"The Days of Society are Numbered" Exhibition

Abrons Arts Center

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The Abrons Arts Center is proud to present "The Days of This Society Are Numbered", an exhibition inspired by French thinker Guy Debord’s 1979 declaration that “The days of this society are numbered; its reasons and its merits have been weighed in the balance and have been found wanting; its inhabitants are divided into two sides, one of which wants this society to disappear.” The show, curated by Miguel Amado, brings together artists that respond to, comment on, or depart from this situationist passage to examine the political, economic, and cultural crisis that characterizes the social world. The works on view play on the entropic nature of present times, in which a conspicuous questioning of the state of affairs generates a collective anxiety. Such a condition typically defines the decadence of a fin-de-siècle experience rather than the auspicious beginning of a new century, which makes Debord’s revolutionary reasoning not only prescient but also imperative today.

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from March 06, 2011 to April 16, 2011

Opening Reception on 2011-03-06 from 18:00 to 20:00

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