Fashion collaborations, streaming, NFTs, and immersive installations: such mediums are transforming the ever-slippery relationship between art, commodification, and entertainment. The group exhibition «ALL I EAT IN A DAY», curated by Giovanni Carmine in collaboration with artist Cory Arcangel, humorously explores the growing spectacle of contemporary art formats. It combines artificial worlds of experience, advertising aesthetics, Zoom calls, and classical art history.
How do we consume art today? What media contexts do artworks exist within? Can we tell art from entertainment, do hype cycles work? The show features works which play with mediums that are on the cusp of being regarded as serious for the field of contemporary art. Cory Arcangel, who has been exploring internet phenomena and pop culture since the 2000s, and started in the field of contemporary art with a then suspect form – net art – will occupy the Kunst Halle with an oversized video installation in the style of an immersive Picasso light show. Emily Sundblad will connect us via Zoom with a classic painting stored in a collection, while Jayson Musson, accompanied by a puppet, narrates his very own version of art history, sitcom-style. Laurel Schwulst teleports us into an airplane seat with a homemade HTML site mimicking an airplane media network, while Sanko GameCorp © re-animates long forgotten intellectual property in the age of crypto. Along with other contributors and artifacts, «ALL I EAT IN A DAY» invites us to critically, yet playfully, question media and consumer habits.
Curated by Cory Arcangel and Giovanni Carmine
with
Cory Arcangel X Pablo Picasso
Bernadette Corporation X Supreme
Gabriele Garavaglia
Barbara Kruger
Jayson Musson
Laura Owens
Sanko GameCorp ©
Laurel Schwulst
Emily Sundblad
and more
The exhibition «ALL I EAT IN A DAY» is supported by Ernst und Olga Gubler-Hablützel Stiftung and the Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA). Special thanks to Lisson Gallery and Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, Harley Davidson St.Gallen and The North Face with Yves Klein Archive.