The Throne of James Hampton
A throne room, built from garbage and wrapped in aluminum foil, was discovered in a storage unit in 1964, Washington DC. Accompanying it, was a holy text written in an unrecognizable language. Together, these works make up James Hampton’s “Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly.”
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Additional Reading/Viewing:
Washington Post (1981): https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/magazine/1981/08/09/the-throne-of-the-third-heaven-of-the-nations-millenium-general-assembly/d55a120c-e384-4af3-bff1-e6440b4fc1d8/
Washington Post (2005): https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2005/12/10/the-revelation-of-the-folk-artist/68a3d3ae-8655-482c-851f-666dc41bb392/
History.org: https://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/Spring04/throne.cfm
Pacific Standard article: https://psmag.com/social-justice/cracking-code-james-hamptons-private-language-96278
Smithsonian Lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oabZVM-02IQ
Art Is Not A Spectator Sport Podcast: http://artisnotaspectatorsport.com/?p=619
Hamptonese and Hidden Markov Models paper: http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/faculty/stamp/Hampton/hamptonHMM/hamptonese.pdf
Down the Rabbit Hole (Henry Darger): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjCS_u3Sgpg
The Interactive Dept: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7WqtL29UAY&t
Art inspired by The Throne:
Le Loup’s music: https://leloup.bandcamp.com/
Denis Johnson’s poetry: https://www.amazon.com/Throne-Nations-Millennium-General-Assembly/dp/0060926961/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=denis+johnson+throne+of+third+heaven&qid=1576010313&sr=8-1
Shelley Pearsall’s fiction: https://www.amazon.com/Seventh-Most-Important-Thing/dp/0553497316/ref=sr_1_1?crid=DY8H2Q2DSFPG&keywords=the+seventh+most+important+thing+by+shelley+pearsall&qid=1576010342&sprefix=seventh+most+im%2Caps%2C246&sr=8-1
Music:
Comfortable Mystery 4 – Film Noire by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100535
Artist: http://incompetech.com/
“Fairy Meeting” by Emily A. Sprauge
“Animaux Obscènes” by Dan Bodan
“Keeping Sacred” by Emily A. Sprauge
Babylon – Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100314
Artist: http://incompetech.com/
CGI Snake by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/divider/
Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/
Some stock footage provided by Studio Crump: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCryyfWES2pcZLJP2-wrcONw
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