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The Stupid Generation

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Laura Buckley, Amanda Coogan, Ellen Druwe, Hiroki Ebihara, Dennis Graef, The H*E*R*D Group, Japanther: Ian Vanek / Matt Reilly, Franziska Metzger, Ingo Mittelstaedt, Aki Nagasaka, Justin Rancourt / Chuck Yatsuk, Declan Rooney, Per Olaf Schmidt, Iris Selke, Till Steinbrenner / Lotte Linder, Malte Struck, Doreen Uhlig, Herma Auguste Wittstock, Viola Yesiltac, Walter Zurborg and more.

Opening January 16th 2009 at 6.00pm
Exhibition continues until February 6th 2009 (By Appointment Only)

Curated by Eunhye Hwang & Declan Rooney

“ I am not this body. I am pure energy soaring about everywhere”
George Harrison 1967

Yes we are critical, often hypercritical because this is how we have been taught to be and this is how we choose to continue. Often distracted but never truly dumbed or down, what we are ushering in here is something tangible, accessible and auto determined by chance, assimilation, appropriation and sheer hard work.

There is talk of underlying whispers, maybe from beyond the grave or just between studio walls, but here we are being most transparent, poking austerity with our little fingers.

Speaking less of political theatre but more about personal ‘heart on sleeve’ actions, we are hopeful in our appeasement of the late Mr. Jerry Garcia, with our peaceful articulate tones.

Who taught you how to spell ‘contemplative’? ; This is the question we really want to know the answer to.

There is a lot of worldly and self-criticism and indeed some dimensional distinctions involved here as well, but none of it matters much as it’s all just a ride.

Alas we are just bodies, mere physical beings inhabiting this slowly spinning earth. ‘The Stupid Generation’ is just a collection of some of us: an eclectic array (or disarray) of twenty-two individuals, who come together for the first and (most likely) the last time.