Subject To Capital

“The object of art – like every other product – creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty. Production thus not only creates an object for the subject, but also a subject for the object” - Karl Marx

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Subject To Capital

March 3 - April 17, 2016 Abrons Arts Center 466 Grand St. New York, NY

D-L Alvarez & Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas, João Enxuto & Erica Love, Doreen Garner,  Baseera Khan, Jennifer Moon & laub, Hélio Oiticia & Neville D’Almeida, Kembra Pfahler, Alan Ruiz, Allan Sekula, Aliza Shvarts, Hong-Kai Wang

www.abronsartscenter.org/galleries/subject-to-capital.html

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Installation shot (day) Alan Ruiz “Organizational Transparency” (2016)

Installation shot (night) Alan Ruiz “Organizational Transparency” (2016)

Alan Ruiz “309975 / 11901791A” (2008)

Colin Rowe, “Transparency: Literal and Phenomenal”

David Harvey, “The Art of Rent”

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João Enxuto & Erica Love “Second Skin” (2016)

Screenshot of timeline from freecooperunion.org

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Still from “3CE: A Relational Love Odyssey” (TRT 11:15) part of Jennifer Moon & laub, Phoenix Rising, Part 3: laub, me, and The Revolution (The Theory of Everything) (2015)

Detail from “GFT (Gut Fairies Transplant)”part of Jennifer Moon & laub, Phoenix Rising, Part 3: laub, me, and The Revolution (The Theory of Everything) (2015)  Jennifer Moon, Definition of Abundance

laub, Mother Fucking Church on KCHUNG radio.  Episode list available at http://motherfuckingchurch.kchungradio.org/

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Still from Hong-Kai Wang “Accept Me For What I Am, If You Want Me” (2009, TRT 4:03). 

Lisa Lowe, The Intimacies of Four Continents (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014).

Sylvia Wynter, On Being Human As Praxis, ed. Katherine McKittrick (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015).

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Detail of Aliza Shvarts “Sibboleth” (2016).

Aliza Shvarts, “Troubled air: the drone and doom of reproduction in Sunn0)))’s metal maeutic” in Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory.

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Still from Bassera Khan “Hochbunker” (2014/2016, TRT 12:12). 

Walter Benjamin “Critique of Violence” published in Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings, trans. Edmund Jephcott (New York: Shocken Books, 1986).  Originally written 1920/1921.

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Installation shot from Kembra Pfahler “Capital Improvements” (2016).

Tune in to Pfahler’s Know Wave radio program “Performance Art 101.″

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Hélio Oiticica & Neville D’Almeida “14-CC3 (Maileryn / Cosmococa Programa in Progress)” 1973/2003.  Courtesy of Galerie Lelong and the Estate of Hélio Oiticica. 

Edward Leffingwell, “Hélio Oiticica: Myth of the Outlaw” from Art In America” (December 2002), Vol. 90 Issue 12.