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Social Resurrection Task-Prints
Social Resurrection Task-Prints

“Social Resurrection Task Prints.” Digital photographic prints with paint, cotton and ash hanging on clotheslines, by Tish Turl and Adam Turl (2021).

Social Resurrection Task-Prints
Social Resurrection Task-Prints

“Social Resurrection Task Prints.” Digital photographic prints with paint, cotton and ash hanging on clotheslines, by Tish Turl and Adam Turl (2021).

Social Resurrection Task-Prints
Social Resurrection Task-Prints

“Social Resurrection Task Prints.” Digital photographic prints with paint, cotton and ash hanging on clotheslines, by Tish Turl and Adam Turl (2021).

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Big Muddy Monster Atlas Project
Big Muddy Monster Atlas Project

Irrealist Psycho-Geography in southern Illinois (2021).

Big Muddy Monster Atlas Project
Big Muddy Monster Atlas Project

Irrealist Psycho-Geography in southern Illinois (2021).

Big Muddy Monster Atlas Project
Big Muddy Monster Atlas Project

Irrealist Psycho-Geography in southern Illinois (2021).

Big Muddy Monster Atlas Project
Big Muddy Monster Atlas Project

Irrealist Psycho-Geography in southern Illinois (2021).

Big Muddy Muddy Monster Atlas Project
Big Muddy Muddy Monster Atlas Project

Irrealist Psycho-Geography in southern Illinois.

Big Muddy Monster Atlas Project
Big Muddy Monster Atlas Project

Irrealist Psycho-Geography in southern Illinois.

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Grand Saline Piney Woods Encampment, part 1
Grand Saline Piney Woods Encampment, part 1

“Grand Saline Piney Woods Encampment, part 1” painting/collage, acrylic, graphite, ink, Sharpie, paper, canvas, stickers, drawings, paintings, old Star Wars coloring book pages, continuous feed printer paper, instructional sheet music, water-color, prints, Post-it Notes, found materials, coffee, poly-wool yarn, cotton and ash on canvas tarp (2023)

So ILL Nightmare
So ILL Nightmare

“So ILL Nightmare” - acrylic, graphite, charcoal, collage, mixed-media, found materials, stickers, coffee, cotton and ash on canvas tarp (2023).

'Merica? We Don't Get None of That Out Here in These Parts
'Merica? We Don't Get None of That Out Here in These Parts

"'Merica? We Don't Get None of That Out Here in These Parts" - acrylic, graphite, charcoal, coffee, collage, cotton and ash on canvas tarp

Groomer Saves the Children
Groomer Saves the Children

“Groomer Saves the Children” - acrylic, graphite, charcoal, collage, paper plates (after Julian Schnabel), monitoring foam ECG/EKG electrodes, coffee, cotton and ash on canvas tarp

Arrhythm Nation
Arrhythm Nation

Acrylic, ink, marker, charcoal, graphite, prints, stickers, drawings on sheet music, city maps, canvas, found material collaged with wig hair, glitter, coffee, cotton and ash on canvas tarp.

No Prime Delivery on Big Rock Candy Mountain
No Prime Delivery on Big Rock Candy Mountain

Digital prints, acrylic, drawings, mixed-media, Amazon Prime package material, found material, wig hair, glitter, coffee, cotton and ash on canvas.

Born Again Labor Tract #2
Born Again Labor Tract #2

Digital prints, acrylic, buttons, drawings, mixed-media, found materials, glitter, wig hair, cotton and ash on canvas.

Room Phant Killz Us!!!
Room Phant Killz Us!!!

Acrylic, collage, wig hair, glitter, mixed-media, found materials, prints, coffee, cotton and ash on canvas.

