FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 20, 2013
Contact: Graciela Kahn
Associate Director of Programming
For five weeks only Future Tenant will showcase a decade’s worth of the Orgone’s Archive promotion and propaganda.
I N V E N T O R Y: The Orgone Archive, Pittsburgh 13 (2002-2013)
Curated by Greg Pierce
At Future Tenant 819 Penn Ave.
Opening reception Friday June 7, 2013 | 7-10 PM
On display from June 7 to July 14, 2013
Free Admission
(May 20, 2013) Future Tenant is presenting I N V E N T O R Y: The Orgone Archive, Pittsburgh 13 (2002-2013). This exhibition will showcase a decade’s worth of promotion and propaganda in the form of posters, stickers and bits of paper created by The Orgone Archive for its cinema outings. Orgone is a motion picture archive and screening outfit based in Pittsburgh specializing in inscrutable epiphanies, toilet trims, unknown what-have-yous, perfect industrial rolls, home movie printing tests, corporate comedies, Warholian strikebreaking screeds, the all-around beautiful and everything else. Originally founded in 1993 as Orgone Cinema by Jeff Armstrong, Michael Johnsen and Greg Pierce as a break-even motion picture exhibition group dedicated to a sincere film culture, it presented unique monthly shows of home movies, industrial, educational, experimental, and documentary films, light and sound performances, and visiting film and videomakers at the Silver Eye Center for Photography on the South Side. Orgone is also (and was) a travelling cinema band that screens and performs films at home and nationally. Greg Pierce is the current custodian of this proudly fringe collection.
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Future Tenant is a non-profit art space located in downtown Pittsburgh at 819 Penn Avenue dedicated to showcasing the work of emerging artists through exhibitions that offer a cutting edge perspective on the Pittsburgh art scene. For more information about this show and other Future Tenant programming, please visit www.futuretenant.org.