This Thursday, Deitch opens a show called Black Acid Co-op -- a series of installations addressing the notiong of counter and drug culture in urban America -- at its Wooster Street space.

Black Acid Co-op is the third collaborative project of Justin Lowe and Jonah Freeman. Their first installation Hello Meth Lab In The Sun (with Alexandre Singh), commissioned by Ballroom Marfa, consisted of a labyrinthine assemblage of rooms, hallways, closets and observation platforms. A variation entitled Hello Meth Lab With A View then traveled to Miami, where it was installed in a duplex apartment. Their new piece continues the themes of previous versions specifically that of alchemy in a modern context and community, ritual and psychosis.

Black Acid Co-Op is the moniker for a counter-culture enclave embedded in the metropolis. In this incarnation, the artists shift the focus from the production of illegal drugs to sites of sub-cultural groups and how they are situated in the larger urban environment.

Like the dioramas of the Museum of Natural History, Black Acid Co-op creates theatrical depictions of several specific environments: the clandestine drug lab, the drop-out commune, the Chinatown bazaar, the museums of cultural preservation, the university library, the pirate radio station and several interstitial industrial sites such as hallways and waiting rooms.

Read the full press release here. While you are it -- especially if you haven't been out to Deitch's LIC space -- check out the summer long show on through 08.09.09 entitled Pig that has work by Jeff Koons, Jim Drain, Paul Chan, and Gelatin and performances, talks, and other related events throughout the summer. Read more here.

Black Acid Co-op
Justin Lowe and Jonah Freeman
Deitch (Wooster Street)
07.02 - 08.15.09