COMME des MARXISTS -- White Columns, New York 2013 / Performa, 2013
Cat Walk - White Columns, New York / Peroforma 2013
Intallation view - White Columns, New York
SNOWDEN MARX SECURITY
snowdenmarx.gov
DATA MINING
MAINWAY - a big drag net data collection
ENRICHMENT DATA
METADATA
CONTACT CHAIN DIAGRAM
SOCIAL NETWORKING ANALYSIS
DATA COLLECTING
MARX SNOWDEN SECURITY - see here
The N.S.A. uses even computer programs to generate their big amounts of code words that are usually written together and appear in capital letters. I used some of these highly inspiring and significant terms like MAINWAY – the total amount of all captured gross data by the USA – or TEMPORA, the same secret dragnet operation but carried out by the British – and applied them onto the relatively hard to find and seldom used black safety jackets with reflective stripes worn by security firm laborers. This series is simply called MARX SNOWDEN SECURITY. Apart of N.S.A. code words that thanks to Edward Snowden where leaked to the media, I also included the names of the US and British information gathering agencies, the N.S.A and the GCHQ, the British equivalent and collaborator of the American intelligence agency.
KARL MARX VISIST DAVID ZWIRNER ON 20TH STERET, BLINKY PALERMO, LATE WORKS …
It is a simplistic common place that Marx is associated with the economically lower segments of our society thought his analysis concerns all strata of society. Given the fact that art really knows no limits, it is also an economic platform catering to the richest and most privileged segments of our society and its fairytale end of collecting and art consumption. In the recent decade or so a new class a art dealership has established itself very visibly with a multitude of grandiose large and impressive spaces that spread out over the richest global capitals in USA, Europe and Asia. These new international enterprises are primarily showcasing the really expensive art of mostly living artist with global name recognition and spectacular pricing for the really, really rich to compete for. David Zwirner is part of this mega gallery complex with an additional space in London. When I visited his just newly opened stunningly beautiful second or third space in New York that could rival with the looks and size of a museum on 20th street, I saw Late Works by Blinky Palermo and Early works by Richard Serra that inspired me for some fashion work with this title.
For my works on Palermo, a German painter who died very young in the 1970s and left only a small body of works, I silk screened some of the color combinations and designs I saw at the gallery on Japanese fine cotton and silk. Some of the fabrics were reworked as simple drapery to give the impression of canvases. Playing witth the original title of Palermo’s artworks the works got the titles KARL MARX VISIST DAVID ZWIRNER ON 20TH STERET, BLINKY PALERMO, LATE WORKS, The enigma of Karl, 1976/2013; or …. Who knows the beginning of the revolution and who knows the end, 1976/2013. KARL MARX VISIST DAVID ZWIRNER ON 20TH STERET, BLINKY PALERMO, LATE WORKS, Manhattan Marxism, 1976/2013 draws on the painting Manhattan and is made into 70s style pants and mini skirts which revealed that proximity of the painter’s pallet to the colors of his time. The silk screen printing of the silk foulards were taken from a drawing series “Untitled (for Barbette), 1976 and was named …Untitled, (For Rosa Luxenburg), 1976 / 2013, the German revolutionary who was assassinated in Berlin in 1919. With the exception of the foulards, each individual work had the rather long titles and the orignal art work printed on the pieces as if a commercial logo.
Production assitance: NIckolas Calabrese
durging the cat walk - these safty jacket work was used each day in a different way- november 3rd,.. they all went together on the walk. November 4th, SNOWDEN MARX SECURITY agents went to take the SNOWDENMARX.GOV people into custody.
modeing: Brandon Johnson , Matthew HIggs, Pacco Marcial, Yvannoe Kruger et alter
SNOWDEN MARX SECURITY, ENRICHMENT DATA, 2013
Production: NIckolas Calabrese, modelling Matthew Higgs, taking into custody SNOWDENMAX.GOV model Constance Walsh
Pacco Marscial doing the smame with Model /artist Hunt
