On the work of the culture jamming activist duo.

Exhibition publication, 2 Oct 2009 – 25 Oct 2009, Transition Gallery, London.

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.

In German and English

A book about the arts and about business, and the interplay between the two. Part of the Platform Study Room Guide (P1820).

Charts the history of this American culture war through detailed analysis of the work of artists who fought on the front lines, often finding themselves personally vilified.

Asking exactly what we mean by political art or the politics of art, Rancière goes on to look at what the tradition of critical art, and the desire to insert art into life, has achieved. Has the militant critique of the consumption of images and commodities become, ironically, a sad affirmation of its omnipotence?

An interdisciplinary approach to the forms, goals and histories of innovative social practice in both contemporary performance and visual art.

This item is referenced in the Dreams for an Institution Guide (P2313).

Part of a boxset: 12 disks across 3 dvd cases. Void A Void, Sheherezade’s Veil, Open Space, Alastair Mac Lennan, Piotroski, Jacques Van Poppel, Roi Vaara, Janos Szirtes, Habib Kheradyar Zamani, Tomas Ruller, Lublin, Prague, Bydgoszcz, Groundwork Site Actuation, Groundworks Space Actuations, Black Market/Groundworks