Rik Garrett - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I make artwork:Mainly photographs - (my photography website) . Film + darkroom. Not digital. If you look in person, this is obvious.I am represented by Art@Large (NYC) and The Museum of Porn in Art (Zurich, Switzerland)-----------------------------------------
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-----------------------------------------Read some interviews with me: Eros Zine interview with Rik Garrett
The Extra Finger interview with Rik Garrett-----------------------------------------currently showing works at CPOP Gallery in Detroit MI
Via Les Barany and Barany Artists
Continuing through October-----------------------------------------I make books you can't read which are accompanied by unintelligible recordings. I make loud noises some days. I'll spend hours finding out in exactly what ways certain chemicals will destroy photographs, or exactly how much torture audio tape can withstand before snapping. So clearly, I'm the life of any party.If you want to add me as a 'friend', write and let me know who you are. Say hello. Isn't that what friends do?----------------------------------------- Some of my music projects: CHANTS - solo vocal pieces, recorded live. An idea of what I might do at a solo performance. Maybe.LUVZYA - This has become the major musical focus. It started as an idea for a solo project, but now it is not. Belarion Lodge - improv two person doom assault. I screamed so hard that I got a nosebleed and my eyeballs turned bright red. Somniloquist - 2 person long distance collaboration which apparently died a few years ago

My Interests

darkroom. polaroid. nearly-forgotten photographic practices. painting. collaborative art projects. music making and audio manipulation. collecting everything. giving myself impossible projects.

I'd like to meet:

Artists, film makers, musicians, writers, revolutionaries, etc. Persons to collaborate with on a variety of visual/audio/whatever type of projects. Gallery owners. Any of the above in Chicago, as I just moved here last summer.

Music:

khanate, neurosis, sunn, asva, john zorn (esp. naked city, painkiller, etc), wormwood, made out of babies, yma sumac, dokaka, hammers of misfortune, the boswell sisters, dystopia, ludicra, eddie cantor, corrupted, lost sounds, leviathan, mike patton, bad 80s pop music, swans, throbbing gristle, Cliff Edwards, diamanda galas, thrones, screamin' jay hawkins, delta blues, rudimentary peni, enrico caruso, tribes of neurot, jucifer, public enemy, contropotere, melvins, prince, crass, the pixies, thorr's hammer, queen adreena / daisy chainsaw, pj harvey, grief, shooby taylor, the andrews sisters, etc.

Movies:

Audition, Blue Velvet, Even Dwarfs Started Small, M, Pink Flamingos, Nosferatu, Private Parts (1972, not some other crap), any 'Ilsa' movie, the Tin Drum, Eraserhead, Metropolis

Books:

maldoror, Wm. S Burroughs, books about fascinating individuals, early photographic processes, dada/surrealist art (especially photography)

My Blog

Inexpensive prints for sale - "The Doll"

Last year I made reproductions of one of my older, one of a kind images to sell inexpensively. A lot of people can't afford a print, and I thought it would be a good idea to offer something affordable...
Posted by Rik Garrett on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:32:00 PST

big art website update

I finally got around to updating my website. New improved navigation, new photographs, improved scans of old photographs, an 'archive' gallery, etc. Take a look! www.ravished.org ...
Posted by Rik Garrett on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:20:00 PST

darkroom finally functional - first prints available

After nearly a year of waiting, a lot of stress, a brief trip to the emergency room and other related adventures, my darkroom is at long last set up, stocked and functional here in Chicago. Be...
Posted by Rik Garrett on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:10:00 PST

four new photographs

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Posted by Rik Garrett on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 11:20:00 PST

two new photographs

Posted by Rik Garrett on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 12:19:00 PST

images and audio from recent solo performance

On Saturday I performed a live solo set in Chicago at Hotti Biscotti. Other performers included Mister Fuckhead, Milkbaby and a guy who performed with circuit bent toys (I don't remember what name he ...
Posted by Rik Garrett on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:45:00 PST

live music performance on Saturday, January 20th in Chicago

I will be performing at this, along with Mister Fuckhead, EaViL and Milkbaby. I tried to invite anyone I know from the Chicago area, but this Myspace inviting thing kind of messed up and I had to try ...
Posted by Rik Garrett on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 09:39:00 PST

older 'doll' photographs

In planning a website overhaul, I realized that somehow I still haven't uploaded all 17 of the original 'doll' series, "Ars Automata". While I could make excuses for this (considering I finished these...
Posted by Rik Garrett on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 10:44:00 PST

new photographs - The Locust Bride (Autumn Came Waiting at Her Door)

New photographs, the ones I've been alluding to with my new profile photo. A series of eight of them. I couldn't decide which was my favorite, as they all came out very different (even though they are...
Posted by Rik Garrett on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 09:24:00 PST

finally - 3 new photographs!

With much help from a few great friends, I've finally gotten to the point where I can now take photographs again. While nothing (except my new tripod) is as nice and fancy as it was before I had...
Posted by Rik Garrett on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 06:51:00 PST