Mind Flaying Flavored Flails is a duo exhibition created by Nathan Harper and Babak Ahteshamipour for Babak’s album of the same title. The exhibition features five installations set on a garden ship in space exploring themes regarding climate crisis and technocracy by appropriating pop culture and video game references. The installations are built around each track of the album which play respectively at each installation. Babak’s presence in the installations is highlighted with paintings of nonhuman beings, World of Warcraft spell icons and a black hole on which Skeletor is banishing a ghoul from the Warcraft franchise. In conversation with these are Nathan’s dirt sheet prints and paintings, printed with dirt pigment which are presented as preserved organic artifacts. Additionally Nathan’s Tesla Trucks have been sucked in the alien terrain and he presents the logo from the death metal band Death as a fossilized piece of organic artifact.
