Following her desperate 'shopping trip' to New York in December 02 to try to make things better, UK artist Ange Taggart of My Dads Strip Club is making a return visit to the USA to coincide with America going to war.
http://www.mydadsstripclub.com/duanereade.htm
This is part of a year long series of works she is producing which brings together groups of artists who work in the commercial zone and comment on the excesses of consumer culture in relation to the world order and global economy.
Over the next 3 months she will be visiting major cities in the US and UK connecting and communicating with artists to create, discuss and promote work that feeds a culture of resistance.
In March and April 03 the activity will be focused in the USA where she is joined by UK artist James Leadbitter - The Vacuum Cleaner and USA artist/filmmaker Andrew Lynn from Breathing Planet. They will be working with participants to perform in shops and on the streets of Chicago as part of Version03 festival.
http://www.versionfest.org
They'll also be meeting up with the UK artist Denis Buckley in New York and presenting work together at the heart of the financial district of New York.
The performances in Chicago and New York are backed up by a series of guest lectures in galleries, arts schools, universities and artist projects to present and discuss works by a group of UK/USA artists that create and promote a culture of resistance.
10-17 March New School University New York 27 March 03 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago 28 March 03 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago 2 March 03 School of the Art Institute of Chicago 5 April 03 1/Quarterly Gallery Chicago 7 April 03 16Beavergroup New York 9 April 03 Hunter College New York 10 April 03 Parsons School of Design New York 10 April 03 Drama Department New York University 10 April 03 Wooster Collective New York
In May the attention shifts to the UK when six USA artists fly over to team up with UK artists to create the UK Stop Shopping Tour.
From the 8-20 May 03 the group will be presenting and performing in UK citycentres in Derby, Nottingham, Newcastle and London.
Highlights will include street preaching, Sunday services followed by congregation-shopping, advice on how to produce hazardous biological chemical and radiological weapons from popular branded goods, consumption awareness rituals and disfunctional shopping trips. All this is backed up by forums to engage and meet the artists as well as a series of lectures in universities and arts establishments.
Artists include
Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Retroactive Logo Distribution How and Why Conglomco Whirl-Mart My Dads Strip Club Richard Dedomanici Jon Burgerman Nato Space Hijackers The Vacuum Cleaner
This is not an exclusive event. The tour is a chance to reach out and meet others and join together to develop possibilities for the future. Those interested in supporting or joining us please get in contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
More information can be found at
http://www.mydadsstripclub.com
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