Don't Turtle During Hyphal Fusion
Don't Turtle During Hyphal Fusion

"Don't Turtle During Hyphal Fusion," painting and collage, digital prints, floppy disks, painting, drawing, coffee, ash, found media on canvas tarp (based in part on stories from Tish Turl’s "Stink Ape Resurrection Primer")

Cat Without A Grin
Cat Without A Grin

“Cat Without a Grin” (after Chris Marker, Jase Short, and Robert Longo) - painting, collage, prints, mixed-media, coffee, glitter, wig-hair, cotton and ash on canvas tarp (2021).

Snek Rallies the Oil Snakes, while Aelita Beheads Elon Musk, and Possum Sings Against the Rain
Snek Rallies the Oil Snakes, while Aelita Beheads Elon Musk, and Possum Sings Against the Rain

"Snek Rallies the Oil Snakes, while Aelita Beheads Elon Musk, and Possum Sings Against the Rain” - mixed media collage, prints, paintings, and drawings, with coffee, cotton and ash on canvas tarp, based in part on Tish Turl’s "Stink Ape Resurrection Primer," Alexi Tolstoy’s novel "Aelita" and the film adaptation, and Aimé Césaire's "Journal of a Homecoming."

Mike the UPS Guy Gave Birth to the New People But Now the Moon is a Cartoon Bomb
Mike the UPS Guy Gave Birth to the New People But Now the Moon is a Cartoon Bomb

"Mike the UPS Guy Gave Birth to the New People But Now the Moon is a Cartoon Bomb" Acrylic, ink, marker, stickers, photocopies, post-it notes, graphite, continuous feed printer paper, drawings, paper, coffee, cotton and ash on collaged canvas and canvas tarp (December, 2020-January 2021).

Vivarium Annex
Vivarium Annex

When they came for us we held out in the Vivarium Annex -- once known as Sunset Haven; the old county poor house and farm; what the kids wrongly called the Old Insane Asylum on Old Insane Asylum Road.

The Space Comrades Aren't Coming so Warm Yourself by the Riot Fire
The Space Comrades Aren't Coming so Warm Yourself by the Riot Fire

"Little Egypt Burial #1: The Space Comrades Can't Make It So Warm Yourself By The Riot Fire." Acrylic, ink, marker, stickers, photocopies, post-it notes, graphite, continuous feed printer paper, used surgical mask, coffee, cotton and ash on collaged canvas and canvas tarp (August, 2020).

Cyborg Painting #1: Every time a Cyborg Heart Beats an Essential Worker Loses Hero Pay
Cyborg Painting #1: Every time a Cyborg Heart Beats an Essential Worker Loses Hero Pay

Acrylic, ink, coffee, tobacco, cotton and ash on “AI Generated Painting” (retailed at $44 online). This painting is not anti-cyborg. A lot of essential workers who lost hero pay are cyborgs. They imprison us all with the work of our beating hearts.

Day 29 in the Poor Room
Day 29 in the Poor Room

This painting/collage was acquired on the 29th day of the quarantine * acrylic, ink, Sharpie, oil, drawings, digital prints, found material, coffee, surgical mask, latex glove, cotton and ash on unstretched canvas. Written on its edges are a story about two vampires who are under house arrest on the surface of the sun.

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The Poverty of Theory (HM 2022)
The Poverty of Theory (HM 2022)

Adam Turl’s presentation for Historical Materialism London 2022 on the relationship of theory and practice in contemporary Marxist cultural criticism and practice in the light of digital communicative capitalism.

BALM Ed. Video #1: Galapagos, Illinois
BALM Ed. Video #1: Galapagos, Illinois

In February 2020 the Born Again Labor Museum began work on the first of a new series of educational videos, Galapagos, Illinois. This video, meant in part as a memorial to Ray Markley, was shot largely on location in Fulton County, Illinois, and conflates the novel Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut with everyday life. Stills from Galapagos, Illinois and its production (in progress):

BALM Ed. Video #2: How to Become a Possum
BALM Ed. Video #2: How to Become a Possum

In November BALM directors Tish Markley and Adam Turl began to micro-dose possum blood in an effort to become immune to Covid 19.

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Fermi Bottle #3
Fermi Bottle #3

Fermi Bottle #3: A letter from a planet whose residents are permanently on fire.

