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@bd_echobro 9/26/26 @outlinefest via @knockdowncenter
Hear more 👉 https://black-dice.bandcamp.com
#blackdice #ericcopeland #bjorncopeland #aaronwarren #outlinefest
26 Sep 2026
Masonic Distortions: Grid Drip. Drawing. 18x24".
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#esl__books #blackdice #ericcopeland #drawing #masonicdistortions
15 Sep 2026
Reads-In: Piggy backing on yesterday’s Tom Phillips post, up in the shop and through our web-store the latest from Eric Copeland, a new art book/project titled _Demon Portraits_ (ESL Books)! A pandemic project that didn’t involve a job change (so many record stores and online retailers have popped up, demon-style, since 2020 [sigh]).
Like his musical output over the last 30 years (see Black Dice, under his own name, collaborations with others) Eric Copeland totally committed to this project. And as his method spells out, there are conceptual, formal and process based links between his musical approach and this new arm of his visual art.
_Demon Portraits_ takes its form from four copies of Aldous Huxley’s _Brave New World_. Using these four copies, Copeland cut out individual letters and groups of letters and pasted them over the existing narrative, incorporating select letters into every word and using #whiteout to obscure others — a #mobydick like pursuit that took more than 11,000 hours of labor, well over three years of work. Everyone’s sense of time and place changed during the pandemic, but nothing on this scale.
Copeland describes his process this way: “Every word required many minutes (at least) of work: to analyze what letters Huxley had provided, decide the word(s) that worked within my confines, find each letter, then cut and paste it into form.”
Tom Phillips’s _A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel_ (1970-2016) involved a similar method, but to very different ends. Copeland’s art book has been compared to #frankenstein
Copeland describes how Huxley’s writing informed, guided, and also restricted his word choices, forcing an improvised (free?) and hyper limited relation between his “demon” text and Huxley’s OG: “I feel this textual tension and its resolution is the vague ‘narrative’ of _Demon Portraits_. I could never rely on being able to write what I wanted. I had to go with it. And it got weird. But it all went somewhere.”
Can’t beat our price either, as we bought direct from the artist! Have at it, folks. Check the slides and see our site.
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@bd_echobro
13 Jul 2026
This one has been a long time coming. I'm incredibly proud to release this into the world in collaboration with Sebastian at Dem Passwords @dempasswords . After three and a half years of creation, he and I have been working on and off for three years to get this thing printed. Couldn't be happier, well worth the wait. Thank you as well to Rob @seenstudio , Tran @tran111h , Rachel and Erik @secretprojecthappyflowers2 @erikzajaceskowski , David @milosyard , Bjorn @bjorn_copeland , Aarbo @flaccmo @bd_echobro , and Liat @liyacht . See below for description and ordering info. Get 2, you'll want to read with a friend!
Order today at www.dempasswords.com, or grab in person this Thurs-Sun (May 7-10) at @printedmatterinc's 2026 LA Art Book Fair via @desiredfx_.
Coming soon to finer book stores everywhere!
From the back cover description:
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Demon Portraits is a Frankenstein's monster of a book -a letter-by-letter, cut-and-paste masterwork written on top of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Working from four identical trade paperback copies, Copeland cut out individual letters and groups of letters from Huxley's text and pasted them over the existing narrative, incorporating select letters into every word and using correction fluid to obscure others a feat of strength that required more than 11,000 hours of labor over three and a half years of production.
Describing his process, Copeland said, "Every word required many minutes (at least) of work: to analyze what letters Huxley had provided, decide the word(s) that worked within my confines, find each letter, then cut and paste it into form." Huxley's writing ultimately informed, guided, and restricted word choice, forcing an improvised, woven interaction between the texts. Copeland continued, "I feel this textual tension and its resolution is the vague 'narrative' of Demon Portraits. 1 could never rely on being able to write what I wanted. I had to go with it. And it got weird. But it all went somewhere."The result lands somewhere between poetry and prose, rhyming with Copeland's equally monastic work as a visual artist and his more public-facing output as a member of, among other bands, Black Dice.
07 May 2026
Friday, December 12, 2025
8pm (Doors at 7:30)
222 Bowery, NYC
$20
🎫 link in bio!
(Cheaper for members)
In the immediate aftermath of September 11, Swiss artist Georg Gatsas (@georggatsas) moved to New York City. In September of 2025, Caterina Barbieri’s label light-years released The Process, a book of Georg’s photographs from 2002–2007.
To celebrate the release of The Process, Georg has asked three of his favorite performers, Eric Copeland (@esl__books), Geologist (@geobriensystem), and Vorhees (@vorheesmusic)—people whose work he first encountered in the years of the book—to play solo sets.
His friend Ethan Swan (@ethanswan) 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.
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?”
— Ethan Swan
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.
02 Dec 2025
Rare live gig! EARLY-- 4pm on Sunday September 14 at Pioneer Works @pioneerworks. Playing in installation by amigo @norauls . Come Out Come Out, no creeps. Free!
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#ericcopeland #blackdice #pioneerworks #rauldenieves
12 Sep 2025
Studio move, archive finds... All years forgotten.
1. How To Solve Your People Problems, collage text. Released by @layout_press @seenstudio .
2. Shit Talk. Collection of YouTube comments about Black Dice @bd_echobro . ESL release.
3. Loaded Slogan. Every tshirt text i saw for a year. ESL release.
4. C n B Palma. The first ESL release, an early collection of penis graffiti photos.
5. Pidgin Coup. First long-form collage text book. Released by @mikemimoun .
6. Cover image for Brungst by Birgit Munch, released by @eschoescho .
7. Low Hanging Fruit, complete collection of Spanish penis graffiti photos (a few copies still available, DM if interested).
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#ericcopeland #esl_books #esl__books #blackdice #escho #lowhangingfruit #shittalk #loadedslogan #birgitmunch #pidgincoup #stealyourface #layoutpress
01 Jul 2025
Doodle Gang. 11x14". Decadry on paper.
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#esl__books #esl_books #ericcopeland #blackdice #decadry #opart #doodlegang #stealyourface
24 Jun 2025
Masonic Distortions: Skull Fuckery. Drawing. 18x24".
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15 Jun 2025
Please join Starr Suites Friday June 6, 6-8pm, for the opening of >>
Eric Copeland/ Jaiko Suzuki
June 6 - July 6, 2025
@esl__books @jaisuki
See you then, friends ✨
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Jaiko Suzuki
Infatuation, 2024
Color pencil on vintage washi paper
27 x 21 inches
281 Starr St 1R, Brooklyn (blue door)
28 May 2025
In two weeks: Please join Starr Suites Friday June 6, 6-8pm, for the opening of >>
Eric Copeland/ Jaiko Suzuki
June 6 - July 6, 2025
@esl__books @jaisuki
See you then, friends ✨
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Eric Copeland
Flusher, 2024
DecaDry on paper
14 x 11 inches
281 Starr St 1R, Brooklyn (blue door)
23 May 2025
Masonic Distortions: Black and White Cat Black and White Cake. Drawing. 18x24".
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#ericcopeland #esl__books #esl_books #drawing #blackdice #masonicdistortions #opart #stealyourface #thesentinel #blackandwhitecatblackandwhitecake
04 Mar 2025
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