GX Jupitter-Larsen (sometimes erroneously spelled
Juppiter-Larsen) is an artist, based in
Hollywood, CaliforniaHollywood is a district in Los Angeles, California, United States, situated west-northwest of Downtown Los Angeles. Due to its fame and cultural identity as the historical center of movie studios and movie stars, the word "Hollywood" is often used as a metonymy of American cinema...
, who's been active in a number of
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scenes since the late 1970s. Jupitter-Larsen has been involved in
punk rockPunk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...
,
mail artMail art is art which uses the postal system as a medium. The term mail art can refer to an individual message, the medium through which it is sent, or an artistic genre...
,
cassette cultureCassette culture refers to the trading of home-made audio cassettes, usually of rock or alternative music. The culture was in part an offshoot of the mail art movement of the 1970s and 1980s. In both the United States and the United Kingdom, it owed a lot to the DIY ethic of punk...
, the noise music scene, and
zine cultureA fanzine is a nonprofessional and nonofficial publication produced by fans of a particular cultural phenomenon for the pleasure of others who share their interest...
. During the 1990s he was the
sound designSound design is a conceptually creative/technical field. It covers all non-compositional elements of a film, a play, a music performance or recording, computer game software or any other multimedia project...
er for the performances of
Mark PaulineMark Pauline is an American performance artist and inventor, best known as founder and director of Survival Research Labs....
's
Survival Research LaboratoriesSurvival Research Laboratories is a machine performance art group credited for pioneering the genre of large scale machine performance. After about 30 years in San Francisco, California, SRL spent most of 2008 moving 160 tons of choice machines, tools, robots, and paraphernalia and is now...
. His best known work's as the founder of the noise act
The HatersThe Haters are a noise music and conceptual art troupe from the United States. Founded in 1979, they are one of the earliest and best-known acts in the modern noise scene...
, who've performed all over the world, and appear on over 300 CD & record releases.
Underlying all of Jupitter-Larsen's work's a peculiar mix of aesthetic and conceptual obsessions, particularly entropy and decay,
professional wrestlingProfessional wrestling, or pro wrestling, is an athletic performing art where matches are prearranged by the promotion's booking staff. It is a non-competitive sport which contains strong elements of theatre, mock combat, and catch wrestling. Wrestling's origins date to 19th-century carnival...
, and a self-created lexicon consisting mainly of personalized
units of measurementA measurement unit is a scalar quantity, defined and adopted by convention, with which any other quantity of the same kind can be compared to express the ratio of the two quantities as a number....
such as polywave, the totimorphous, and the xylowave.
GX Jupitter-Larsen (sometimes erroneously spelled
Juppiter-Larsen) is an artist, based in
Hollywood, CaliforniaHollywood is a district in Los Angeles, California, United States, situated west-northwest of Downtown Los Angeles. Due to its fame and cultural identity as the historical center of movie studios and movie stars, the word "Hollywood" is often used as a metonymy of American cinema...
, who's been active in a number of
underground artUnderground art, as with underground music, is a term used to describe art forms that have developed a cult following, independent of commercial success. This term is usually delegated to art forms such as graffiti, or art styles, or art work in general that have a following in "the scene"....
scenes since the late 1970s. Jupitter-Larsen has been involved in
punk rockPunk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...
,
mail artMail art is art which uses the postal system as a medium. The term mail art can refer to an individual message, the medium through which it is sent, or an artistic genre...
,
cassette cultureCassette culture refers to the trading of home-made audio cassettes, usually of rock or alternative music. The culture was in part an offshoot of the mail art movement of the 1970s and 1980s. In both the United States and the United Kingdom, it owed a lot to the DIY ethic of punk...
, the noise music scene, and
zine cultureA fanzine is a nonprofessional and nonofficial publication produced by fans of a particular cultural phenomenon for the pleasure of others who share their interest...
. During the 1990s he was the
sound designSound design is a conceptually creative/technical field. It covers all non-compositional elements of a film, a play, a music performance or recording, computer game software or any other multimedia project...
er for the performances of
Mark PaulineMark Pauline is an American performance artist and inventor, best known as founder and director of Survival Research Labs....
