THANKS TO APPLE, AMAZON AND THE MALL
2014-12-29“Thanks to Apple, Amazon, and the Mall,” attempts to bring some of the themes that many of the artists threaded through the ebooks; how technology distributes feelings, emotions, and embodied experiences, manifesting a fantasy version of humanity and leaving behind the constraints of biology. Artists explore grossly distorted versions of both the human form and evolving digital visual systems, amplifying urges in surprising and strange ways.
These themes will be presented in the physical gallery space in a variety of mediums, drawing a parallel between online stores such as iTunes and Amazon with the gallery’s white cube, whose crisp linearity echoes another achievement of 20th century architecture, the mall. These spaces, physical and digital, homogenize our encounters with objects/products/content. The show also hints at the social aspects to these commercial spaces, where interactions are placed within a corporate structure. The show also hints at the social forms that emerge in these commercial spaces, which are formalized by power structures yet still hold potential for spontaneity, conflict, failure, and decay.
The title of the show comes out of a credit line in Isaac Richard Poole’s ebook Alien She, and points to the project’s dependence on corporations to sell and distribute the work.
Exhibition runs from January 6th to February 8, 2015
Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery
54 Ludlow St
Lower East Side
New York
10002
