Systemic Risk
dal 16/2/2012 al 15/3/2012
Segnalato da
16/2/2012
Systemic Risk
NurtureArt Gallery (new location), New York
This group show employing games, social behavior, language, and cultural recognition, reveals how our familiar and trusted systems are in a process of breaking down and being discredited.
curated by Jonathan Durham
NURTUREart is pleased to present Systemic Risk, an exhibition featuring works by Daniel Bejar, Sujin Lee, Laura Napier and Risa Puno.
In financial terms, systemic risk refers to a domino effect of cascading failures, leading to the total, irreversible collapse of an entire system or market. The artists in this exhibition work to reorganize specific parameters of a given system in order to point to phenomenological behavior, inequality, misperception, and in some cases complete lack of understanding.
Daniel Bejar, Sujin Lee, Laura Napier and Risa Puno point toward conditions in contemporary life wherein a transition to a less optimal equilibrium is inevitable and often irreversible. This transition is key to the context of a selection of works that highlights humorously skewed results, competing agendas, and unfortunate compromises. Employing games, social behavior, language, and cultural recognition, Systemic Risk reveals how our familiar and trusted systems are in a process of breaking down and being discredited.
Image: Daniel Bejar. Daniel Bejar/Destroyer (The Googlegänger), 2009 - ongoing. Search engine intervention, digital prints, dimensions variable.
NurtureArt Gallery
56 Bogart Street - New York
open hours: Thurs through Mon | noon - 6
Free admission