E' stata avviata una collaborazione fra Art21, Performa e l'artista Barbara Kruger per la realizzazione di un lavoro video-installativo nel Lower East Side di New York City.
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While sharing her earliest influences and what led her to become an artist, Kruger explains the origins of her Performa 17 Commission, Untitled (Skate), a site-specific installation at Coleman Skatepark in New York City’s Lower East Side.
“Money talks. Whose values?” says Kruger, quoting some of the panels installed in the skatepark. “These are just ideas in the air and questions that we ask sometimes—and questions that we don’t ask but should ask."
To see the debut film, please click here!
About the Performa Commission:
Barbara Kruger has been employing media effects and strategies to create her own political and social messages around consumerism, mass media, and feminism on billboards, buses, newspapers, buildings, and parks for the past four decades. Her instantly recognizable—and frequently appropriated—visual style of delivering highly charged, terse phrases in white Futura Bold font over red blocks has radiated its influence on other visual artists, graphic design, mass media, and high fashion streetwear.
For the Performa 17 Biennial, Kruger broadcasted messages engaging issues of and ideas about power, desire, adoration, contempt, and capital all over New York City: on a billboard in Chelsea, on MetroCards distributed across four subway stations, on a yellow school bus, in a storefront shop in SoHo, and in one of New York’s most popular skate park underneath the Manhattan Bridge.
