Advertising Agency: Scholz & Friends, Hamburg, Germany Creative Directors: Matthias Schmidt, Gunnar Loeser, Heiko Schmidt Art Director: Stefan Schabenberger Released: December 2006
The simplest definition would be the that it is a system which strives for large-scale realization of PROFIT by acquisition or manufacturing of goods that are acquired or made for lower prices and sold for much more.
Accumulation of Wage Rational calculation Capitalism is INDIVIDUALISTIC It is based on the idea of PROGRESS The fundamental unit of MEANING in the capitalist thought is the OBJECT
Consumer Culture
THERAPEUTIC discourse Consumption is always and everywhere a cultural process consumer culture is unique and specific. It is the dominant mode of cultural reproduction developed in the advanced industrial societies
Corporate capitalism organization man Corporate bureaucracies Multinational corporations Globalization- Global Economy So -called Society of the Spectacle
People are going about their daily lives, working and shopping and playing, worshipping at churches and synagogues and mosques, going to movies and to baseball games.
Life in America is going forward, and as the fourth grader who wrote me knew, that is the ultimate repudiation of terrorism (George Bush address to firemen, police, and
postal workers at the World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia, on November 8, 2001.)
Mladen Stilinovic
Santiago Sierra. Labourers who cannot be paid, remunerated to remain in the interior of carton boxes, 2000 Eight people paid to remain inside cardboard boxes, 1999
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Wang Jin. Chinese Dream, 2006 PVC and fishing line, 175 x 200 x 35 cm.
Ai Weiwei. The Coca-Cola Vase, 2010, Han Dynasty Vase and Industrial Paint
Coca Cola Vase (1997). Vase from Neolithic Age (5000 3000 BCE) and paint, 11 7/8 x diameter 13. Courtesy Tsai Collection, New York.
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"World Map" 2006, cotton and wooden base 100 x 800 x 600 cm
Installation at 15th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 2006
Mark Lombardi, World Finance Corporation and Associates, ca. 197084: Miami, Ajman, and Bogota-Caracas (Brigada 2506: Cuban AntiCastro Bay of Pigs Veteran) (7th Version), 1999. Colored pencil and graphite on paper, 69-1/8 x 84 inches
Mark Lombardi, Charles Keating, ACC, and Lincoln Savings, ca. 1978-90 (5th Version), 1995. Colored pencil and graphite on paper, 31-3/4 x 46-1/4 inches
ARTFORUMx delineates the history of Artforum magazine in visual form, revealing the number and size of advertisements that have appeared within its pages from June 1962 to the Summer 2010 edition. Each issue has been catalogued and reproduced in a uniquely distilled form. Red rectangles represent magazine content and black areas stand in for advertisements. The books in this expansive set display visual echos of constructivist graphic experiments and minimalist visual art, while diagramming the base level of the economics of publishing, the ebb and flow of the market art or otherwiseover the last 48 years. The first part of the project consists of reprints of each issue of Artforum, scaled to 8.25 inch square (the original trim is 10.25). The cover identifies which issue is being reproduced, while the cover graphic illustrates the ratio of content to advertising found in each issue. Placed on a single-level bookshelf, these 483 issues measure approximately 22 feet (6.7 meters) long. As each spine incorporates the cover graph, a view of the front of the shelf provides a quick snapshot of the growth not only of the size of the magazine but the relative advertisement to content ratio as well. The volumes are intended to be read by viewers, and thus are accessible to hand, not presented behind glass. The second part of the project consists of six hardcover summary volumes, each 7 inch square and ~100 pages long. The first five volumes present reductions of each issue to a grid of red and black squares on a single page, essentially a page plan of that issue. The sixth volume is an extended bar-chart of the contents of the magazines along with a representation of the contemporaneous rise and fall of the Dow Jones Composite Index. The third part of the project is a foil of sorts, allowing for the introduction of the first two parts into an exhibition context. Here, 177 spreads of the March 2007 issue are rendered, perversely, in watercolour with the already introduced schema of red and black squares.
Allan Sekula Panorama. Mid-Atlantic, November 1993, from Fish Story 198995
Allan Sekula Doomed Fishing Village of Ilsan, September 1993, from Fish Story 198995
Allan Sekula Remnants of a Movie Set. Abandoned Shipyard. Los Angeles Harbor. Terminal Island, California. January 1993, from Fish Story 198995