Jeremy Couillard

The show will be by appointment only with walk-ins allowed.

To sign up for an appointment please follow the link here: http://outofbodyexperience.clinic/

“The problem as I sense it is simple. Eventually, a quantum jump in consciousness will be required to reduce the material to a practical "something of value" level. What does this mean? Does that great consciousness change take place while still alive physically? Or in another reality, later? Who are the instructors, the helpers?”

–Bob Monroe, Journeys Out of the Body, 1971

Louis B. James will transform itself from an art gallery to a metaphysical experience through the presentation of Jeremy Couillard’s second solo show with the gallery, Out of Body Experience Clinic (OBEC). Mining the teachings of Bob Monroe, outdated technology from the 90s, Gene Youngblood’s Expanded Cinema and new developments in virtual reality the OBEC allows the viewer to enter the gallery only to leave, expanding one's’ horizons beyond the four white walls meant to hold you captive.

Couillard has created a seamless virtual world. The viewer is invited into the clinic through the ground floor gallery where they will sit in a waiting room, watch the Bob Monroe 24/7 Out of Body Experience News Network and enjoy a cup of coffee until called by a docent who will then lead them into the basement-level gallery where they will be strapped in and released. What follows is ultimately up to the participant: explore new rooms in your mind, portals through time and space, interactions with otherworldly beings, traverse through alien terrain.

Jeremy Couillard (b. 1980, MI) has exhibited internationally with solo shows at Louis B. James, NY, NY and Zhulong Gallery, Dallas, TX. Select group shows include Denny Gallery, the Red Bull Music Academy, Denver Theater District and MonkeyTown. His work has been exhibited at Salon 94 Bowery and The Brooklyn Museum. He will have an upcoming 3D short screened at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and has recently participated in the Rotterdam Film Festival with My Time In the Cult of Melting Ancestors.