GEORG GATSAS
BOOKS
ERIC COPELAND, GEOLOGIST, AND VORHEES
BOOKS
ERIC COPELAND, GEOLOGIST, AND VORHEES
Friday,
December 12, 2025
7:30
Doors
8pm
Show
Limited capacity, a few standby tickets may become available at the door
December 12, 2025
7:30
Doors
8pm
Show
Limited capacity, a few standby tickets may become available at the door
In the immediate aftermath of September 11, Swiss artist Georg Gatsas moved to New York City. His friend Ethan Swan tells his story:
He’d met Ira Cohen at a lecture in St. Gallen the year prior and formed a connection so immediate that the poet offered the use of his couch for as long as Georg liked.
But the city that Georg found was not the city of that invitation—people were suspicious, bunkered, craving comfort and avoiding implications. Most of them were, anyway. There were others who saw this desolation as an opportunity. They held shows in abandoned buildings, commandeered the empty bars, made work that cut, crashed, and overwhelmed.
Georg followed the threads of this other New York, taking photographs all the time. Some of his pictures were of the haunted, empty streets. Or the abandoned objects, shuttered buildings, wild cats. The heaps of trash that were the only signal that someone must be alive in those buildings.
But mostly he took pictures of the people making this other world. Genesis P-Orridge and Kembra Pfahler and Stephonik Youth. Artists and musicians and weirdoes. Black Dice. Animal Collective. Gang Gang Dance.
He’d met Ira Cohen at a lecture in St. Gallen the year prior and formed a connection so immediate that the poet offered the use of his couch for as long as Georg liked.
But the city that Georg found was not the city of that invitation—people were suspicious, bunkered, craving comfort and avoiding implications. Most of them were, anyway. There were others who saw this desolation as an opportunity. They held shows in abandoned buildings, commandeered the empty bars, made work that cut, crashed, and overwhelmed.
Georg followed the threads of this other New York, taking photographs all the time. Some of his pictures were of the haunted, empty streets. Or the abandoned objects, shuttered buildings, wild cats. The heaps of trash that were the only signal that someone must be alive in those buildings.
But mostly he took pictures of the people making this other world. Genesis P-Orridge and Kembra Pfahler and Stephonik Youth. Artists and musicians and weirdoes. Black Dice. Animal Collective. Gang Gang Dance.
In September of 2025, Caterina Barbieri’s label light-years released The Process, a book of Georg’s photographs from 2002–2007. Assembling the book raised a lot of questions for Georg about those years, and just as many about the present day. What has changed in the last twenty years? What habits persist? Where are the gaps now and how can they be weaponized?
This event is made possible with the friendly support of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation and the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York.
— Ethan SwanTo address these questions, and to celebrate the release of The Process, Georg has asked three of his favorite performers, Eric Copeland, Geologist, and Vorhees—people whose work he first encountered in the years of the book—to play solo sets.
This event is made possible with the friendly support of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation and the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York.
Spread from Georg Gatsas, The Process (light-years, 2025)
Georg Gatsas is of Greek-Swiss extraction and grew up in the canton of St. Gallen. Having taught himself photography, he began taking pictures of New York’s underground music scene during an extended stay in 2002. He has held solo and two-person exhibitions at JUBG, Cologne (2022), Kunstmuseum St.Gallen (2017), Kunstraum Riehen (2013), James Fuentes, New York (2008), the Swiss Institute, New York (2007), and elsewhere. His work has appeared in The Wire, zweikommasieben, and ANP Quarterly, and monographs have been published by Nieves (Switzerland) and Loose Joints (France and UK). His new book, The Process, is recently out on light-years (2025).
Eric Copeland is a prolific musician and visual artist best known as a core member of the band Black Dice. Recent releases include Spiral Stairs (Les albums Claus), a collaborative LP with Gang Gang Dance’s Josh Diamond, Riders on the Storm (Post Present Medium, 2022), and Dumb it Down (PPM, 2020). With Animal Collective’s Avey Tare, he is half of the duo Terrestrial Tones.
Eric Copeland is a prolific musician and visual artist best known as a core member of the band Black Dice. Recent releases include Spiral Stairs (Les albums Claus), a collaborative LP with Gang Gang Dance’s Josh Diamond, Riders on the Storm (Post Present Medium, 2022), and Dumb it Down (PPM, 2020). With Animal Collective’s Avey Tare, he is half of the duo Terrestrial Tones.
Brian Weitz, also known by his stage name Geologist, is a musician best known as a member of the experimental pop group Animal Collective. He recently released the collaborative LP A Shaw Deal (Drag City, 2025) with his friend Sleepy Doug Shaw, and also plays in the DMV-based trio Motherfuckers JMB & Co, which released their debut album, Music Excitement Action Beauty (Via Parigi, 2025). His new album, Can I Get a Pack of Camel Lights? is due on Drag City in January, 2026.
Dana Wachs is a Brooklyn-based composer and audio engineer who performs under the name Vorhees. As an audio engineer, she’s toured with Animal Collective, St. Vincent, Jon Hopkins, and MGMT, and others. As a solo musician, she’s toured with Anna Meredith, Matmos, Josef Van Wissem, Beth Orton, Cat Power, and Deerhunter, and composed for the artist Matthew Barney, fashion designer Rachel Comey, and written numerous film scores. Vorhees debut EP, Black Horse Pike, was released in 2016 via Styles Upon Styles.
Dana Wachs is a Brooklyn-based composer and audio engineer who performs under the name Vorhees. As an audio engineer, she’s toured with Animal Collective, St. Vincent, Jon Hopkins, and MGMT, and others. As a solo musician, she’s toured with Anna Meredith, Matmos, Josef Van Wissem, Beth Orton, Cat Power, and Deerhunter, and composed for the artist Matthew Barney, fashion designer Rachel Comey, and written numerous film scores. Vorhees debut EP, Black Horse Pike, was released in 2016 via Styles Upon Styles.
Due to the age and character of the building, the space is not optimized for ADA accessibility and is located up a single flight of 20 stairs with handrails. If you have questions about access, please contact us in advance of the event, and we will make every effort to accommodate you.
