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With his nomadic mind- fuck of a gallery VECTOR currently in place in LA, JJ Brine remains the American art world\u2019s answer to GG\u00a0Allin. Just ask Bruce LaBruce.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWell, it\u2019s 2025 now and there are totally new inspirations and totally new concerns. The gallery reflects these. In 2025, we control significant factions of the US government, not to mention The Levant. The United Nations\u00a0has collapsed, leaving a psychic political\u00a0power vacuum in its wake, and The Satanic State of VECTOR, the smallest sovereign state in territorial terms, has been declared an \u2018experimental international neutrality zone\u2019 or in other words, VECTOR Gallery is the frontline for World War III.\u201d<\/p>\n

JJ Brine is addressing the move of his ever- evolving artwork, VECTOR Gallery, to Los Angeles, where it has landed for version 3.0. The years referred to follow his own Vectorian calendar, not the one on the front of today\u2019s newspaper.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am dying and being born again at all times,\u201d he continues. \u201cThe Devil is The Lord and The Lord is The Devil.\u201d<\/p>\n

The gallery closed its Lower East Side space\u00a0in New York last April, following two years of heat. People were intrigued or appalled \u2013 never anything in-between \u2013 by the gallery\u2019s liberal use of satanic imagery and images of Charles Manson. Brine also performs in a Charles Manson-themed \u201cElectronic Spirit Music\u201d duo called The LaBiancas. VECTOR was a place where you had to promise your soul to get through the door to the bathroom (he has, following the site\u2019s closure, given all souls back). That\u2019s if you could get through the door at all, the gallery having spent most of its time locked with the lights on – a sprawling pit of silver and the holographic rainbow that came with it almost goading the street outside. The fact that the Wall Street Journal<\/em> wrote a piece about it speaks volumes.<\/p>\n

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But what is VECTOR Gallery, exactly? Other than being akin to Bruce LaBruce (more from him later) and Marilyn Manson in its ability to fluster America.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a posthuman art temple crafted in sublimely diabolical tribute to the unity of The Devil and The Lord, catalysing the process by which The Devil and The Lord are integrated in the psyche of the externality,\u201d Brine begins. \u201cVECTOR has its own time-zone, glossary, religion, culture and government. There\u2019s no war between hell and heaven, these things are all acting symbiotically and they are within all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

When not referring to VECTOR as The Antichrist, Brine likes aquariums and fishing. He\u2019ll listen
\nto music and likes to go into trances. \u201cI smoke a pack of cigarettes and I wink at myself in another dimension,\u201d he says. \u201cSome people would call this meditating.\u201d Brine travels a\u00a0lot, visiting Tanna, Vanuatu and Haiti over the summer. \u201cIn Tanna I stayed in Yaohnanen with The Prince Philip Movement (Eye Came And Went As Emissary of YASUR). I visited to see my good friend Max Beauvoir (Supreme Chief of Haitian Voodoo) and we performed a special Renewal Ritual \u2013 The Renewal Has No Name & Cannot Be Contained.\u201d<\/p>\n

Currently, VECTOR is in the process of forming an all-female \u201cGirl Government\u201d, with Vectorian Minister of Cults, Annaliese Nielsen. Brine opened a pop-up VECTOR at The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in September. There\u2019s talk of opening VECTOR in Tokyo, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe VECTOR Gallery is a welcome return to the gallery as art factory, governed by the fecund artist himself, churning out product with a consistent and immediately recognised gestalt,\u201d Brine\u2019s friend, the artist and filmmaker Bruce LaBruce told Wonderland over email. It\u2019s fitting that he should get the last word. \u201cIf the Manson Family, Warhol\u2019s Factory, Maya Deren, and the Dalai Lama had an orgy that produced a bastard child, it would be JJ Brine.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Photography<\/strong>: Harry Carr<\/p>\n

Words<\/strong>: Dean Mayo Davies<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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