My OperaSYSTEM ERROR: WAR IS A FORCE THAT GIVES US MEANING
Sunday, January 14, 2007 2:26:57 PM
Curated by Lorenzo Fusi & Naeem Mohaiemenhttp://papesse.org
Palazzo Papesse Centre for Contemporary Art in Siena will present a
new show "SYSTEM ERROR: WAR
IS A FORCE THAT GIVES US MEANING." The show is co-curated by Papesse head curator Lorenzo Fusi and New York
+Dhaka based artist Naeem Mohaiemen, on February 3- May 6 2007
The curators set out to explore this fundamental question: if war is
universally opposed, why do new conflicts keep breaking out? Is there
an addiction to warfare in the human psyche? Has it become a drug we
cannot quit? These and many other questions including the nature of
"hard" and "soft" conflict; the allure of flags, national anthems and
nationalism; and pop culture's profitable fascination with bloody
violence are explored in this project.
While certain conflicts tend to dominate global media, the curators
also emphasized conflagrations that often slip under the radar. These
include Beslan school raid, U2's expensive lawyers, rebranded School
of Americas, East Timor library, Oaxaca burning, Darfur refugee
camps, Rome assassination, Iraq's managed chaos, "Safe" Area Gorazde,
D.W. Griffith's Night Riders, Vietnam's burning monk, Oliver Stone's
9/11 blockbuster, Jetblue's t-shirt policy, Paris cat graffiti,
Newsweek's Rwanda amnesia, Iranian embassy takeover,
Che Guevara's New York visit, Bangladesh's gun culture,
and Thailand's rose coup.Featuring the artwork of more than 40 international artists including
internationally established pioneers (Chris Marker, Alfredo Jaar,
Lebbeus Woods) to newer artists (Chris Naka, Rheim AlKadhi, Yara El-
Sherbini), as well as those who have never shown in the museum or
gallery context (Chaleerat Ngamchalee, Israel Rosas). While some
artists have exhibited at venues such as the Whitney, Venice and
Sydney Biennial, the curators also discovered many of these works
while attending protest rallies, going to a concert, browsing a comic
book store, and surfing YouTube and Flickr. In the choice of artists,
mediums and genres, this project looks at some possible futures for
politically engaged visual arts, both inside gallery walls, and on
the streets of modern cities.
As well as established mediums such as video, sculpture, print, and
conceptual art, the selection has an emphasis on newer mediums and
genre-breaking work: flash animation (Young-Hae Chang), Hollywood
mashups (Chris Naka, Jackie Salloum, Chris Moukarbel), TV satire
(Yara el-Sherbini), t-shirt wars (Usman Haque), comic books (Joe
Sacco, Dawolu Jabari Anderson), video games (Jon Haddock), library
rescue (Tom Nicholson), music mix (DJ Spooky), street performance
(Richard DeDomenici), museum intervention (Meir Gal), bullet opera
(Emily Jacir), radio piracy (Negativland), and musicals (Damir Niksic]
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dɹɐzılpǝkɔıw ɐʞɐ ɹǝɥgɐllɐg lǝbɐsıwickedlizard # Sunday, January 14, 2007 4:39:23 PM
JosephMeenaBhalobasha # Monday, January 15, 2007 2:25:43 PM
dɹɐzılpǝkɔıw ɐʞɐ ɹǝɥgɐllɐg lǝbɐsıwickedlizard # Monday, January 15, 2007 9:11:00 PM
the art, yeah, would have loved to have seen that!
JosephMeenaBhalobasha # Tuesday, January 16, 2007 5:39:03 AM
Simply fantastic for a perspective.
dɹɐzılpǝkɔıw ɐʞɐ ɹǝɥgɐllɐg lǝbɐsıwickedlizard # Sunday, February 4, 2007 11:07:05 PM