Delicious Spectacle is proud to present:
No Longer Presidents but Prophets
curated by Brian Barr and Lauren Rice
March 15 – April 5, 2013
No Longer Presidents but Prophets explores Patti’s Smith’s “new breed”, in relation to French
philosopher Jacques Ranciere’s notion of the Politics of Aesthetics and the
Aesthetics of Politics. In much critical dialog an opposition is set between art
becoming life and art as art, form and context. This exhibition brings together
8 artists who, through their work, explore critical aesthetics politically with
their subversive use of craft and material, or engage with socio-political
content aesthetically. The title of the
exhibition, No Longer Presidents but
Prophets, evokes a romantic longing for transformation, reconnection and
change in relation to the mediators of experience and culture, either political
or aesthetic. Seeking a way out of the dead end of Post-modernity and it’s
simplification of signs as empty vessels void of meaning, and content
production as an exhausted field where all that is left to do is reshuffle the
deck, curators Brian Barr and Lauren Rice combine a group of artists who seem at
once aesthetically different and yet similar. They seem as different and yet
similar, perhaps, as the metaphors used in Patti Smith’s poetry and the aesthetic
theory of Jacques Ranciere. All of the artists included in No Longer Presidents but Prophets embrace the liminal space between
form and content, meaning and experience, maker and viewer, by aestheticizing
politics or politicizing aesthetics.
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