Stevie Cisneros Hanley, Sara Ludy, Alison O'Daniel, Phil Peters, curated by Gan Uyeda
January 18–March 20, 2020
The thing about raw sewage: You treat it with loving care. You route it through bar screens way under ground, pump it up to settling tanks and aeration tanks. And you separate it and skim it and nurse it with bacteria because this is your medium now.
A warlike substance with a funky savor to it.
You wait for a sludge tanker to come and get it. Honey buckets, they're called in the Northeast. The tanker dumps the sludge in the ocean. Like you take a dump in your own home. One hundred and six miles from the Jersey Shore, legally. Or less, illegally.
Interesting, isn't it? Never thought about it, did you? Never thought about it. Say it...vaguely, maybe. This is what you and I, and all of us here, fundamentally deal with. Over and above. Or under and below.
All waste is what I'm saying.\*
Psychic Plumbing is the inaugural exhibition of Canary Test, a program in the Fashion District of Downtown Los Angeles.
\*Adapted from Don Delillo, Underworld (New York: Scribner, 1997), pp. 301-302
