ICA Culture Now: Joshua Simon, Friday December 5, 1pm
ICA Culture Now: Joshua Simon, Friday December 5, 1pm
Petra Cortright True Life: I'm a Selfie - (Fake True's Negativity Remix), 2013 Webcam video, 1 minute 39 sec. Courtesy the artist
Joshua Simon gives a talk in relation to a newly commissioned text, Shockwork: the Selfie and the Labour of the Overqualified, with an introduction by Nimrod Kamer. Simon examines the selfie and its recent emergence and proliferation, as a symptom of our late capitalist contemporary society. He observes that whilst consumerist needs of self-gratification and self-marketing continue to be pursued, other deeper issues such as mass unemployment and precarity fissure the fabric of today’s society.
5 Dec 20141:00 pm | Theatre | £5 / Free to ICA Members
Institute of Contemporary Arts The Mall London SW1Y 5AH
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