From Kosovo to Chechnya people are driven out of homes and communities
and forced to live in improvised camps. In the USA an unannounced war
is carried on against workers and the poor by a techno-corporate state
with a "change is good" slogan that disguises domination and consumer
brainwashing. A corporate mafia of techno-industrial nations creates the
World Trade Organization and the World Bank to exploit third world
nations in the name of progress and impose a media-commodity culture on
them.
As global domination becomes more and more our reality, we are left with
nothing but the road. But where do we go? Is there any place that misses
the hand of the corporate media culture.?
At Gallery: Gertrude Stein, on May 18th, a group exhibition of art will
open in which the suitcase is presented as a symbol of displacement and
dislocation. Today the condition of the American artist is one of
displacement. Constantly followed by developers and speculators, the
American artist is displaced from studio and community. Even the life of
the artists is now viewed a commodity of life-style development suitable
for exploitation by interior designers and fashion mongers. Today the
American artist is on the run. They are without art community or studio.
What do they do? They pack their suitcases. They work out of suitcases.
They create art worlds in suitcases.
Will the future see artists as gypsy communities constantly on the run?
Or will it face extinction by a corporate art world of hired teams of
art designers, programmed to devise commercialized art scenes and
designer art, in a Disney-style development.
This exhibition is about the independent spirit of the artist. It is
about the fact that some artists will endure under all conditions, and
that the spirit of art is something that cannot be commodified or
rationalized into a software program.
Contact: Andrew Ethe-535-0600, fax 765-6178
May 18 through June 30, 2000
Hours: tues.-sat. 10:00-5:30
Phone:212-535-0600 Fax:
212-765-6178
Miriam Bloom, Kurt Novak, Sam Goodman, Karen Shaw,
Bill Barrell, Herbert Reichert, Nancy
Cohen, D.Copobianco,Mimi Gross, Ron Morosan, Barbara Stork, Boris Lurie,
Bill Rodwell, Sherry
Hendrick, Clayton Patterson, and othersSeptember 25, 2001 01:57:40 PM