Christina Laquet “CR(I)SES AD(JUST)MENTS (COLLAPSED)”
Flux Factory
This event has ended.
CR(I)SES AD(JUST)MENTS (COLLAPSED) focuses on the monstrous metaphors that were born out of The Great Depression of 1929 and those that have yet to arise from the 2008 Great Recession. In 1933, just four years after Black Thursday, King Kong became a popular icon in the historic birthplace of finance, simultaneously embodying the savage, the transgressive, and the monstrous.
Five years after the recent economic crisis, how do we connect the figure of the monster to contemporary life? What is its possible embodiment today? Using historical documents, in the creation of performance, drawings, and films, this exhibition is proposing to reactivate and short-circuit established narratives.
A book launch will accompany the opening reception. During her 6 month residency at Flux Factory, Christine Laquet invited different writers to contribute and reflect on her research: artists, performers, art critics and historians, curators, composers and collaboraters. The book includes contributions by Arnaud Gerspacher, Chennie Huang, Christine Laquet, Mille Højerslev Nielson, Robert Steijn, Julien Tarride and Julien Zerbone.
Media
Schedule
from June 09, 2013 to June 15, 2013
June 9th, 12am-7pm, June 10 – 15, 2pm-6pm
Opening Reception on 2013-06-08 from 18:00 to 21:00