Cork Midsummer Festival Brochure

DENMARK | ART HAPPENING | TAKE PART
SUPERFLEX – a Contract with the City
TODAY WE DON’T USE
THE WORD ‘RECESSION’
Would you like respite from the doom and gloom?
Does ART allow us to dream of a DIFFERENT WORLD?
Can ART inspire a new ECONOMIC STRATEGY?
What would happen if we took one day off from the
recession?
17 June. ALL DAY
Take ‘recession’ out of your vocabulary for one whole day.
Invent your own new words or phrases as replacements to imagine a new
state of affairs. Drop your alternatives into our ‘register of words’ at City
Hall, Atrium Foyer, Angelsea Street, where you can also receive your own
copy of the Decree to sign ALL DAY 17 JUNE or simply post them online at
www.nationalsculpturefactory.com.
SUPERFLEX is a Danish art collective, founded in 1993 whose interventionist
practice deals with economic markets, power structures, self-organisation
and environmentalism. They understand their artistic practice as a set of
tools, or as an invitation to positive action and participation rather than
in terms of discrete works of art. Viewers often become co-producers,
shifting the focus away from objects to relationships where the artworks
that can be redefined and modified by users. More recently Superflex has
been working with legal contracts, challenging public and private copyright
laws which led to complex legal negotiations. By investigating the function
of a contract, Superflex has created new works which are statements and
proposals and can be understood as political acts re-defining particular
contexts and situations.
Lunchtime Public Talk with SUPERFLEX
Friday 18th June, 1:00 - 2:30pm
Crawford Art Gallery Lecture Theatre, Emmet Place
In association with Crawford College of Art & Design.
Admission Free.
A public talk by SUPERFLEX artists about their art practice and their most
recent project for Cork Midsummer Festival 2010.
‘Today we don’t use the word Recesssion’ is commissioned by the National
Sculpture Factory and Cork Midsummer Festival and is supported by Lord
Mayor Cllr. Dara Murphy and Cork City Council
For more information on this project or SUPERFLEX visit
www.nationalsculpturefactory.com or www.superflex.net
BOOKING & INFO: TEL 021 427 1160 AND www.corkmidsummer.com 13