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In this edition of Before Drones we look to the American epicenter of the pandemic: New York City. John Miller staged his first solo exhibition in 1982 at Artists Space and has since been a critical voice in the city’s artistic and discursive goings-on within the increasingly commercialized art world of the Reagan era and its politization within the «culture wars» that followed. In his multidisciplinary practice, Miller remodels the spiritual and material highs and lows and very lowest the «American Dream» has on offer, resulting in works where the fetishistic meets with analytical documentation. John Millers exhibition An Elixir of Immortality will open at the Schinkel Pavilion in Berlin on June 6 2020.

John Miller

John Miller is an artist, musician, writer and educator based in New York where he is teaching at Barnard College, Columbia University. Edited volumes of his writing include The Price Club – Selected writings (1977-1998), 2000, When Down Is Up. Ausgewählte Schriften 1987-1999, 2001 and The Ruin of Exchange, 2012. His monograph Mike Kelley: Educational Complex was published by Afterall in 2015. Miller’s survey exhibition was held at the ICA Miami in 2016 and his work has recently been shown at Metro Pictures (2020) and at Galerie Barbara Weiss and Meyer Riegger (2019).