1:1 is proud to present the first exhibition of visual art by poet- iconoclast Peter Lamborn Wilson, aka Hakim Bey. His collages and assemblages are psycho-geographies, cryptic records of transient rituals the poet performed at sites with historical/mystical significance around the Hudson River Valley from 2009-2011. He sees these visual maps as a way of “extruding his words into the material realm.” Wilson merges a lineage of subversive play from Alfred Jarry and the Situationists with his vast knowledge of American hermeticism — a potent mixture of African American ritual, Native American medicine, and European occult sources. It is clear to see the political connections between these recent psycho-topographies and Wilson’s seminal text T.A.Z: The Temporary Autonomous Zone (1991): “The “map” is a political abstract grid, a gigantic con enforced by the carrot/stick conditioning of the “Expert” State, until for most of us the map becomes the territory- -no longer “Turtle Island,” but “the USA.” And yet because the map is an abstraction it cannot cover Earth with 1:1 accuracy. Within the fractal complexities of actual geography the map can see only dimensional grids. Hidden enfolded immensities escape the measuring rod. The map is not accurate; the map cannot be accurate.” Through the operations of poetry Wilson attempts to return those “hidden enfolded immensities” to the world of lived experience. On October 11th 1:1 will host SPIT BANQUET—an evening long performance in the spirit of Wilson’s work — a feast of bodily ecstasy, repulsion, liberation and social ritual. SPIT BANQUET invokes Nietzsche in his last “insane” letter to Cosima Wagner “...this time however I come as the victorious Dionysus, who will turn the world into a holiday.” 1:1 is a temporary autonomous zone, artist-run project, exhibition, & events space located at 121 Essex St. at Delancey. Our primary concern is contemporary conceptual stances within a social context; an attitude of resistance that is actively pleasurable and is not reactionary. We work with film, video, drawings, painting, sculpture, and performance,in tandem with frequent events. Through our fiscal sponsor, Franklin Furnace Archives, we are a not-for-profit organization and a portion of all art sales is a tax deductible donation.