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How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness
Examines the integrative and interdisciplinary strategies of five contemporary artists stressing the ways in which their work at once reflects and alters our view of its informing context: the advent of postmodernity in late twentieth-century American art and culture.
Reform
Documentation of performances (50 mins). See also, P1640.
The People Are Demanding
Highlights from the artist’s first UK solo exhibition at Rivington Place.
Brutal Silences: A Live Art Development Agency Study Room Guide on Live Art in Ireland
A Study Room Guide featuring selected performances from eleven artists who interrogate and interrupt the silences that exist in Ireland.
Reform
Publication includes a performance/event description an 7 ‘code of conduct’ cards. See also D1655 for full documentation.
[true crime]
Publication contains 2-page event discussion and 2 stickers.
‘Identity Correction’ The Yes Men and acts of discursive ‘leverage’
On the work of the culture jamming activist duo.
Urban Interior: Informal explorations, interventions and occupations
The Yes Men Fix the World
This documentary features the politically engaged con artists known as the Yes Men, who stage elaborate hoaxes to expose corporate malfeasance using guerrilla tactics. Among the stunts are promises to pay restitution to local citizens while impersonating executives from corporations like Dow — whose explosion contaminated an Indian village — and BP. They also pose as representatives from Haliburton and introduce the SurvivaBall, an inflatable orb designed to withstand catastrophe.
