To celebrate the end of Rich Bott’s artist residency and his departure from Zurich message salon embassy is presenting the new Zine Nr. 6, Rich Bott – Geissengeist Gelassenheit. For six weeks the Angeleno artist was hosted by message salon embassy at the 25hours hotel on Langstrasse. Zurich graphic designer Benjamin Sommerhalder fashioned a zine from a cornucopia of drawings, collages and texts documenting Rich Bott’s observations about and impressions of, Zurich. This zine will appear in a limited edition of 100 copies. The vernissage of the publication will be complemented by a video screening on the hotel TV, followed by a discussion between Bott and the film theorist Marcy Goldberg about VHS-video art, American media and pop culture, Zurich and Los Angeles, the Californian life style, surfing, “Geissengeist” and the Zurich open air pool Oberer Letten.
6-10 pm: Zine release Geissengeist Gelassenheit
at hotel suite 724, 7th floor, 25hours Hotel Langstrasse
7-8 pm: artist video screening on a hotel TV:
Directed by Ariel Pink with Animal Charm (Rich Bott & Jim Fetterley):
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Witchhunt Suite for WWIII , USA 2011
followed by artist Rich Bott (Los Angeles) in conversation with film scholar Marcy Goldberg
DJ Dick Bott and Madame l’Ambassadeur playing 7-inch vinyl records
before and after drinks on the terrasse
Geissengeist Gelassenheit
Rich Bott
message salon embassy
Zine #6 – Edition of 100 Copies
36 p., b/w
© 2017 Rich Bott & message salon
message salon embassy
25hours Hotel Langstrasse
Langstrasse150, Zürich