Fermi Bottle #4
Fermi Bottle #4

Fermi Bottle #4: A letter from a planet where no one has gotten a good night’s sleep in 73 years.

Fermi Bottle #2
Fermi Bottle #2

Fermi Bottle #2: A letter from the Smells Like Fish Island on a planet destroyed by atomic weapons after a workers' revolution.

Fermi Bottle #1
Fermi Bottle #1

Fermi Bottle #1: A letter from a nurse named Porpa Moonshine on the planet Prosperity.

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Gib (from Space Goths)
Gib (from Space Goths)

Gib — based on a character from the Tish Markley short story, “Space Goths.”

Pirate Jenny
Pirate Jenny

Puppet based on the Brecht poem, “Jenny the Pirate”

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Communist Manifesto Distribution Project
Communist Manifesto Distribution Project

Communist Manifesto Distribution Project (2021-ongoing)

Communist Manifesto Distribution Project
Communist Manifesto Distribution Project

Communist Manifesto Distribution Project (2021-ongoing)

Communist Manifesto Distribution Project
Communist Manifesto Distribution Project

Communist Manifesto Distribution Project (2021-ongoing)

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Ring the Dollar Stores
Ring the Dollar Stores

BALM’s Irrealist Mutual Aid Project (2023-ongoing)

Ring the Dollar Stores
Ring the Dollar Stores

BALM’s Irrealist Mutual Aid Project (2023-ongoing)

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Choose 2 Give Up Every Day
Choose 2 Give Up Every Day

The Common Task Agit-Prop Library is an ongoing project of the Born Again Labor Museum; aiming to provide both practical and impractical agit-prop for the wider community.

There is Nothing Wrong with Time Travel
There is Nothing Wrong with Time Travel

The Common Task Agit-Prop Library is an ongoing project of the Born Again Labor Museum; aiming to provide both practical and impractical agit-prop for the wider community.

Subsidize Soy Consumption
Subsidize Soy Consumption

The Common Task Agit-Prop Library is an ongoing project of the Born Again Labor Museum; aiming to provide both practical and impractical agit-prop for the wider community.

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Wounded Bee Smoker
Wounded Bee Smoker

Wounded Tool 32593-T – Bee Smoker (bandaged in a poem by Alexander Billet) - When the last bees died, the bee smoker filled itself with crystal meth in a failed suicide attempt. Unchecked it will float around the countryside getting people high, but only if they don’t want to be, and especially if they suffer from anxiety disorder. The Wounded Tool Library is attempting to teach the bee smoker to only get people high with their consent. Until then its pain is being managed with poem bandaging.

Wounded Box Grater
Wounded Box Grater

Wounded Tool 326501-T - Box Grater (wrapped in a poem by Michael Linaweaver): Abandoned after the mass marketing of pre-packaged shredded cheese, this box grater fell into a deep depression. Unchecked it will deprive middle-class white people of the shredded cheese they 'need' for their 'fajitas,' and will turn grated food material into aluminum filings. It has been wrapped in the poem '2046' to ameliorate its psychological pain. (July 2020)

Wounded Harmonicas
Wounded Harmonicas

Wounded Tool 32590-92-T - Harmonicas - When the last human being who remembered Leadbelly’s “We Shall Be Free” died, this group of harmonicas went into a sort of psychosis. They have been put into suspended animation in Whiskey in hopes that a cure can be found. If exposed to the air they will begin a rendition of “Gloomy Sunday,” causing mass suicides within a 3.5 mile radius.

Wounded Sickles
Wounded Sickles

Wounded Tool 32596-8-T - Sickles (Wounded Tool Library, Born Again Labor Museum): "Like most sickles, these artifacts grew tired of harvesting crops and cutting weeds long before they were replaced by electrical and motorized tools. After misunderstanding Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass – a book very popular among sickles – these artifacts aspired to become poets. The sickles, however, are only capable of harvesting words from already existing poems. Before being captured by the Wounded Tool Library these sickles harvested most of the poetry in the St. Louis public library." (2019)

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Wendy's, Burger King, and Hardee's Parking Lots' Wives
Wendy's, Burger King, and Hardee's Parking Lots' Wives

Salt packets, glue, pedestals (2021-2022).

