DJ Meisner: The Conspiracy was a Resume
The conspiracy was a resume. He worked at Gilead before he was the Secretary of State for the second time. Oh shit he worked at G.D. Searle too. “Prior to its 1985 merger with Monsanto, Searle was a company mainly focusing on life sciences, specifically pharmaceuticals, agriculture, and animal health.” Christ. It’s a subsidiary of Pfizer too. I’ve only got two tabs open and am losing my fucking mind.
I don’t know if it matters if it’s always been like this. Or, maybe it does matter but I just don’t really know what to do with that information. Put a finger down if your Art Practice is, at its best, a pseudo-psychological knolling of a barely comprehensible amount of information. At its worst, it’s laying the groundwork for my friends and family lying to the local news saying “I would’ve never seen this coming,”. It’s a maladapted House of Leaves–all the conclusions in the book about transhumanism are false but all the citations are true.
I think Richard Doty has a crush on me. He keeps sending me his frozen blood in the shape of a heart but doesn’t package it correctly so it always arrives melted on my doorstep. It’s for babies to think his middle name being Hussein means anything. Bro he is literally a Google employee (see What to Call New Google Employees by Bill Maher). Your ex is too, a google employee, she’s crazy and worked for the Post Office before. Went postal (went back on her medication, started hanging out with her friends more, and ultimately ended up making the healthiest decision in her life and breaking up with you. This literally isn’t about me FYI, this is about you).
Is it poetry or is it amphetamines? Is it Travis Jeppesen now or Nick Land then? Is it illegal to become a congressman only because you have an insider-trading addiction? Where can I get Comirnaty in the US? Is it a venn diagram or is it a circle? Is it really only about time? Is the difference between an oil company and a pharmaceutical company only 5 years in either direction? Say you have an entry titled World War II and The Holocaust on the wikipedia page for your German multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company without saying you have an entry titled World War II and The Holocaust on the wikipedia page for your German multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company. Science for a Better Life. Alright now say it ten times fast.
Maybe people do think I’m doing okay. Maybe I don’t have to preface every body of work with “heyyyy, uhh don’t freak out...” Because it is true, I am doing okay, doing pretty good actually. Turns out Hunter Biden was right when he (never actually said) “It’s amazing what became of my art practice after I went to therapy” You know what’s better than paintings and sculptures that make you feel bad? Paintings and sculptures that make you feel good. I’m swapping out all my copies of A Little Life for handwritten copies of the final chapter of Art in the After-Culture.
It’s a selection of mixed media paintings and metal etchings that try to anticipate contemporary relics and mythmaking from the perspective of a near future looking back. It’s about grief instead of survival, about being alive right now and also wanting to be alive later too, and wanting that for others. It’s about being steady-and-realistic hope-pilled but not delusional, sincere but not vapid.
