Project Room: Love Injection / Paul Raffaele and Barbie Bertisch

March 18–April 22, 2017
A vitrine display table containing various printed ephemera. On the wall beside it are three long lists of contributors’ names.

Love Injection, installation view, 2017

Selections from the monthly zine published by Vinyl Mania staff installed on two adjacent walls. The right wall is covered from top to bottom with spreads from the zine.

Love Injection, installation view, 2017

Selections from the monthly zine published by Vinyl Mania staff installed on two adjacent walls. In the foreground, a vitrine display table containing various printed ephemera is visible.

Love Injection, installation view, 2017

Selections from the monthly zine published by Vinyl Mania staff installed on three adjacent walls. The back and right walls are covered from top to bottom with spreads from the zine.

Love Injection, installation view, 2017

Love Injection, installation view, 2017

Press Release

White Columns is pleased to present ‘Love Injection’: A Modern Dance Music Fanzine, an exhibition organized by the New York-based DJs, writers, publishers, and broadcasters Paul Raffaele and Barbie Bertisch.

The exhibition consists of three related elements: 1) a two-wall, mural-scale display of select pages and spreads from the first 24 issues of ‘Love Injection’ fanzine, accompanied by a ‘hall of fame’-style list of all of the contributors to ‘Love Injection’ to date; 2) a display of vintage materials and printed ephemera relating to the legendary New York club the Paradise Garage (1977-1987); and 3) a display of spreads from ‘Vinyl Maniac’, the little-known mid-1980s in-house magazine of New York’s Vinyl Mania (1978-2007), arguably the most important dance music record store of all time.

All ‘Vinyl Maniac’ zines and Paradise Garage ephemera are on loan from a collection preserved by Judy Russell (co-founder of Nu Groove Records) courtesy of Ben Goldfarb & Love Bertilsson.

Launched in February 2015 by Paul Raffaele, ‘Love Injection’ is a labor-of-love, monthly print fanzine distributed free via a network of independent record stores nationally and internationally (and also available electronically as a PDF to download online).  Now co-edited by Paul & Barbie, ‘Love Injection’ has quickly established itself as a critical platform for celebrating the constantly shifting cultures of dance music. Featuring in-depth interviews with DJs, musicians, artists, and promoters; profiles on record labels, record stores, and nightclubs; alongside record reviews and DJ charts, ‘Love Injection’ is an essential monthly read for anyone interested in dance music and dance-floor culture in all its manifestations, past and present. In a 2016 piece on ‘Love Injection’ published at insomniac.com, writer Kevin Camps – adroitly – suggested that: “Love Injection is The New Yorker of the electronic music world.”

‘Love Injection’ recently celebrated its second anniversary with a box-set edition of the first 24 issues published to date, and they will launch their 25th issue to coincide with the exhibition at White Columns.

To learn more about ‘Love Injection’ or to subscribe (to online or print editions) visit: http://loveinjection.nyc

White Columns would like to thank Paul Raffaele and Barbie Bertisch for their enthusiasm and commitment to this project. We would also like to thank Ben Goldfarb & Love Bertilsson for the generous loan of the Paradise Garage and ‘Vinyl Maniac’ materials.

For further information about this exhibition contact: info@whitecolumns.org

Gallery hours: Tuesday – Saturday / Noon – 6pm.

White Columns
320 West 13th Street
New York NY 10014
212-924-4212
www.whitecolumns.org

A vitrine display table containing various printed ephemera. On the wall beside it are three long lists of contributors’ names.
Selections from the monthly zine published by Vinyl Mania staff installed on two adjacent walls. The right wall is covered from top to bottom with spreads from the zine.
Selections from the monthly zine published by Vinyl Mania staff installed on two adjacent walls. In the foreground, a vitrine display table containing various printed ephemera is visible.
Selections from the monthly zine published by Vinyl Mania staff installed on three adjacent walls. The back and right walls are covered from top to bottom with spreads from the zine.

Love Injection, installation view, 2017 (A vitrine display table containing various printed ephemera. On the wall beside it are three long lists of contributors’ names.)

Love Injection, installation view, 2017 (Selections from the monthly zine published by Vinyl Mania staff installed on two adjacent walls. The right wall is covered from top to bottom with spreads from the zine.)

Love Injection, installation view, 2017 (Selections from the monthly zine published by Vinyl Mania staff installed on two adjacent walls. In the foreground, a vitrine display table containing various printed ephemera is visible.)

Love Injection, installation view, 2017 (Selections from the monthly zine published by Vinyl Mania staff installed on three adjacent walls. The back and right walls are covered from top to bottom with spreads from the zine.)

Love Injection, installation view, 2017 (Overhead view of printed ephemera inside a vitrine display table, including various pamphlets, drawings, invitations and photographs.)