Koh & 50 Most Beautiful Boy

Terence Koh

Artist Publication

Catalogue in rubber box: 2 performance CDs, 3 booklets, 1 unique sculpture on felt, silver embossed Koh card, black & white poster
5.75 x 8 x .75 inches
Edition: unknown
Provenance: Printed Matter, New York
Acquired: 2004

Description

“For the performance 50 Most Beautiful Boy at Peres Projects in Los Angeles (2004), the Beijing born, Canadian raised, Brooklyn based artist Terrence Koh sang into a microphone while two young boys—child actors hired from a Hollywood agency and selected for their "really great nipples " -played drums covered in jewels unraveled from chandeliers. Mirror shards hung on threads from the ceiling and the room was covered in white powder. We include it here for two reasons: Koh’s performances bear a marked similarity to the baroque theatricality-not to mention the homoerotic themes-of Eikoh Hosoe’s collaborations with writer Yukio Mishima in Ordeal by Roses and Killed by Roses . In addition, the style that Dean Sameshima and Robert Wedemeyer employ in their photographic records of Koh’s performances bears a striking resemblance to the rough, grainy, out of focus aesthetic of the hugely influential Provoke movement of early 70s Japan."

from photoeye.com

planned edition of 200, final figure unknown