"POP: Crackle & Snap" Exhibition
The Leo Kuelbs Collection
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happens when comfort replaces survival? When hunting, gathering and farming are replaced by taking a ride in your warm SUV to the supermarket? The cravings persist, hard-wired, even as the conditions and contexts evolve along with the times.
The advertising, marketing and entertainment industries have also evolved, simultaneously reflecting and manipulating generations of Westerners who’ve been raised staring into the media’s seductive mirrors and cesspools. To stare too long is unhealthy, it is bad candy. Too much sugar will rot your teeth. Yet we imbibe deeply, often times to excess, our brain’s pleasure centers blowing up like tiny fireworks.
Now we factor in the exponential growth of technology and the newly articulating inter-connections between countries and cultures. It is a crush of over-charged hype, heavily amplified in the wild new media’s echo-chambers, each message louder and more extreme than the last, pressing buttons, working old cravings and desires until the absorber gives in to the message or turns away from it, yet embracing the same old habits, if for nothing other than self-medication.
“POP: Crackle and Snap” is an opportunity to look through the mirror and into our shared pop past, upon which the present teeters, poised for an uncomfortable entry into the crazy and congested future.
[Image: Christine Schulz, Still from “PLACEBO” (2009), Video Installation, Various Materials/Media, Variable Size]
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Schedule
from February 19, 2010 to February 20, 2010
6-9 PM
Opening Reception on 2010-02-18 from 18:00 to 21:00
Need RSVP to: lkuelbs@mac.com by February 16th.