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White Cubicle Toilet Gallery
The George and Dragon Public House
2 Hackney Road, London E2

Press Release
TERENCE KOH
The Temple of the Golden Piss
Opening Saturday October 22, 2005. 6:00 PM to 11:00 PM

The George and Dragon Public House is very pleased to present the first London solo exhibition of Terence Koh entitled The Temple of the Golden Piss.

For his exhibition Koh will transform the George and Dragon’s toilet into a small temple for the reconciliation of spiritual and corporal pleasures. A dionysiac celebration of religion and sensuality examining the relationship between release and illumination, the Golden Temple offers the possibility of mystical enlightenment through the discharge of showers of golden liquid, the same amber fluid that is consumed in venerable quantities at the George and Dragon.

Terence Koh's work (sculptures, installations, performances and artist books) address the beauty and sublime transcendence of emptiness, the intertwining of all realms of life and death, and the constellations of dark and golden matter that create the isolate worlds in which we live.

Terence Koh (the artist formerly known as Asian Punk Boy) was born in Guangdong, China in 1978, he lives and works between Toronto, New York, Okinawa, and Los Angeles. Recent solo exhibitions include: Mein Tod Mein Tod where he staged his death at Peres Projects, Berlin; Gone, Yet Still at the Secession, Vienna; The Voyage of Lady Midnight Snowdrops Through Double Star Death at Peres Projects, Los Angeles. Group exhibitions include the 2004 Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and The Black Album at Maureen Paley, London.
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The White Cubicle Toilet Gallery measures 1.40 by 1.40 metres, is located within the Ladies Toilet of the George and Dragon, and works with no budget, staff or boundaries. White Cubicle has become one of the East End’s most exciting and ambitious exhibition spaces, presenting a discerning programme of international manifestations as an antidote to London art world’s post-romantic art scene.