Evidence: Holding Space for the Ephemeral @ UNTITLED vol.2
“As we continue our programing for EVIDENCE, join us in welcoming NYC artist, Eugene McCoy, performing his multidisciplinary work, Journal #1, X-Rated. Poetry offerings from Emily Chan + Paul Ukrainets and Music from DJs El Ojo Feo will accompany the evening. Special curated goods and a limited edition record release from McCoy’s Spectral Spells are available in the gallery shop! Beverages sponsored by our friends at Goodtimes Oakland. Installation Journal #1, X-Rated and other permanent works from featured artists, Selby Sohn and Guillermo Gómez-Peña will be on view through June 27. See you there, xo!”
Love, Brooke + Kim
Eugene McCoy is a multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, New York working between fashion design, painting, installation, video and music. He has performed regularly with Lacey Spacecake as well as a range of projects, including Funeral Circuit, while releasing his primary body of music as Spectral Spells.
Originally trained in fashion design, McCoy approaches clothing as both medium and subject—creating and repurposing garments as objects within his broader visual language. Integrating music, video and poetry into his craft, he seamlessly extends his practice across sound, text, and performance. His work has been shown and performed in Denver, San Francisco, and New York.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
EVIDENCE considers the symbiotic relationship between performance and its documentation, not as a secondary or supplementary act, but as an integral part of the work itself. Photography, video, text, and residual objects do not simply capture performance; they reconstitute it. In many cases, they become the primary state through which the work is encountered, remembered, and archived.
The works gathered here approach Evidence as interpretation—an active, generative process that reshapes the live act into something that can circulate, endure, and be reactivated across time. What emerges is not a fixed record of something past, but an ongoing negotiation between disappearance and permanence. Performance, in this context, is never fully lost; it is continuously re-performed through its traces. Likewise, documentation is never neutral—it is a living extension of the work, capable of producing new meanings and new ways to engage with the human condition throughout time.
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Photo + Video + Installation Credits:
Zen Cohen
Selby Sohn
Eugene McCoy
Anne McGuire
Jasmine Zhang
Elizabeth Preger
Shirin Khalatbari
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Readings by:
Hannah Möller- May 23
Emily Chan- June 13
Quinn Edlin- June 27