Dream Factory
Michael Bell-Smith, Neil Beloufa, Guy Ben-Ner, Harm van den Dorpel, Harun Farocki, Mark Leckey, The Otolith Group, Hito Steyerl, Pilvi Takala, Ryan Trecartin, Andrew Norman Wilson.
Curated by Aily Nash and Andrew Norman Wilson
Considering the various modes of examining new forms of labor, consumption-as-production, and the aesthetics and visual language of globalized "lifestyles," artists' moving image and media work recapitulate corporate imagery and language as both a critique and recognition of the omnipotence of these systems. From videos that present the agency of objects in relation to consumers, to the consideration of the space of labor through interventions into sites of emergent industries and globalized consumption, performative and farcical rhetoric, exaggerated uses of prosumer editing and motion graphics tools, and reverent appropriations of advertising imagery—these makers explicitly engage dream factory capitalism.
Programme I
A New Product - Harun Farocki 2012
Workers Leaving the Googleplex - Andrew Norman Wilson, 2011
The Trainee - Pilvi Takala, 2008
Stealing Beauty - Guy Ben-Ner, 2007
Programme II
People's passion, lifestyle beautiful wine, gigantic glass towers, all surrounded by water - Neil Beloufa, 2011
De-employed - Michael-Bell Smith, 2012
Strategies - Harm van den Dorpel, 2011
Strike, Hito Steyerl, 2010
Green Screen Refrigerator - Mark Leckey, 2010
K-CoreaINC.K - Ryan Trecartin, 2009
All works courtesy of the artists.
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Upcoming Screenings
Image Employment at MoMA PS1, New York City - September 2013
Exuberant Politics at The University of Iowa Museum of Art - Iowa City, Iowa - October 2013
FACT - Liverpool, UK - December 2013
Past Screenings
Import Projects - Berlin, Germany (Press Release) - February 2013
Intern VIP Lounge at Art Dubai - Dubai, UAE - March 2013
ETCAMA: The Problem of Everything - Amsterdam, The Netherlands - June 2013
To Look Is To Labor - CCS Bard/Basilica Hudson - Hudson, NY - July 2013