![]() The Newsroom looks into hacks and fabricated ‘news fictions’ where deception or provocation has interfered with the media landscape, and opened up for discussion and debate. Zone 1: The Newsroom and Zone 2: Guantanamo Bay Museum for Art and History. The exhibition is organised into two principal areas created in close collaboration with the exhibition designer Ruben Pater. Whether it be Trump’s midnight tweets or the exposure of the totality of the surveillance state through Snowden’s actions and information unveiled by Wikileaks, it is clear that the critical role of “do it yourself” media politics is as relevant today as ever.Īrabian Street Artists – Homeland is Not a Series (2015) (graffiti translation: “Homeland is Racist”) Tactical Media was the first to combine the power of art, the tricks of the PR and advertising world, and an experimental approach to digital media, to mount hit-and-run interventions in the media sphere.Īs If will show how the legacies of this DIY media movement remain all around us. Many of the high speed media interventions in the show are to a degree legacies of ‘Tactical Media’: a cultural and political movement that flourished briefly in the late 90s. Curated by David Garcia and Annet Dekker, in collaboration with Ian Alan Paul.Īs well as acting as a timely reflection on the nature of truth in a time filled with fake news, misinformation, and tactical propaganda, the show also serves a historical purpose. At the heart of As If is the desire to address one of today’s most urgent political issues: a radical shift in the boundary between fiction and reality in public discourse, in a world increasingly governed by ‘post-truth’ politics.įramer Framed is pleased to announce the opening of the next exhibition, As If: The Media Artist as Trickster, on 20 January 2017. It shows the artist as trickster, as a ‘dark jester’, using a variety of hoaxes, hacks and ruses to reveal the hidden workings of power structures and the possibility of alternative futures. Exhibition: As If - The Media Artist as Trickster The exhibition As If: The Media Artist as Trickster focuses on politically inspired media art that uses deception in all its forms. ![]() Necessary, a present and powerful force in all our lives.Instragram Facebook Instragram YouTube Twitter LinkedInĪs If - the media artist as trickster. our exhibitĪttempts to evoke and waken the trickster as something relevant and The trickster thrusts us into chaos, thus rejuvenating ourĬreativity and helping us to re-imagine our culture. Often we cling to the belief that life should proceed in a logicalĪnd orderly fashion, determined by the rule of laws and accepted social As a significant catalyst for change, the trickster can right wrongs by subversive action, manoeuvring across boundaries, under the very nose of the power structures in place. She, or he upsets the status quo, thus keeping society from becoming staid and complacent. The trickster’s role is to disrupt the established order of things, creating chaos with intelligent intent. ![]() In all the world cultures, the trickster is a recurring theme in folklore, usually depicted as an animal, god, goddess, spirit, or human. ![]()
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