Month: April 2015
Homeland: Jimena Sarno – May 2 through July 12, 2015 @ Grand Central Art Center
OPENING RECEPTION – WITH SPECIAL PERFORMANCE MAY 2 from 7-10PM Jimena Sarno’s video and sound installation Homeland investigates power relations, surveillance, security culture and the urban landscape as a zone of conflict. Inspired by the questions in the American citizenship application form N-400, the work interrogates what constitutes a good citizen and what defines […]
Mediations on Digital Labor: xtine burrough – May 2 through July 12, 2015 @ Grand Central Art Center
OPENING RECEPTION MAY 2 from 7-10PM Mediations on Digital Labor began with a hijacking of the Amazon.com Mechanical Turk website (Murk.com) for a critical, poetic, and alternative practice: Artist xtine burrough hired the Turkers to pause from physical labor. As a play on the Mturk model, for which an industrial-sized, global workforce is paid less […]