CONSTELLATIONS OF THE ART MECHANISM

In this ambitious essay, Adam articulates the way that artworks function from their interior – Discussing various productions spanning paintings, songs, movies, sculptures, poems, and perfumes – he attempts to outline nine essential gears that form the mechanism by which all artworks function: (Symbol, Noise, Void, Hybridity, Mindwheel, Gridding, Hypnotic magic, World Making, and Resolution).   Adam hopes you enjoy this thought provoking essay, and that you will share it with friends and engage in the discussion with others about what artworks are and how they work on the inside. 

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CARNIVAL MACHINE

In this illustrated epic poem book, you’ll enter into the carnival dimension of Green’s cosmos. Get ready to encounter a claustrophobic landscape of avatars and holograms as you wander through this hallucinatory history of carnival.  Intersect with the excitable reptile brain of humanity, among the rides and amusements — with adventures such as making love to an anthropomorphic storefront,  submitting to a bureaucratic nightmare of a vending machine, and being reincarnated through an esoteric ritual

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‘Subcultural Karate Turtles’ is a graphic-novel parody of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles from the author of War and Paradise A satirical graphic novel by artist, musician, creative polymath and Moldy Peaches founder Adam Green (born 1981), Subcultural Karate Turtles is a parody of the popular Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon. Green reimagines the turtles as subcultural artists who must battle the mainstream to determine the future of art. Set in an intergalactic Kabuki theater, the book is a play inside of a comic book. Against the backdrop of childhood iconography, the psychedelic dialogue functions as a critique of cultural theory.
 
 
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‘MDVL: 1,000 Years of Dark Ages’ is an epic poem movie, written, illustrated, and narrated by artist/musician Adam Green and directed by animator Tom Bayne.  The surrealist epic poem is about AI, corporate communism, the hard drive of the universe, the phreaker wizard merlin, a plant orgy, mandatory corneal implants, a crusade to silicon valley,  and the future world becoming medieval again.
 
 
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WAR AND PARADISE
‘War and Paradise’ is Adam Green’s first graphic novel —
Operating your consciousness can feel like playing a video game, and Adam Green contends that it felt that way thousands of years before video games existed. In War and Paradise, the question of time and consciousness is central as the internet meets the Middle Ages.  Green’s graphic novel is a comic farce spun out of control, out of time, and into an entirely new dimension of a Jodorowsky-like psychological survey through a lyrical interior landscape. As satire and absurdism conjoin to become the most logical response to our own wildly confusing and nonsensical world, War and Paradise cuts its sharp social commentary with laughter. Green’s insightful and imaginative prose will transport you to somewhere you’ve never been before.
 
 
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THE LAKE ROOM
The Lake Room was Adam’s online diary from December 1st 2008- August 19th 2010. It originally began as an assignment for Die Zeit, a German newspaper, which asked Adam to chronicle his daily life leading up to the new year, unaware that he was a depressed drug addict.

What it ultimately became was an uncensored look into the lives of some of New York City’s most recognizable and notorious characters: from musicians and actors to It-Girl Lolitas, with Adam as a decadent tour guide. Characterized by its Lo-Fi,  handwritten style The Lake Room was more personal in content and style than any blog before it.

A startling display of exhibitionism, The Lake Room drew an audience that both desired and feared the voyeuristic look into Adam’s nihilistic worldview.

What could be characterized as a ” bleak and dark period” in Adam’s life, ultimately proved to be the springboard for his pursuits in film and visual art.

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ADAM GREEN MAGAZINE
Adam made 4 poetry zines between 2001 and 2004.  Deeply symbolic and sometimes impenetrable, these four long-poems were the birthplace of his symbolic vocabulary.  Casting himself in these poems as both a visionary and a romantic, he explored the dark-side of his sexuality as well as vulnerable memories.  Though partly confessional, the zines were also a reflection of the political and social climate in NYC at the turn of the century.  Despite the post-modern aspect, this body of work exhibits a reverence of traditional verse poetry and bridges uncommonly diverse vocabularies.  Certain sections found Green devoted exclusively to lists of one-liners.  In fact, some parts of Adam Green Magazine could now be said to read like a long list of “tweets.”

In 2005, the German publishing house Suhrkamp Verlag translated the texts and published a bilingual edition of “Adam Green Magazine” which was inclusive of all 4 issues (purchase HERE).  It sold over 10,000 copies and was perhaps the most controversial and polarizing poetry book published in Europe that year.

Of the book Green stated, “I want to write “On The Road” for my generation, it’s called “Stay At Home.”

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MAGNET MAGAZINE
Adam was asked to be the guest editor for Magnet Magazine’s March 2010 issue. He wrote eleven enthusiastic blurbs lampooning a variety of subjects.

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THE COURT JESTER (unfinished)
The Court Jester is an unfinished work of fiction that Adam began writing in 2007.  Set in a Medieval-Fantasy world, this stream-of-consciousness novel attempted to tell the story of an “Iggy Pop-like” Court Jester who was both seduced and held captive by a radiant Princess. The landscape was also populated by various mythical creatures, a rebel army and an island of prostitutes.  Desiring to express this vast but discordant inner-world, Green prematurely submitted the manuscript to his publisher Suhrkamp Verlag and it was rejected.  Although scrapping the novel entirely, Green resurrected much of the dialogue in his film “The Wrong Ferarri”