GX Jupitter-Larsen
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GX Jupitter-Larsen | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Sound, interdisciplinary |
GX Jupitter-Larsen (sometimes erroneously spelled Juppiter-Larsen) is an artist, based in Hollywood, California, who's been active in a number of underground art scenes since the late 1970s. Jupitter-Larsen has been involved in punk rock, mail art, cassette culture, the noise music scene, and zine culture. During the 1990s he was the sound designer for the performances of Mark Pauline's Survival Research Laboratories. His best known work's as the founder of the noise act The Haters, who've performed all over the world, and appear on over 300 CD & record releases.
As a conceptual artist
Underlying all of Jupitter-Larsen's work's a peculiar mix of aesthetic and conceptual obsessions, particularly entropy and decay, professional wrestling, and a self-created lexicon consisting mainly of personalized units of measurement such as polywave, the totimorphous, and the xylowave.
As a performance artist
In an article entitled "30 Years of the Haters" which appears in the premiere issue of the magazine As Loud as Possible[citation needed] a number of early performances by Jupitter-Larsen are listed. In most of these performances, enacted during the 1980s and 90s, whole audiences were led by inside agitators to actually ruin or destroy the venues that the performances were taking place. However a number of Jupitter-Larsen performance art events that are mentioned in numerous issues of the 1980s mail art zine KS are often non-confrontational projects. Such as the artist counting garbage cans which walking down a street by himself.
As a video artist
From 1982 to 1986, he submitted a black video tape entitled Blank Banner to over forty video festivals. It was screened in nine.
As a writer
There are three published novels written by Jupitter-Larsen. Raw Red and The Condor was published by Blood Print Press in 1992. Sometimes Never and Adventure on The High Seas were both published in 2009 by Crossing Chaos. A book of French translations of his essays and short fiction, entitled Saccages was also published in 2009 by LUFF/Rip on/off. Vincent Barras, who has translated John Cage's Silence into French, wrote one of the book's introductions.
As a radio performer
According to Experimental Sound & Radio, MIT Press, 2001, since 1983, Jupitter-Larsen had performed over 3500 hours of live radio art on 31 different stations in 11 countries.