text by KYLE RAND and PAUL MCCARTHY artworks by PAUL MCCARTHY a contemporary artist living and working in los angeles, paul mccarthy works in many media, including installation, performance, video, film, and “painting as action.” his work has been collected internationally and can be found in the guggenheim museum in new york, the tate modern in london, and the smithsonian museum of american art in washington, d.c. walking it is just before the turn of the century the struggle that is the american empire is what if knowledge was a stage storage of intelligence that became obsolete dead what does who does information utterly transformed human consciousness perfectly suited to its present without the need to protect itself entirely desiring of any fate amor fati invincible dissolute entangled it was so absurd we carried so much burden we needed so many objects santa cloaked christmases in order to function in…