"Vertically Integrated Manufacturing" Exhibition
Murray Guy
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Murray Guy is very pleased to present the exhibition “Vertically Integrated Manufacturing,” including works by Francis Alÿs, Carl Andre, Fia Backström, Bernd & Hilla Becher, DAS INSTITUT, Dexter Sinister, Douglas Huebler, Allan McCollum, and Stephen Prina, as well as a CD by Seth Price.
Taking as its starting point Jacques Rancière’s observation that “artistic practice is not the outside of work, but rather its displaced form of visibility,” the works in this show put their own conditions of production on display, responding to and perhaps even anticipating changing processes of labor.
If art has the capacity to bridge sensory experience and abstract thought, it might be uniquely suited to reflect on an economy that increasingly blurs differences between physical goods and immaterial services, and confuses distinctions between production and consumption. In this economy, “Treat manufacturing as a service” is the new managerial imperative, and companies like Nike configure themselves not as producers of goods such as shoes or clothing, but rather as manufacturers of a brand that is supported by the circulation of products and other activities.
“Vertically Integrated Manufacturing” is not necessarily meant to imply a mode of top-down physical integration, such as Carnegie Steel or American Apparel, but rather to suggest a starting point for understanding each artist as negotiating a series of relationships between certain materials or inputs and the ordering, transformation and distribution thereof.
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Schedule
from January 09, 2010 to February 20, 2010