1500 S Western Ave
Suite 407
Chicago, IL 60608
Sat. 1–4pm
info@methimpikehoses.com
Enter the building through the north entrance, a passenger elevator is accessible after a flight of stairs.
Met him pike hoses was founded by Julian Van Der Moere in 2025 in Pilsen’s Midland Building. Pronounced as either met him pike hoses /ˈmet ˈhim ˈpīk ˈhōzəz/ or as metempsychosis /mə-ˌtem(p)-si-ˈkō-səs/, the name makes reference to a recurrence in James Joyce’s Ulysses: a mispronounced word that comes to stand in for errant phrases or encounters, something muttered under one’s breath or to be stumbled over in one’s mind.
The model for this space is anti-strategic, with an interest in general disjunction or with being out of time; presenting local artists, international artists, historical works, bootlegged works, anonymous works, non-art objects, performances, texts, films, etc.