If you like fake blood, zombies, and naked guys, you're going to love Untitled Hardcore Zombie Project, a solo exhibition by famed indie artist/filmmaker/provocateur Bruce LaBruce, which opens with a peformance at Peres Projects in LA on 05.23.09 and runs through 06.27.09.

LaBruce's most recent film project, Otto; Or, Up With Dead People, which premiered at the Sundance and Berlin film festivals, and went on to be shown at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) and other prominent venues around the world, introduced the public to a new genre in the already-expansive vocabulary of LaBruce: horror.

Since the late 1980s, LaBruce has worked in a variety of media, including artist publications, photography, film and cinematography. With his latest project, Untitled Hardcore Zombie Project, which will include a new performance at the opening reception, LaBruce has marked a path to uncharted territory. In his own words:

Zombies and porn. What a beautiful combination. I have been dealing in both genres since the early nineties when I made No Skin Off My Ass, my first sexually explicit feature film, and co-starred in my friend Candy's short film Interview with a Zombie, in which I played a gay member of the undead. Against all professional advice, I've been making porn movies ever since, albeit reluctantly. (I'm not a particularly avid consumer of porn, and I don't follow the industry; not unpretentiously, I consider myself not so much a pornographer as an artist who works in porn.)

Read the full press release here and check out La Bruce's bio here.

If you're in LA, you won't want to miss this one. Don't forget to check out La Bruce's Wiki entry and his official site to get more info, images, and to check out LaBruce's blog. I'm sure the opening will be full of the coolest people in LA. I'd love to be there, but unfortunately just got back from SF and don't have time to go back just yet.

Untitled Hardcore Zombie ProjectBruce LaBruce
05.23 – 06.27.09
Opening Reception: Saturday, 05.23.09, 6 – 9 pm
Performance at 8:30 pm