FOLD and Cafe Sauce present:

NOUSTROPHAGOPHILIA

BLOOD FEAST FOR THE MIND: Psychogenic phase transition portends the entity-nonentity.

Friday, April 29th, 7pm – 11pm

During Stewart Losee’s solo exhibition Kabinet Materia.

Please join us at a very special event, a pre-premiere of FOLD’s new play MIND. Inspired by French poststructuralism/existentialism, the Mandala principle of Tibetan buddhism, and the Western hermetic tradition, MIND pits five projections of neurotic consciousness against each other in a doomed struggle for metaphysical supremacy and self-transcendence.

Followed by a delicious cannibal feast….

MIND
Presented by FOLD
Written by: Eli Epstein-Deutsch, Ben Rosenberg, Etienne Pierre Duguay
Costumes by: Ben Rosenberg
Additional set design by FOLD
Solo Exhibition of work by: Stewart Losee.
Directed by Etienne Pierre Duguay
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KABINET MATERIA:
Losee’s work has long tread the line between so-called naïve and ‘high’ art, believing that both may offer up a mirror to the human psyche, illuminating the algorithms of raw desire. The works at KABINET MATERIA largely consist of gouache over wooden relief. Losee cuts the reliefs utilizing a CNC router, and mixes all of the paints himself to achieve a highly-saturated palette. Evoking digitally-oriented subject matter through traditional materials, Losee parodies the influx of would be folk artists into the new medium of the Internet. Large-scale facades have been substituted for the walls and floor of the gallery so as to provide an environment which the remaining works can inhabit, suggesting an installation arranged like a hypertext. A picture in a room can represent a portal to another room: worlds within worlds strung together with repeating motifs.
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Nous (/ˈnuːs/), sometimes equated to intellect or intelligence, is a philosophical term for the faculty of the human mind which is described in classical philosophy as necessary for understanding what is true or real.

Gastro- is a common English-language prefix derived from the ancient Greek gastros (“stomach”).

Phago- Word Origin: a combining form meaning “eating, devouring,” used in the formation of compound words.

Philia (/ˈfɪljə/ or /ˈfɪliə/; Ancient Greek: φιλία), is one of the four ancient Greek words for love. In Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, philia is usually translated as affection. The complete opposite is called a phobia.
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