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If / Then

Young, Carey (2007) If / Then. [Show/Exhibition]

Type of Research: Show/Exhibition
Creators: Young, Carey
Description:

If / Then is a solo exhibition of mixed media works at the Paula Cooper Gallery New York, then touring to the Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.

This project comprises three elements. Firstly, a series of photographic documentation of staged performances by that explore notions of progress, autonomy and ‘techniques of the self’. The performances are designed to find a middle route between the ritualistic and the absurd involving interaction with found objects and sites in the context of the hyper-accelerated modernization occurring in Dubai.

Secondly, a video work that extends the artist’s interest in training procedures, documenting a creative intervention into the world of telephone coaching, that, in its turn refers, compositionally, to representations of St. Jerome and, conceptually, to Foucauldian notions of power.

Thirdly, a telephone-based work that continues the artist’s exploration of corporate spaces as potential sites of performance, critically reflecting on consumer culture and individual autonomy and exploring the possibility of the virtual space opened up by the telephone constituting a form of institutional portrait.

Your affiliations with UAL: Colleges > London College of Communication
Date: 1 December 2007
Funders: Sharjah Biennial Artist-in-Residence Program
Locations / Venues:
Location
From Date
To Date
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
1 December 2007
12 January 2008
Date Deposited: 03 Dec 2009 23:45
Last Modified: 16 May 2011 11:04
Item ID: 1442
URI: https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/1442

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