Claire Gustavson “Putting on a Show!”
AC Institute
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Claire Gustavson’s sculpture and videos are reveries of total control snuggled into a hyper-consumable, semi-twee aesthetic. Her works explore banality by creating a world where boredom is transcendent and consumerism creates a pathway to agency. As a performer within the work, Gustavson hollows out power positions so that they are less threatening. Since she makes the rules, otherwise inaccessible roles are now attainable. putting on a show! is a non-competitive dog show. The performance space borrows from fashion, athletics and mass-produced furniture to facilitate a more complex discussion of aesthetics and control. The framework of the dog show is a surface structure that is part fantasy, part struggle. Biography
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Schedule
from September 25, 2014 to October 04, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-09-25 from 18:00 to 20:00