Industry of the Ordinary
(Adam Brooks and Mathew Wilson)
Beauty, Terrible Beauty
April 27 to June 29, 2024
Industry of the Ordinary is a Chicago-based collaborative project of Adam Brooks and Mathew Wilson, who for over 20 years have used performance, installation, objects, and interventions to explore and celebrate “ordinariness” and to challenge and elevate the everyday experience into an endeavor worthy of study and veneration.
Industry of the Ordinary dedicate this exhibition to their friend and collaborator Jay Wolke
• • • • •
Limited edition print
Industry of the Ordinary has partnered with BGFA to produce a limited edition print of this image “Disclaimer” as a 1 color letterpress print, produced in Chicago by Process Process, and published by BGFA. The print uses handmade paper made from bibles, and a dark red ink made from wine.
All prints will be accompanied by a certificate of authenticity and a publisher’s documentation.
Disclaimer
Letterpress on handmade paper made from bibles, printed with ink made from wine
Edition of 25
20 x 16”
2024
Numbered and signed on reverse, lower left
$600
• • • • •
Artworks in the show
Beauty, Terrible Beauty
Photograph, mounted to Dibond, unglazed, with frame
Edition of 20, 6 AP’s
25” x 25” x 1 1/2” framed
2023
From a performance in which 100 golden apples were distributed to the guests at the Hyde Park Art Center Gala in 2022. It was left to rot from the inside out for 9 months and then photographed.
Photo by Jay Wolke.
$2,500
Match of the Day II
Photograph of performance
(Industry of the Ordinary, as Old God and Young God, play table football, first to 100 goals, on the promontory point by North Avenue beach in Chicago)
Edition of 15
Image 17.75 x 28.75”, Framed 27 x 38”
2005
$2,500
Phosphorus
(Industry of the Ordinary drink a crate of beer and document the change in color of their urine)
Photograph
Edition of 8
Image 13 x 20”, frame 21 x 27”
2004
$2,000
$1 Tender II
(Industry of the Ordinary transform a bible into a dollar bill)
Pulped paper, graphite
Unique
Image 8.5 x 17.625”, frame 12 x 22”
2006
$4,000
$10 Tender II
(Industry of the Ordinary transform The 9/11 Report Commission Report into a ten dollar bill)
Pulped paper, graphite
Unique
Image 8.5 x 17.625”, frame 12 x 22”
2006
$4,000
$100 Tender II
(Industry of the Ordinary transform The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire into a hundred dollar bill)
Pulped paper, graphite
Unique
Image 8.625 x 17.5”, frame 12 x 22”
2006
$4,000
Ghost Of the Real
Ghost of the Real offers a captivating exploration of the intersection between human creativity and artificial intelligence with a collaboration between an AI and Industry of the Ordinary.
In this collaboration, Industry of the Ordinary push the boundaries of traditional artistic practice by inviting an AI into their creative process. Through a series of conversations, they challenge preconceived notions of authorship, agency, and the role of technology in shaping human expression and experience.
If any creative collaboration results in the creation of a ‘third mind’, what is the ontological status of this third mind if one of the instigating minds is artificial? It has been suggested that technology, as a tool, changes the way we know the world and ourselves. Here, Industry of the Ordinary explore the possibility of a creative collaboration as they move towards a simulated reality.
• • • • •
Site-specific phototex installation and accompanying 450 page book based upon hundreds of conversations with an AI
8.5 x 11 x 1”
2024
Book $100
To purchase the book, please click here
• • • • •
