deadtech

Haruspex - a solo show by Matt Steinke
May 11 - June 12 2007

Deadtech presented new work by Matt Steinke in an installation entitled Haruspex.

Starting with the historical role of the haruspex as an interpreter of the mysterious will of the gods through study of sheep livers and entrails, Steinke looks at attempts to divine meaning from the unknowable natural world through analysis and acquisition. His attention is on the ambiguous realm of the neglected, intangible and forgotten, artifacts from ancient and contemporary worlds.

Matt Steinke is an artist living in New York. He attended Evergreen College and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. With an inventive and irreverent handling, Steinke works with familiar technological devices to create automatons and installations that are self-effacing, bizarre, disorienting and highly sympathetic. This is his first show at Deadtech.