LOCUST PROJECTS
105 NW 23rd St.
Miami, Fl 33127
ph305.576.8570 fax801.740.9883
http://www.locustprojects.org
locustprojects@yahoo.com

In the main space:
ALEX BAG: The Coven Services for Consumer Mesmerism,
Product Sorcery, and the Necromantic Reimagination of
Consumption

In the project room:
NEIL WHITACRE

NEWSPAPER ARTICLE

JANUARY 8th-FEBRUARY 26th, 2005

Opening reception: Saturday, JANUARY 8th @ 8 pm

We can already hear the complaints: LOCUST PROJECTS is
becoming all about pentagrams, burning black candles,
satanic teenagers. Why the regression? Why the
middle-age fascination with maladjusted adolescents?
Have they been reading too many Dennis Cooper novels
over there?
By way of an answer, we’ve invited Alex Bag to
exhibit one of her tweaked out installations at LOCUST
PROJECTS. In her work, satanic teenagedom is less
subject matter than a platform from where to deliver
stinging critiques of the social arrangements that
capital underwrites. This exhibition features a video
installation and proposed ad campaigns authored by a
uniquely innovative new company. Part think tank, part
P.R. firm, part corporate image consultant, and part
advertising agency, Coven Services for Consumer
Mesmerism, Product Sorcery, and the Necromantic
Reimagination of Consumption embraces a grimly evolved
style of capitalism that views consumers as pawns
whose weaknesses are seized upon and encouraged. The
company’s clients are some of the world’s largest,
most powerful and sinister multinational corporations.
As the name suggests, Coven Services employs
witchcraft and mystical traditions in addition to
standard advertising language and methods to generate
print ads, television commercials, and corporate
damage control efforts for its clients.
In the Project Room: Neil Whitacre will show a
swindler’s dozen (11) of his strange drawings,
featuring hybrid animals, deserted islands, and
tropical landscapes. Introverted but humorous, the
drawings that Whitacre is showing this time around
riff on our tropical clichés, nature-loving souls, and
the possible mutants that may be taking shape right
under our palm fronds.

NEIL WHITACRE DRAWING:

LOCUST PROJECTS is sponsored, in part, by The Dade
Community Foundation with support of The Miami-Dade
County Dept of Cultural Affairs, The Cultural Affairs
Council, The Mayor, and The Miami-Dade Board of County
Commissioners.