The Big Bad World
This press release announces FUCKTHATGALLERY's group show The Big Bad World while turning the exhibition itself into an allegory of confinement. The gallery is described as a prison, asylum, ward, and white room where art is separated from society, neutralized, consumed, and converted into merchandise. The repeated phrase "The Big Bad World" becomes both brand and cage, overwhelming the text until institutional critique turns into verbal claustrophobia. Page two visually intensifies the argument with highlights, strike-throughs, red circling, and black redactions, making the document itself feel marked up, censored, and attacked. The final claim is the sharpest: it would be better to destroy the exhibition than produce illusions of freedom within confinement.
- DATE:
- October 15, 2009
- DOCUMENT TYPE:
- Essay / Critique
- NAMED ARTISTS / FIGURES:
- LG Williams; Lani E'Iolani; Laupahoehoe Beth Punahou; Nanakuli Mililani Olomana; Fivos Sakalis; Meredith Dunn; B. F. Skinner
- INSTITUTIONS / VENUES:
- FUCKTHATGALLERY; Waikiki; The Estate of LG Williams; The Big Bad World Galleries
- KEYWORDS:
- gallery as prison; white room as cage; art separated from society; neutralized and consumed; Big Bad World as confinement metaphor; art converted to merchandise; group show as allegory