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HIPNOSTASIS, 2009

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Panel Version.
6 synchronized flat screens and 3 sheet rock panels with ink writing.
Sound.
Duration: 7:00 minutes, loop.
Dimensions: 8 x 12 feet.

Hipnostasis is a 6 channel video installation. The inspiration for the piece comes from the past-life therapist which Okón and Pettibon visited together, and who told one of them that in a past life he had been a hippie cult-leader who died in a collective suicide.

 

The multi-channel video-installation explores the subculture of old hippies from Venice Beach. The videos feature men who have been living on the beach for more than 30 years faithful to their non-materialistic ideology, forming an alternative community that, despite its lack of touch with mainstream culture, manages to survive.

HIPNOSTASIS
books, articles & interviews

Freedom's Fantasy, lives stand still

Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times - June 12, 2009

Raymond Pettibon and Yoshua Okón. Critics' Picks

Aram Moshayedi - June 2009

A conversation with Raymond Pettibon and Yoshua Okon, ''Catalog for the exhibition Hipnostasis'
A conversation with Raymond Pettibon and Yoshua Okon, ''Catalog for the exhibition Hipnostasis'

Camille Weiner and Andrew Berardini,  Armory Center for the Arts - 2009