The Shopping Show
@ Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Wednesday, February 24th, from 7PM - 9:30PM
Shopaholics, rethink and rejoice! Presented in the aisles of THE FREE STORE, Gallery 400’s newest (non)commercial wing, here’s a film/video treatise on the joys and terrors of cash and commerce, in two parts. Beginning in the mid-80s improvised music / language poetry / experimental dance scene (!) of the East Village and “featuring” John Zorn, Arto Lindsay, Abigail Child, Christian Marclay and over 2500 synch-sound cuts in fifteen minutes, Henry Hills‘ Money is a montage-barrage time capsule view of $ociety’$ greate$t ill$. With this new-found insight into the essence of bling, German media essayist Harun Farocki takes the lesson one step further by offering us a systematic look at the how-to’s oflightening up your wallet. He’s talking shopping malls and shopping mall journals, consulting firms and purchase analysts, Las Vegas mall conventions and consumer-behavior laboratories; in The Creators of Shopping Worlds, Farocki lets the infrastructure speak for itself, a self-indictment of how spontaneity can be incitement. Friendly Shoppers, You Must Act Now! Don’t Wait Another Minute! It’s THE SHOPPING SHOW, a one-time-only-everything-must-go-impulse-purchase-for-your-recession-bank-account-mind, a media deal that you simply can’t afford to miss…
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