Carey Young
#Photographe
- Exposition
The Talent Show at The Henry
In recent years, television’s «reality» shows and talent competitions, along with Web-based social media, have pioneered new models of cultural participation that offer people a conflicted chance at fame. At the same time, governments worldwide have asserted vast new powers of surveillance, putting unwitting «participants» on an entirely different stage. Against this backdrop, The Talent Show, examines a range of complicated relationships that have emerged between artists, audiences, and participants in light of the competing desires for notoriety and privacy that mark our present cultural moment. For almost half a century, artists have modeled and exploited these desires and dramatized the complex dynamics that surround them, often engaging people to participate in their work—both ... - Exposition
Memento Park - Carey Young
Cornerhouse, in conjunction with Eastside Projects, Birmingham and mima, Middlesbrough, presents a major touring solo show by acclaimed artist Carey Young. This exhibition, reconfigured for each venue, surveys the artist's investigations of language, rhetoric and performance. The show features a newly commissioned video work Memento Park (2010), alongside a number of key video works and recent photographic, text and telephone works.
Memento Park (2010) extends and reframes Young's interests in performance, politics and leftist ideas. Filmed in a statue park in Budapest, which contains a large collection of monumental, Soviet-era statues containing in poses of 'suspended animation', we see the figures surrounded by bustling contemporary life passing by outside the park, which undercuts the statues&#...
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In recent years, television’s «reality» shows and talent competitions, along with Web-based social media, have pioneered new models of cultural participation that offer people a conflicted chance at fame. At the same time, governments worldwide have asserted vast new powers of surveillance, putting unwitting «participants» on an entirely different stage. Against this backdrop, The Talent Show, examines a range of complicated relationships that have emerged between artists, audiences, and participants in light of the competing desires for notoriety and privacy that mark our present cultural moment. For almost half a century, artists have modeled and exploited these desires and dramatized the complex dynamics that surround them, often engaging people to participate in their work—both ...
Cornerhouse, in conjunction with Eastside Projects, Birmingham and mima, Middlesbrough, presents a major touring solo show by acclaimed artist Carey Young. This exhibition, reconfigured for each venue, surveys the artist's investigations of language, rhetoric and performance. The show features a newly commissioned video work Memento Park (2010), alongside a number of key video works and recent photographic, text and telephone works.
Memento Park (2010) extends and reframes Young's interests in performance, politics and leftist ideas. Filmed in a statue park in Budapest, which contains a large collection of monumental, Soviet-era statues containing in poses of 'suspended animation', we see the figures surrounded by bustling contemporary life passing by outside the park, which undercuts the statues&#...