The ongoing series from photographer David Welch Material World treats artifacts of contemporary consumer culture as readymades, stacking the crap we compulsively accumulate into large, surrealist heaps. See little pink things breeders buy for their perpetually amnesiac babies, towers of old, new, now old again television sets and a greasy cornucopia horn of junk food built into “pseudo monuments or totems.” Hyperbolical is it? Ok, scoff. Bet you’re weekly Googling “iPad 3″ though.
Capitalism is an All Anal Action
It’s an “allegorical connection between the conquest of the Americas by the Spanish” and ass fucking, more eloquent and deliberate than you’d think. Spanish artist Santiago Sierra’s Los Penetrados (The Penetrated) is a 45-minute film in eight acts. It subverts the capitalist model by paying poor white/black/women/men for alternating anal penetration in “a mathematical formula” of “fluctuating outcomes” surrounded by mirrors. It’s not PC. It’s not PG. “Los Penetrados,” Santiago Sierra, Sep 9 – Oct 23, Team Gallery, NYC
If you missed it, see the Academy Award winning short, Nicolas Schmerkin’s Logorama here. Reinventing the homicidal clowns genre, it’s cop movie meets Walmart CEO acid trip as Ronald McDonald rampages through a universe compiled entirely of logos and company avatars. Check the Shepard Fairey posters at 5:35, fitting quite snugly into the capitalism-inspired flash-animated hell.
Perhaps you’ve found yourself thinking lately, as you’ve shivered while walking through the frozen tundra of New York City, “Gee, I sure can’t wait till summer gets here…maybe I can find a cool beach house somewhere?!” Well, your search is over pal! Read more »
Now that we’ve all shown our appreciation to the universe for the gifts its bestowed upon us by engorging ourselves on steroid-laden fowl, creamed green beans topped with stale onion rings from a can and gelatinous cranberry molds, it’s time to whip out our big, capitalist, American dongs and buy some shit. Read more »
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