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HERD INSTINCT 360° A three Sunday afternoon situation from November 2005 to January 2006 at Andrew Kreps Gallery Cult action, group therapy, corporate brain washed consumer combatants. Together we feel good. Crowd behavior: removing the inhibitions of the individual, no personal responsibility. Yet community is pressure. HERD INSTINCT 360° is an invitation to a group of people to be, see, discuss, and listen to talks about community. Community - the formerly functional organization of people into pockets of activity, the dead end possibility of the communist collective manifestations in Russia and China, the unspecific and affirming notions of community some works of art rest upon, the increasing sophistication of corporate communal behavior and outreach, the Hippie yearnings for a return to the primal gathering, the exclusive clubs building a 'We-They identity' paving the way for local and global gated communities, the projection of inherent goodness and empowerment from 'productive get-togethers', from the tiniest family unit to the nationalistic one, the pretense of equality. What was to stir action now makes stale. Let's have negative group expectations? Yet what experience can be outside of it? Community as communication as co-appearance - Stay Connected. Fia Backström - 'HERD INSTINCT 360º' (Introduction to #1, #2, #3) #1 27th of November 2005 Talk/Performance: Michael Taussig - 'Running Cattle Where Mountains Become Islands' Liam Gillick - 'Construction of One' Inserted work: Olaf Breuning #2 11th of December 2005 Talk/Performance: Pia Lindman - 'CORPCOMM' Sylvere Lotringer - Un-Melting Crowds Inserted work: Johanna Billing - 'Missing Out' Luke Fowler - 'What you see is where you're at' #3 22nd of January 2006 Talk/Performance: Jeremy Varon - 'Agents of Necessity: Group Logic and 1960s Militants' Arthur Jaffa - 'On the Perfomance Aspect of the Black Panthers, via Martin Luther King Jr., South L.A. Gangs to Techno music from Detroit through Austria and Germany' Inserted work: Corita Kent serigraphs, generously lent by Julie Ault Community forging posters by Fia Backström - SDS slogans super-imposed over images by seven artists represented by Andrew Kreps Gallery: Ricci Albenda, Peter Coffin, Roe Ethridge, Jonah Freeman, Jamie Isenstein, Ruth Root and Cheyney Thompson Documentation Herd Instinct in memoriam at Greene Naftali Download a publication (17mb):
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