's
Survival Research LaboratoriesSurvival Research Laboratories is a machine performance art group credited for pioneering the genre of large scale machine performance. After about 30 years in San Francisco, California, SRL spent most of 2008 moving 160 tons of choice machines, tools, robots, and paraphernalia and is now...
. His best known work's as the founder of the noise act
The HatersThe Haters are a noise music and conceptual art troupe from the United States. Founded in 1979, they are one of the earliest and best-known acts in the modern noise scene...
, who've performed all over the world, and appear on over 300 CD & record releases.
As a conceptual artist
Underlying all of Jupitter-Larsen's work's a peculiar mix of aesthetic and conceptual obsessions, particularly entropy and decay,
professional wrestlingProfessional wrestling, or pro wrestling, is an athletic performing art where matches are prearranged by the promotion's booking staff. It is a non-competitive sport which contains strong elements of theatre, mock combat, and catch wrestling. Wrestling's origins date to 19th-century carnival...
, and a self-created lexicon consisting mainly of personalized
units of measurementA measurement unit is a scalar quantity, defined and adopted by convention, with which any other quantity of the same kind can be compared to express the ratio of the two quantities as a number....
such as polywave, the totimorphous, and the xylowave. In 1985, Jupitter-Larsen invented his own number system. Jupitter-Larsen says his transexpansion numeral unit (TNU) explore the distance & separateness in between linear counting locations that do not neighbor each other. When arranged in order, the TNUs form a spiral around the standard linear numbers. If one assumes that each individual linear number is a particular location along a counting order, then each individual TNU would be the distance between two selected linear number locations. Where the TNUs have been placed is unimportant. What is important is that anyone can make up their own personal numbers to symbolize any numeral interrelationship that Jupitter-Larsen's do not. Instead of a way of doing arithmetic, what you end up with here is an emotional & philosophical barometer. The base TNU is I (pronounced a) which is located in between 1&4 but not 2&3.
As a performance artist
In an article entitled "30 Years of the Haters" which appears in the premiere issue of the magazine
As Loud as Possible a number of early performances by Jupitter-Larsen are listed. In most of these performances, enacted during the 1980s and 90s, whole audiences were led by inside agitators to actually ruin or destroy the venues that the performances were taking place.
However a number of Jupitter-Larsen
performance artPerformance art is art in which the actions of an individual or a group at a particular place and in a particular time constitute the work. It can happen anywhere, at any time, or for any length of time. Performance art can be any situation that involves four basic elements: time, space, the...
events that are mentioned in numerous issues of the 1980s mail art zine
KS are often non-confrontational projects. Such as the artist counting
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while walking down a street by himself.
As a video artist & filmmaker
From 1982 to 1986, he submitted a black
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entitled Blank Banner to over forty video festivals. It was screened in nine. In 1994, using an all female cast, Jupitter-Larsen produced a short lesbian vampire film entitled "Holes On The Neck". The film's narrative is of a group of vampires who work and play on their garlic farm. Their human lovers desire to become vampires themselves, and so lure these garlic farmers into initiating them. In 2009, Jupitter-Larsen started production of a feature length movie with the working title "A Noisy Delivery". It is said to be about a post office where time has stopped working.
As a writer
There are three published novels written by Jupitter-Larsen.
Raw Red and The Condor was published by Blood Print Press in 1992.
Sometimes Never and
Adventure on The High Seas were both published in 2009 by Crossing Chaos. These novels are without chapters. Instead, Jupitter-larsen uses passages of random letters to represent nothingness, sections of entirely self-invented words to represent the spiritual, and regular words to represent the physical.A book of French translations of his essays and
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, entitled
Saccages has also been published by LUFF/Rip on/off. Vincent Barras, who has translated
John CageJohn Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer, philosopher, poet, music theorist, artist, printmaker, and amateur mycologist and mushroom collector. A pioneer of chance music, electronic music and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war...
's
Silence into French, wrote one of the book's introductions.
As a radio performer
According to Experimental Sound & Radio,
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, 2001, since 1983, Jupitter-Larsen had performed over 3500 hours of
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art on 31 different stations in 11 countries.
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