SPRING/BREAK Art Show 2018

MARCH 6 TO 12, 2018
4 TIMES SQUARE
FLOOR 22 ROOM #2212
fbook event
(main fbook event)

PRESS:
░ Art News - 1 / Art News - 2
░ ArtNet
░ Hyperallergic
░ Artforum
░ The Daily Beast

POWER IS ABUSE

Artist: Elektra KB *
Curator: Nico Roxe

Power is Abuse is a multidisciplinary solo installation by artist Elektra KB, which consists of site-specific installations and works on fabric that deal with the nature of power, authority and its antagonists. From the prison industrial complex to authority symbols –such as the immigration checkpoint—, adding protest signs as responses and visual cues of shifting power. The artist wishes to explore the meanings and relationships to the concept of power and how it manifests today in society.

The title stems as a synergist response to Jenny Holzer´s phrase “Abuse of power comes as no surprise”. Here, the artist aims to address the problematic of hierarchical structures and how often holding centralized power inevitably suppresses freedom and autonomy.

Using the platform of mythology coexisting with a documentarian and conceptualist approach, the show takes place in the middle of two worlds: the ‘Cathara Autonomous Territory’ and our world. The show ties utopism, political theory, art and activism through a variety of mediums such as: textiles, video, installation and performativity.

Different fiber based works --including protest banners and an artist´s book--, a check-point hut --that will be distributing stateless passports-- and a ´Freedom School’ -- a former office space transformed in a center of political action-education through play—are some of the works included in the show.

* Elektra KB is a Colombian artist, born in Odessa, Ukraine and based in Brooklyn, NY.

Participatory work:

“In the CAT checkpoint you can renounce the allegiance to nation borders and gender borders, chauvinism, patriotism, and fascism. You declare that these concepts don’t define the true existence of the individual and are not a marker for human value.

Due to the rise of systems of oppression via the nation state, the rebels of the Theocratic Republic of Gaia --the Catharas-- have created the Stateless Autonomous passport.

Everybody who attends SPRING/BREAK Art Show will be eligible to receive a CAT passport at the checkpoint in the 22nd floor for FREE. By obtaining the passport you choose to become a de facto global citizen.”

MORE ABOUT THE ARTIST WORKS:
░ C.A.T. Checkpoint
░ Protest Signs
░ Book of Bodies Of Water
░ Bodies Of Water INTERFERENCE
░ Freedom School