New work for OCD Chinatown @ocdchinatown. @muck_stud Geo Wyex will be on view beginning September 11th. Very pumped to begin rolling out the hand-drawn typeface ive been dreaming about for a few. A note from the curators: OCDChinatown presents Geo Wyex, Muck Studies Dept. “Looking for Stars Out of What Stinks” curated by Tavia Nyong’o. A site-specific installation with performance ephemera and sound will be on view Saturdays and Sundays or by appointment at OCDChinatown, a queer art space located on the second floor of New York Mart, underneath the Manhattan Bridge. Encompassing the multi-year artistic research of the multidisciplinary artist Geo Wyex (b.1984 New York, NY), the Muck Studies Department investigates the black historical memory resident in three bodies of water: the Maas River in Rotterdam, the Mississippi River in Louisiana and Mississippi, and a bathtub in rural South Carolina. Wading into these waters, the Muck Studies Department moves in the legacy of writers such as Ida B. Wells and Upton Sinclair, journalists whose investigations into the putrid underbelly of white supremacy and capitalism were denounced as muck-raking. In dialogue with Black Trans Theory, Conceptual and Fluxus Art, Soil Science, and Poetry, Wyex posits muck as an amalgamation of power, desire, violence, history, study, and sparkle. Through his interventions, OCDChinatown space will be transformed into the temporary office location of a “self-appointed fake city agent” of the Muck Studies Department.