Shopping & Extreme Pleasures

Shopping & Extreme Pleasures

Vol 24 no 2, 2004


Has art become just another consumer product? Relationship of art to retail and porn eg in the work of James Guppy, Jose da Silva. Also the Auckland Triennial reviewed. Co-editor Helen Grace


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Flatness Packed

Alex Taylor, feature

While the idea of modern and contemporary art are located in a fairly nebulous discursive realm, the notion of modern or contemporary lifestyle (the two seem, in fact, interchangeable) are very much a part of the familiar rhetoric of consumer spending. No Nonsense Return Policy (2003), Pat Foster and Jen Berean's installation at BUS Gallery, documented six miss-assembled items of IKEA furniture and dissect the curious aesthetic cycles that drive the commercial products in both realms. Taylor looks at this work and others which are focused on drawing attention to the formal and ideological intersections between modernism and the stuff of homes and home decoration.



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