Exhibition Proposal

Mountain of the Cannibal God/Goddess!

This promises to be a multi-faceted show, celebrating Sergio Martino’s 1978 classic, Mountain of The Cannibal God, starring the beautiful Ursula Andress.

Accompanied by an 80’s synth soundtrack, two aspiring white artists (Simon Ould and Liam Scully) and a gorgeous blonde/supermodel (yet to be announced) journey into the dark and difficult terrain of Papa New Guinea, hoping to find truth. The destination is a mountain that imposes itself on the lush landscape. The cannibal natives say the mountain is cursed and guard it with their lives; the difficulty will be avoiding these savages and making it to the top.

MOCG questions where savagery lies. White explorers exploiting natives for their resourses, or natives with their cannibalistic practices? Simon and Liam use the movie as a metaphor to question where exploitation resides in our contemporary creative landscape. Everyone wants to see Ursula Andress undressed. She gets paid. The people who pay their money are the stupid young people who give a lot of money to Oxfam. Half the Oxfam money goes to the wealthy young white people. Diamonds and pearls and platform shoes in the jungle, that’s the power of it. Let’s give it to Ingrid tonight. It’s a good jungle of thought. It’s something to go on. Shall we change the font to jungle font? This looks like it’s from the Foreign Office. Stop.

Expect Mountain of the Cannibal God/ Goddess to serve up a show of, sex, death, fashion, masks, bamboo, affordable art, jewellery, Goldman Sachs, weapons, politics, Terry Richardson, nudity, midgets, cannibalism, cardboard, Prada, Simon Cowell, Cheryl Cole, rotting flesh, cutlasses, optimistic synth soundtracks, POP, PCP, Gaffa tape, Vogue, I.D., Dazed and Confused, crystal maze, man traps, and much more…