, a watcher by night, a thief at the gates, one who was soon to show forth wonderful deeds among the deathless gods.\u201d Sometimes he\u2019d come bearing testament to his travels in the form of zines, loose-bound photocopied Odysseys of the obsessions, compulsions and other sirens he\u2019d encountered on the way. Of the thirty or so he made each had its own visual and narrative texture. They ranged from densely crafted accretions of original Polaroids, tabloid mendacities, and graffitied commentary signed in bodily fluid, to spare photo essays that consisted of nothing more than images culled from a day in the company of a deranged old man with long white hair, channeling the hysteric and luminous howl of a Ginsberg on the skids. Often, the zines recalled the happy hour of the day to show the dark fermenting cocktail of energy and anxiety beneath; always, they were gifts \u2013 offerings from the other side. Typically, they were inscribed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-16388\" title=\"dash snow 1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/dash-snow-1-560x419.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/dash-snow-1-560x419.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/dash-snow-1.jpeg 668w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t receive a copy of \u2018Movie List\u2019 in part perhaps because it was never made. Snow had been in LA doing a stint of community service when he came across a readymade litany of sexual proclivity in a video store that had recently gone under. His attempts to turn the images on the VHS sleeves into a zine foundered. The copy shop he used in NY was unable to reproduce to his satisfaction the gold paper that imbued each cover with a halo of orthodox. Meticulous as ever, he understood that degeneracy as much as pure form lives and dies in its presentation. The bestowal may have been as casual as the poetry of insolent dereliction they carried, but the execution was not. As Jade Berreau, Snow\u2019s long-time companion explains, \u201cDash treated the making of his zines with the same dedication and passion as he did his art. The only difference was that the zines were to be photocopied and handed out to as many people as he wanted, and that was exciting. Each one had its own private significance that he couldn&#8217;t wait to share.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Movie List\u2019 is just that. An inventory of low-end titles drawn from a VHS Gomorrah it flips between hardcore depravity and comedic debasement. Its cover-flow is like the seismograph of an era\u2019s frustrated desires, misogynist yearnings and wack imaginations. Inside, there was more to be learnt about our times than from the sanctioned holdings of more official histories. Snow, forever Catholic in his taste, offered through the list of titles a blood, cum and guts tour of a salacious bootleg Hades of\u00a0<em>TV Shoe Store Fantasies, Cannibal Hookers, Sluts with Nuts, Naughty Nazi\u2019s, Rape Lube, War Pigs, Club Fuck<\/em>\u00a0and more. Something for everyone as the title\u00a0<em>Even Hitler had a Girlfriend<\/em>\u00a0made clear. Perhaps more than any of his generation Dash understood that only through the gilding of filth can it receive the attention it truly deserves.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Roth<\/em>, 160a East 7oth St, NYC, 212-717-9067, now-December 23<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Roth is pleased to present \u201cMovie List\u201d a book\/object created from an original maquette from the estate of Dash Snow, to accompany the exhibition of a selection of his original zine works. 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