As much as I appreciate the collective’s culture jamming initiatives, I don’t know that their putative premise ever bears meaningful fruit.
Carriage Trade gallery
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Revealing the Prickly Side of Imperial “Soft Power”
A collaboration between Carriage Trade and Rectangle, Hearts and Minds analyzes the deceptive repackaging of Western imperialism.
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A 1960s Sci-Fi Series Takes on Renewed Relevance
A group show featuring the likes of Jenny Holzer and Harun Farocki frames the dystopian world of 1960s British TV show The Prisoner as a harbinger of 21st-century surveillance capitalism.
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A View into the Living Room of America
If there ever was one American psychic space, soul, or ethos, it forked a long time ago into divergent streams you can see in this show.
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The Failures of 1970s Suburban Life
In the film Over the Edge (1979), the worst fears of a suburban planned community come true when the teenage residents of the fictional town of New Granada attack a town meeting being held to discuss just exactly what went wrong with the violent, angst-filled youth of their town.