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GENERAL IDEA
General Idea filled the ceiling of the MoMA with Magi© Bullets. Their temporary installation became an edition. Because the individual Magi© Bullets lost helium over time, the idea of them as being exhibited objects was dispersed like the helium itself. Instead, they were taken away, like souvenirs, and spread throughout the world by the visitors to the exhibition. what remains gallery employed a few hundred balloons from the Magi© Bullet edition, using them as a pioneering form of shifting control system over a group exhibition. The inflated projectiles were, once more, filled with helium, ‚infecting‘ the ceiling like a virus within the non-curated space of the entire building – a form of parasitic counterpoint to each exhibited work. Signs drew the visitors‘ attention in a labyrinthine path through a disconcerting aspect of contemporary art production: The constant pursuit of attention. For us, in contrast to General Idea, it‘s less about the fleeting moment of an exhibition and more the creation of a situation which reflects the dynamics of the art world. Our intervention, therefore, sought not to be understood in terms of a collectable artwork, as might be the case with General Idea. It was an intervention during an event and, as such, an entreaty and proposition to adopt another perspective on art and to question the genesis, sustainability, and essence of our excessive art production, instead of the passive consumption of sensations.
Artist Talk
August 28, 5 pm
WHAT REMAINS GALLERY would like to thank the following artists for their participation
AI WEI WEI . AKRAM ZATAARI . ALBERT HIEN . ANDREI MOLODKIN . ANDREW BLACKLEY . ARTHUR PAUL . BILL DRUMMOND . CATHY WILKES . CHRISTIAN PHILIPP MÜLLER . DANH VO . DANIEL BUREN . DAVID BLITZ . DUNCAN CAMPBELL . DUSTIN YELLIN . FRANZ LANDSPERSKY . FRIEDRICH KIESLER . FERNANDO SANCHEZ CASTILLO . GENERAL IDEA . IAN KIAER . KERSTIN BRÄTSCH . LAURE PROUVOST . LAWRENCE WEINER . LIAM GILLICK . LUTZ BACHER . MARKUS BENESCH . RICHARD JACKSON . ROY LICHTENSTEIN . SCOTT KING . SOFIA MONTENEGRO . TOBIAS MADISON . TOBIAS REHBERGER . WALID RAAD .