Reflections from Damaged Life.
An exhibition on psychedelia

26 September to 15 December 2013


Exhibition views

Foreground:

Henriette Heise

Darkness Machine, 2010

Background:

The Cockettes

Tricia’s Wedding, 1971

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith

 

Detail:

Henriette Heise

Darkness Machine, 2010

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith

 

Öyvind Fahlström

The Little General (Pinball Machine), 1967–68

Collection Sharon Avery-Fahlström

On long-term loan to Museu d'Art Contemporani de

Barcelona (MACBA)

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith

 

Öyvind Fahlström

The Little General (Pinball Machine), 1967–68

Collection Sharon Avery-Fahlström

On long-term loan to Museu d'Art Contemporani de

Barcelona (MACBA)

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith

 

Öyvind Fahlström

The Little General (Pinball Machine), 1967–68

Collection Sharon Avery-Fahlström

On long-term loan to Museu d'Art Contemporani de

Barcelona (MACBA)

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith

 

Pierre Huyghe

L'Expédition Scintillante, Act 2 (light show), 2002

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith

Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León

(MUSAC)

 

Pierre Huyghe

L'Expédition Scintillante, Act 2 (light show), 2002

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith

Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León

(MUSAC)

 

Pierre Huyghe

L'Expédition Scintillante, Act 2 (light show), 2002

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith

Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León

(MUSAC)

 

On monitor:

Willoughby Sharp

COUGH UP!, 1975

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith

Alan Powell video archives

 

Learning Site (Rikke Luther with Jaime Stapleton)

House of Welfare, 2013

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith

 

Learning Site (Rikke Luther with Jaime Stapleton)

House of Welfare, 2013

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith

 

Marta Minujín

In vitrine:

Lo Inadvertido [The Inattentiveness], 1969

Background:

Archival documentation of Importación / Exportación

[Import/Export], 1968

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith

Collection of Mauro Herlitzka

 

Sigmar Polke

Mushrooms, ca. 1972

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith

Private collection

 

Right:

Sigmar Polke

Untitled (Head), 1966–68

Left:

David Medalla

The Raven mask for ‘The Bird Ballet’

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith

Private collection, London

 

David Medalla

The Raven mask for ‘The Bird Ballet’ performed at the

Roundhouse, Camden, October 1967 by The Exploding

Galaxy

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith

 

 

In vitrine:

Archival material relating to ‘The Bird Ballet’ performed

at the Roundhouse, Camden, October 1967 by The

Exploding Galaxy

Left:

David Medalla

The Rainbow Bird mask for ‘The Bird Ballet’

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith

 

Sture Johannesson

Japanese Omnidelics, 1956–59

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith

Collection of Mathias Swinge

 

Jordan Belson

Still from World, 1970

Courtesy Center for Visual Music, Los Angeles

 

Foreground:

Magma, Curatorial intervention by Yann Blanc Chateigné

and Lars Bang Larsen

Background, left to right:

Jes Brinch,

Lava Lamp, 1997/2013

Dexter Sinister

Infinite Poster for a Solstice Party (Summer), 2013

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith

 

Dexter Sinister

Infinite Poster for a Solstice Party (Summer), 2013

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith

 

Foreground:

Magma, Curatorial intervention by Yann Blanc Chateigné

and Lars Bang Larsen

Background, left to right:

Tadanori Yokoo

Wonderland, 1973

Barakei: Ordeal by Roses (Mishima Yukio), 2007

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith

Private collection

 

Foreground:

Robert Horvitz

A Many Splendoured Thing, 2008

Background:

Robert Horvitz

Form is the Language of Time (for Keith Jarrett), 1970

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith


 

Robert Horvitz

Personal Domain of Freedom and Ecstasy 1, 1973

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith

 

Foreground:

Robert Horvitz

Personal Domain of Freedom and Ecstasy 1, 1973

Background, left to right:

Robert Horvitz

Page from my Diary: 22 September–4 October 1972, 1972

Page from my Diary: 9–14 September 1974, 1974

At First Sight, 2011

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith

 

The Otolith Group

Anathema, 2011

Photograph by Marcus J. Leith