----/ The Squid List /-------------------------------------------------- Frank Garvey's Children's Crusade
Saturday Oct. 1 7-11pm free ----/ Event Description /----------------------------------------------- Opening reception Saturday October 1 7-11pm Varnish Gallery 77 Natoma St. betw. 1st & 2nd & Mission & Howard Frank Garvey's CHILDREN'S CRUSADE is an exhibit of paintings and robots dealing with the maintenance of oppressive economic systems and slavery in the world's richest places - the so-called advanced capitalist, "developed" world. In these countries, a middle-class culture sits astride the twin towers of super-rich bourgeoisie and ultra-oppressed proletariat like a blanket of soothing obfuscation, helping disguise the murderous deformations of personality that allow crack addicts to murder their friends and billionaires to murder whole nations. Garvey's work rips the social veneer from the realities of life in America, showing the underlying stress lines that we spend so much energy and money to avoid... using whores, junkies, beggars and thieves as metaphors for the alienation of all of us in this collapsing empire. The CHILDREN'S CRUSADE title references the rise of a new danger in the world, a true culmination of the robotic red-light district of our time. In the United States and around the world, the working class and super-exploited toilers are immersed in a bath of right-wing religio-fascism from cradle to grave. Thus we become cannon fodder to the religious wars of our modern-day enlightened ruling classes, who spread this fanaticiscm to distract us from progressive and socialist mass movements, considered far more dangerous to the billionaires. As in pre-Nazi Germany in the 1920's, the fascist distraction turns around and bite the hand that fed, coiffed and manicured it, even unto the advent of a new darkness that will make WWII look like Disneyland... ----/ Venue Info /------------------------------------------------------ Varnish Fine Art 77 Natoma St. San Francisco 415-222-6131 http://www.varnishfineart.com between 1st & 2nd & Mission & Howard St. ----/ Additional Info /------------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 415.701-0686 http://www.omnicircus.com ----/ The Squid List Admin /--------------------------------------------- The Squid List, a tentacle of Laughing Squid http://laughingsquid.org/squidlist/ subscribe, unsubscribe, change your email address or change your subscription options: http://lists.laughingsquid.org/mailman/listinfo/squidlist/ Frequently Asked Questions & Submission Guidelines Squid List FAQ: http://laughingsquid.org/squidlist/faq.html The Squid List Online Calendar: http://laughingsquid.org/squidlist/calendar/ The Squid List RSS Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/squidlist ----/ Laughing Squid /-------------------------------------------------- Laughing Squid http://laughingsquid.com underground art and culture from San Francisco and beyond Laughing Squid Web Hosting http://laughingsquid.net friendly, dependable and secure web hosting services for artists, individuals, bloggers, non-profits and small businesses Copyright (c) 2005 Laughing Squid. All rights reserved.
