COMING SOON ISTANBUL’74 presents RANDOM FOREST (A Reading Room) By Jonah Freeman & Justin Lowe With Boo-Hooray OPENING SEPTEMBER 15 “In his essay The Electronic Revolution, William S. Burroughs cites the work of German Doktor Kurt Unruh von Steinplatz, who posited a theory that language originated in humans through a biological mutation of the nervous system caused by viral infection. Once the human body was infected with the language virus, it would replicate and mutate exponentially.” —Jonah Freeman Inspired by William S. Burroughs’ The Electronic Revolution, the New York artist duo Freeman & Lowe take over a 19th century French orphanage in Istanbul and transform the space into a reading room. Conceived as an anachronistic vessel, the exhibition frames a group of artists, writers and musicians who have taken the language, the word and the book as a basis for broad methods for cut-up, collage and disruption. @istanbul74_ @freeman_lowe @jonahfree @johankugelberg