Women of the 19th of September
Women of the 19th of September

“Women of the 19th of September,” sewing machine, salvaged pedestal, bandages, stage blood, acrylic, cotton and ash (2022).

Burger King Parking Lot's Wife
Burger King Parking Lot's Wife

“Burger King Parking Lot’s Wife” - salvaged pedestal, salt packets, glue (2021)

Monuments for Essential Workers
Monuments for Essential Workers

Monuments for Essential Workers - traffic cones, hard hats, cheese cloth, gauze, plaster, and work/drop lights (April 2021).

It's Always October 2nd Someplace
It's Always October 2nd Someplace

It's Always October 2nd Someplace - chairs and desks, books, fake-blood (April 2021)

Apocalypse Rink
Apocalypse Rink

Apocalypse Rink - door, basketball hoop, paint, ink, cotton and ash, office mat, Soviet toy rocket, stool (March 2021).

Cicero's Pawns Pwn Cicero
Cicero's Pawns Pwn Cicero

Cicero's Pawns Pwn Cicero - pawns, gaming table, plaster, drawings, vellum and mixed-media (March 2021).

Opossum Box
Opossum Box

Opossum Box - The first artifact of the Born Again Labor Museum (BALM) was a reliquary containing the bones of an opossum infused with the spirit of an unknown victim of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire; victim 147. The bones were stolen during a 1968 BALM exhibition in Toledo, Ohio. They were recovered in September 2020 by Tish Markley and Adam Turl. Upon receiving the bones, Markley and Turl found they were covered in writing. Moreover, the bones kept screaming in pain. After several healing techniques were tried -- such as coupling the bones with wounded tools or post-industrial healing debris, or wrapping them in poetry -- they found that suspending the bones in a coal miner’s canary cage helped alleviate their suffering.

Plague Angel/Toilet Paper with Wings
Plague Angel/Toilet Paper with Wings

Toilet paper, costume wings, thread (2020).

Class Stelae
Class Stelae

Memorial defense for passed comrades. Nails, epoxy, acrylic, collage, mixed media on wood boards.

Monument 4 Future Socialist Children
Monument 4 Future Socialist Children

Acrylic, cotton, Sharpie, mixed-media, latex on canvas (2019).

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Kentucky Hunters
Kentucky Hunters

Drawing and digital collage (2020) - product of remote viewing.

E-Cential Owl vs. Freedom
E-Cential Owl vs. Freedom

Drawing and digital collage (2020) - product of remote viewing.

Harvest Them + Re-Open the Schools!
Harvest Them + Re-Open the Schools!

Drawing and digital collage (2020) - product of remote viewing.


Worker's Argus Panoptes
Worker's Argus Panoptes

Drawing and digital collage (2020) - product of remote viewing.

Truck Nuts, Hands Off! - Why Hide Them?
Truck Nuts, Hands Off! - Why Hide Them?

Drawing and digital collage (2020) - product of remote viewing.

Hand-O-Fate (After Emory Douglas)
Hand-O-Fate (After Emory Douglas)

Drawing and digital collage (2020) - product of remote viewing.

The True History of the UR Snake Oil (On Planet X)
The True History of the UR Snake Oil (On Planet X)

Drawing and digital collage (2020) - product of remote viewing.

Flamingo Caduceus
Flamingo Caduceus

Drawing and digital collage (2020) - product of remote viewing.

Memez
Memez

Drawing and digital collage (2019) - product of remote viewing.

BALM’s Tish and Adam Turl were interviewed by Adam Ray Adkins on The Acid Left Podcast. If you want to support BALM join our Patreon and/or donate to our fundraiser. (Fall 2021)