Geo Wyex (b.1984) is an artist and educator based between New York and Rotterdam, NL. He works primarily in performance, music, poetry, and sound. His most recent record, ATM FM (2020), was released through Muck Studies Dept. – a constellational narrative framework and imaginary city agent that surveys the bottom of low-lying water areas, “looking for stars out of what stinks.” Muck Studies Dept. as a project is a Weltanschauung, with many forms and formats. Inspired by aesthetics and methodologies of black Atlantic poetics, investigative journalism and absurdist theater, the project connects mud, water, gas, ass, rocks, coins, keys, extractive industry, and sensual expression of belonging to that flood.
Tickets: Stockholms Stadsmission
On March 6, Pope.L was supposed to present a performance lecture for World in My Eyes. He suddenly passed away in the final days of 2023. Departing from his absence, Geo Wyex’s talk will navigate the seminal work by Pope. L, Hole Theory (2002). In Hole Theory, Pope L. engaged potentials of lack and fantasies of possession, examining broader social, and existential boundaries. Through the humor and aesthetics of negation expressed in Hole Theory and Wyex’s practice the discussion will extend to the role of longing, absence and the inexistent in shaping our social and political imaginary.
Geo Wyex has presented work at Moderna Museet, MoMA PS1, New Museum, NY Live Arts, Stedelijk Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Dutch National Opera, L’Arsenic, Joe’s Pub, and many others. He was a resident at the Rijksakademie in 2015-2016. Recent collaborators include Constantina Zavitsanos, Will Rawls, A.K. Burns, Every Ocean Hughes, Colin Self, and Tourmaline. He has a solo exhibition forthcoming at JOAN in Los Angeles, 2024.
World in My Eyes is a series of artist talks during the fall of 2023 and beginning of 2024, that presents the artists Emeka Ogboh, Yazan Khalili and Geo Wyex. Common to the artists is their innovative practices that, in a time of political instability and increasing polarization, are changing and diversifying the contemporary art scene – through performance, sculpture, sound and painting.
The artist talk series features artistic perspectives from a wide range of media that transform the relationship between material processes and socio-political imaginaries. The title, “World in my Eyes”, is taken from the 1990s hit by the British synth group Depeche Mode.
World in My Eyes is a collaboration between Konstfack, Moderna Museet and the Royal Institute of Art, and is organized in 2023-2024 by Stockholms Stadsmission’s Meeting Place Mariatorget.